
“I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.”
"Baby Got Back"
subsequently used by Nicki Minaj
Song lyrics, Mack Daddy, 1992
“I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.”
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
No known source in Oscar Wilde's works. Earliest known example of a similar quote comes from a 2001 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.atheism/ZadPWBw-wew/G_3tx370wpoJ (not attributed to Wilde)
Attributed to Wilde on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15736-i-don-t-want-to-go-to-heaven-none-of-my?page=83 some time on or before January 2008.
Bears some resemblance to Machiavelli's deathbed dream https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Disputed.
Disputed
Q magazine, November 1996 issue http://covers.q4music.com/Item.aspx?pageNo=5982&year=1996
Quote
“Oh, you've got a gun? So, you want to pop that?”
"Drop It Like It's Hot" (2004), R&G: The Masterpiece (2004).
... I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist about that. I don't like it as a reader, when I'm reading something. It's not just the elitism of it; it jolts me out of the mode in which I'm reading. I've immersed myself in the world and then when the light goes on I'm supposed to be making some kind of literary comparison to another text. I find I'm pulled out of my kind of fictional world, I'm asked to use my brain in a different kind of way. I don't like that.
Rukeyser, Rebecca. " Kazuo Ishiguro: Mythic Retreat https://www.guernicamag.com/mythic-retreat/" guernicamag.com interview. 1 May 2015.
“If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.”
Respect, later covered by Aretha Franklin.
Song lyrics, Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965)
“Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.”
As quoted in Peter's People (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 28.