Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
Source: Roots : The Saga of an American Family (1976), Ch. 51.
Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
Source: Roots : The Saga of an American Family (1976), Ch. 51.
“Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.”
Jasper Fforde (1961) British novelist
Source: Shades of Grey
“In a universe the size of ours almost anything that can happen, will.”
Larry Niven (1938) American writer
There Is a Tide (p. 201)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)
“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.”
Dan Rather (1931) Journalist, Anchor
“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Nils Bohlin (1920–2002) Swedish inventor
Source: Deathwatch mailarchive http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00869.html
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
“You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 7 (p. 76)
“If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.”
Act I, scene 2, 96, line 176.
Eunuchus
Original: (la) si istuc crederem/sincere dici, quidvis possem perpeti.