“Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: Just Like Heaven
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: Just Like Heaven
Charles Stross book Halting State
Source: Halting State (2007), Chapter 6, “Elaine: Death or Coffee” (p. 42)
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (1968) Canadian writer
Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Ken Livingstone (1945) Mayor of London between 2000 and 2008
Criticising Londoners who drive 4x4s in an interview with GMTV (broadcast 23 May 2004), as quoted in "Drivers of 4X4s in London are idiots, says Livingstone" by Ross Lydall in Evening Standard (21 May 2004)
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
LKML
June 18, 2007
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/43013fe224f562e0.
2000s, 2007
“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”
David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
“Is that why you didn't call me? Because I'm an idiot?”
Cassandra Clare book City of Glass
Source: City of Glass
“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer
Source: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider