“I wish everybody was as nice as I am.”
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012
Variant: I think everybody should like everybody.
“I wish everybody was as nice as I am.”
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Statement about World War II (written in 1943), p. 77
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Quote in 'What is Pop Art? Answers from 8 Painters', in 'Art News' 62, November 1963
1963 - 1967
“I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night
Source: Tender Is the Night
“I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.”
Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian
From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour
“Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
Everybody thinks its true.”
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Train In The Distance
Song lyrics, Hearts and Bones (1983)
Herbert N. Casson (1869–1951) Canadian journalist and writer
Herbert N. Casson in 1920s, cited in: Morgen Witzel (2003), Fifty Key Figures in Management. p. 39
Witzel commented: "Herbert Casson regarded Cadbury in the 1920s as one of the best-run companies in Britain, if not the world, and summed up the key to its success very succinctly." In that time Edward Cadbury was managing director at Cadbury.
1920s-1940s