Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) Journalist, children's writer
Legends of the old Plantation (1886), "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story".
Legends of the Old Plantation (1886), "How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox".
Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) Journalist, children's writer
Legends of the old Plantation (1886), "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story".
“Badger: The cuss you are.
Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?”
Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter
Source: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter
"Out of the Question" (song) <br class="br">Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Out of the Question" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV2E3q9rUXA (song on YouTube) <br class="br">Song lyrics <br class="br">Source: (+ Performed live, 2017.On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oHVxoA5688
“Don't tell me what I should do until you show me what you can do.”
John Basedow TV Health and Fitness Personality
[Basedow, John, Fitness Made Simple : The Power to Change Your Body, the Power to Change Your Life, 2008, McGraw-Hill, New York, 0071497080, 49]
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
Shock The Monkey
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (IV), Security (1982)
“I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist
“I don't need you to remind me of my age, I have a bladder to do that for me.”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
"Trefusis Returns!" in Paperweight (1993) p. 279.
Originally printed in The Daily Telegraph circa 1990.
1990s
“You don't have to destroy me. Do you?…”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
The Complete Short Stories