“After you've met one hundred and fifty Lord Mayors, they all begin to look the same.”
George V of the United Kingdom (1865–1936) King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India
Attributed
A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982)
“After you've met one hundred and fifty Lord Mayors, they all begin to look the same.”
George V of the United Kingdom (1865–1936) King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India
Attributed
“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”
Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“Anjan Dutta is one of the most interesting persons I have ever met.”
Arin Paul (1980) Indian film director
Washington Bangla Radio http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/121578810-interview-arin-paul-film-maker-doshta-dosh-1010-jyanto-durga-durga-live (2010)
Peter Cook (1937–1995) British architect
As quoted in Daily Express (7 February 1967), and in Tragically I Was an Only Twin : The Complete Peter Cook (2002) by William Cook, p. 58
Context: I drift very easily into becoming E. L. Wisty. I’ve always felt very closely identified with that sort of personality. He is a completely lost creature, he never works, never moves, has no background and suspects everybody is peering at him and trying to get his secrets out of him. I've never met the man; he came out of me. I’d feel a lot easier if I’d met him and imitated him, as a matter of fact.
“I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 4: Beauty
“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Attributed in Lincoln the Lawyer (1906) by Frederick Trevor Hill — Hill noted that he could find no record of whom Lincoln was insulting.
Posthumous attributions
Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993) American theologian
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Festival of Freedom: Essays on Pesah and the Haggadah, p. 3 (2006)