Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bites
“If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.”
Source: A Little History of the World (2005), p. 90.
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“Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do—then do it with all your strength.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
This saying is not found in any source before 2010, when it was posted by The Ignorant Fisherman at Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2451682/posts on 15 February. The language is not that of Washington or his time. <br class="br">Misattributed, Spurious attributions
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
you ask. "Well, I'll get more," he says. Just as at cricket, you get more runs. There's no use in the runs, but to get more of them than other people is the game. So all that great foul city of London there, — rattling, growling, smoking, stinking, — a ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore, — you fancy it is a city of work? Not a street of it! It is a great city of play; very nasty play and very hard play, but still play.
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture I: Work, sections 23-24 (1866)
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
Marlen Esparza (1989) boxer
"Olympic boxer Marlen Esparza is ready to fight animal cruelty" http://nbclatino.com/2013/01/29/olympic-boxer-marlen-esparza-is-ready-to-fight-animal-cruelty/, NBCLatino.com (29 January 2013).
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
Twitter post, https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/350753146445893633 (2015-03-03) <br class="br">2010s
“I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Roald Dahl book Matilda
Source: Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...