Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Rochester: [checking his equipment] Shaving cream, brush, razor, smelling salts.”
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)
“There is no death, each of us knows —
it's banal to say.
I'll leave it to others to explain.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
Poem without a Hero (1963)
Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
"The Early Essays".
Without Feathers (1975)
“Half a league half a league
Half a league onward
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade
St. 1
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
Context: Half a league half a league
Half a league onward
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:
'Forward the Light Brigade
Charge for the guns' he said
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants.”
Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager
Crystal Palace 1-1 Arsenal (6 November 2004) http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2004/nov/08/match.sport10?INTCMP=SRCH <br class="br">Interviews <br class="br">Context: It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.
“Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.”
David Brin book The Uplift War
Source: The Uplift War
