Susan Cooper (1935) English fantasy writer
Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), Silver on the Tree (1977), Chapter 10 “The Rose-Garden” (p. 146)
Bernie Ecclestone, discussing Danica Patrick, the female driver who finished fourth in the 2005 Indianapolis 500 race. (Los Angeles Times, 6/21/05, p. A-18.)
Susan Cooper (1935) English fantasy writer
Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), Silver on the Tree (1977), Chapter 10 “The Rose-Garden” (p. 146)
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Captain William Frederickson, p. 100
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Variant: Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“You don't like those ideas? I got others!”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
full lecture The Medium is the Message 1977 part 1 v3 around 14:23 into ABC TV, Monday Conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaH51F4HBw&feature=player_embedded
1970s
Attila the Stockbroker (1957) punk poet, folk punk musician and songwriter
"My Wardrobe", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
"Keeping Hope Alive" http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/oprahshow1_ss_20061018/10, The Oprah Winfrey Show (18 October 2006) <br class="br">2006
“All was taken away from you: white dresses,
wings, even existence.
Yet I believe you,
messengers.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"On Angels"
Context: All was taken away from you: white dresses,
wings, even existence.
Yet I believe you,
messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out,
a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts,
you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams.