Bert McCracken (1982) American musician
On the oddest experience while at a party, reported in WENN staff (December 6, 2007) "The Things They Say", World Entertainment News Network.
Source: Bitter Blood
Bert McCracken (1982) American musician
On the oddest experience while at a party, reported in WENN staff (December 6, 2007) "The Things They Say", World Entertainment News Network.
“A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
“The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.”
Stefan Zweig book The Post Office Girl
The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)
“Ah good, there's so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages.”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
Said while presenting a Duke of Edinburgh Award to a student. When informed that the young man was going to help out in Romania for six months, he asked if the student was going to help the Romanian orphans and was told that he was not, as quoted in "Duke under fire for Romanian orphans 'joke'" http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=255&id=998522006 in The Scotsman (8 July 2006) <br class="br">2000s
“Ah, Lord, if I doubt You, it is perhaps because You hide Yourself so well.”
Jack McDevitt book The Hercules Text
Source: The Hercules Text (1986), Chapter 4 (p. 63)
“An option hides where we don't want it to hide.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 184
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer
As quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist
Sometimes attributed to Ackerman this actually originates with Nicolas Chamfort, as quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
Misattributed