Source: The Goose Girl
“What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.”
Variant: I have been to the edge and lived to tell the tale..
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Quoted in Hong Kong's Career Times newspaper (February 6th 2004) http://www.ctgoodjobs.hk/english/article/show_article.asp?category_id=1070&article_id=12825&title=is-hong-kong-investing-enough-in-its-future&listby=date&listby_id=&page=4
Miscellaneous Quotes in the Press (2002-Present)
“It is not too difficult to find people in that country [Ireland] crying over what they have lost.”
It's Sir Mark Tully in UK honors list, 2001
“The trick was forgetting about what she had lost… and learning to go on with what she had left.”
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.”
Often misattributed to but inspired by GK Chesterton:
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
Coraline (2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-12-tyson-retire-talk_x.htm.
On his fans
“I quail,
E'en now, at telling of the tale.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 48
“Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.”
Variant: Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
Source: Choke
