Li Hongzhi (1951) Chinese religious leader and dissident
Falun Buddha Fa Lectures in United States http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/mgjf.htm
The Taming of the Screw (1983)
Li Hongzhi (1951) Chinese religious leader and dissident
Falun Buddha Fa Lectures in United States http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/mgjf.htm
Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) founder of al-Qaeda
As quoted in "The Most Wanted Man in the World" http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/wosama.html (16 September 2001), Time magazine profile. <br class="br">2000s, 2001
Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 1 “Little Games” section 4 (p. 29)
J. J. Thomson (1856–1940) British physicist
"Cathode rays" http://web.lemoyne.edu/~GIUNTA/thomson1897.html Philosophical Magazine, 44, 293 (1897). <br class="br">Quotes eat me <br class="br">Context: As the cathode rays carry a charge of negative electricity, are deflected by an electrostatic force as if they were negatively electrified, and are acted on by a magnetic force in just the way in which this force would act on a negatively electrified body moving along the path of these rays, I can see no escape from the conclusion that they are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter.
Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894) German physicist
As quoted by Andrew Norton, Dynamic fields and waves (2000) p. 83.
“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer
Part 2, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
““Do you know what this is?
“The floor, Miss?”
“Dust! I read about it—tiny particles of matter.””
Adam Roberts book Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer
Part 2, Chapter 7, “The Investigation Begins” (p. 163).
Jack Glass (2012)
Clement Freud (1924–2009) English broadcaster, writer, politician and chef
The Observer (1964-12-27)
Misattributed to George Bernard Shaw on The West Wing, Season 2, Episode 14: The War At Home. Fictional President Bartlett, smoking a cigarette, spoke the second half of the quote and attributed it to Shaw. His chief of staff disputed whether it was Shaw, and the President concurred.