Paul Smith (musician) (1979) English rock singer
From The 5-Minute Interview http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-5minute-interview-paul-smith-singer-446775.html
Paul Smith (musician) (1979) English rock singer
From The 5-Minute Interview http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-5minute-interview-paul-smith-singer-446775.html
“If they do not wish to confer the honour, I am the last person who would wish to receive it.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Remarks after Oxford University voted not to award her an honorary degree. Mail on Sunday (3 February 1985), quoted in John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady (London: Jonathan Cape, 2003), p. 399.
Second term as Prime Minister
“Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.”
River Phoenix (1970–1993) American actor, musician, and activist
Premier (1988)
“And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) Irish song-writer, novelist, and painter
Widow Machree, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Alanis Morissette (1974) Canadian-American singer-songwriter
You Oughta Know
Jagged Little Pill (1995)
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
As quoted by Joseph Jay Deiss in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972) http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1972/5/1972_5_42.shtml.
Frances Hardinge (1973) British children's writer
Source: The Lost Conspiracy
Michele Bachmann (1956) American politician
on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews, October 17, 2008 http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=2203 <br class="br">on whether there are anti-American members of Congress <br class="br">2000s, Hardball Appearance (October 2008)