“I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.”
Mark Twain book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865)
Source: Bone Crossed
“I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.”
Mark Twain book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865)
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
Kiss That Frog
Song lyrics, Us (1992)
Billie Joe Armstrong (1972) American singer and guitarist
Reported in Matt Doeden, Green Day: Keeping Their Edge (2006), p. 23
“Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Outlaw Blues
“If you don't tell people about your success, they probably won't know about it.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Trump: How to Get Rich (2004), p. xiii
2000s
Carole King (1942) Nasa
Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1960), Co-written with Gerry Goffin
Song lyrics, Singles
J.E. Gordon (1913–1998) Materials scientist
Source: Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978), Chapter 15, A Chapter of accidents
Context: In the course of a long professional life spent, or misspent, in the study of the strengths of materials and structures, I have had cause to examine a lot of accidents, many of them fatal. I have been forced to the conclusion that very few accidents just "happen" in a morally neutral way. Nine out of ten accidents are caused, not by more or less abstruse technical effects, but by old-fashioned human sin — often verging on plain wickedness. Of course I do not mean the more gilded and juicy sins like deliberate murder, large-scale fraud, or Sex. It is squalid sins like carelessness, idleness, won't-learn-and-don't-need-to-ask, you-can't-tell-me-anything-about-my-job, pride, jealousy and greed that kill people.
“I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.”
John Prescott (1938) Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007)
BBC Radio 4 Today program interview (12 April 1996)