President Kennedy's 13th News Conferences on June 28, 1961 John Source: F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/Press-Conferences/News-Conference-13.aspx <br class="br">1961
“Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.”
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Comparing the progress of Mac OS X and what would eventually become known as Microsoft's Vista, at the MacWorld San Francisco keynote address (January 2005) http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf05/ <br class="br">2000s
“Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Maneka Gandhi (1956) Indian politician and activist
On poaching of tigers in India, as quoted in "Hunting down the hunter: A dying breed" http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/hunting-down-the-hunter-a-dying-breed-473821.html, The Independent (12 April 2006) <br class="br">2001-2010
“The tiger has arrived at Gap.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Le Moniteur Universel, March 11, 1815.
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Variant: The Emperor has arrived at Fontainbleau.
“Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter’s home.”
Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
“The Lady or The Tiger,'
…
'My lady, the tiger”
Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
Wole Soyinka (1934) Nigerian writer
Janheinz Jahn (trans. Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger) A History of Neo-African Literature (London: Faber, 1968) pp. 265-6.
Explaining, in Berlin in 1964, a criticism of the concept of négritude he had made at a conference in Kampala in 1962.
Context: I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
“the tigers have found me
and I do not care.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: what you were
will not happen again.
the tigers have found me
and I do not care.
