Syd Barrett (1946–2006) English musician
In response to being asked by David Gilmour what he was up to lately during an unexpected reunion in 1975, as written in Nick Mason's Inside Out
Syd Barrett (1946–2006) English musician
In response to being asked by David Gilmour what he was up to lately during an unexpected reunion in 1975, as written in Nick Mason's Inside Out
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 288
Edward Witten (1951) American theoretical physicist
"Edward Witten" interview, Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1992) ed. P.C.W. Davies, Julian Brown
Context: I think one has to regard it as a long term process. One has to remember that String theory, if you choose to date it from the Veneziano model, is already eighteen years old... that quantum electrodynamic theory towards which Planck was heading [in 1900], took fifty years to emerge.
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
"Am I Not Among the Early Risers"
West Wind (1997)
“I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.”
Charlie Sheen (1965) American film and television actor
Piers Morgan Tonight
Quote summary in The Los Angeles Times (2011)
“Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.”
Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour
Act iii, Scene 3
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
“I don't have seventeen-year-old friends.”
Bob Beatty (1955) American-football player (1955-)
Source: Top 10 High School Football Coaches in America, Athlon Sports, 9 August 2013, 3 May 2017 https://athlonsports.com/high-school/top-10-high-school-football-coaches-america,
Richard F. Pettigrew (1848–1926) American politician
Imperial Washington (1922), pp. 345-346 http://books.google.com/books?id=ZKwcAAAAMAAJ&pg=345