Jonathan Miller (1934–2019) British theatre director (born 1934)
Episode two: "Noughts and Crosses".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)
On The Late Show with David Letterman (1994)
Jonathan Miller (1934–2019) British theatre director (born 1934)
Episode two: "Noughts and Crosses".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
Small chatter with George W. Bush in the Oval Office
Newsweek magazine
2000s
“Here Skugg lies snug
As a bug in a rug.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley (September, 1772); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Epistles
“Jack: These last 2 miles were rugged, weren't they?”
Jack Benny (1894–1974) comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
“But to reach…the pinnacle of power, it will be necessary, to climb rugged heights.”
Jose Cecilio del Valle (1777–1996) Honduran politician-
1821
“If you own a rug you own too much.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Widely misattributed to Emerson on the Internet, this quote is actually taken from Alfred North Whitehead's essay "Harvard: The Future" (The Atlantic Monthly, September 1936.)
Misattributed
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
"Harvard: The Future," http://books.google.com/books?id=X3k5AQAAIAAJ&q=%22No+member+of+a+crew+is+praised+for+the+rugged+individuality+of+his+rowing%22&pg=PA266#v=onepage The Atlantic Monthly, September 1936 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/theatlantic/doc/203819851.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE&type=current&date=Sep+1936&author=Alfred+North+Whitehead&pub=The+Atlantic+(1932-1971)&edition=&startpage=260-270&desc=Harvard:+The+future <br class="br">1930s