Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist
Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920, Chapter VII
At the program Câmera Aberta at Band on 23 May 1999. O dia que Bolsonaro quis matar FHC, sonegar impostos e declarar guerra civil http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/politica/republica/o-dia-que-bolsonaro-quis-matar-fhc-sonegar-impostos-e-declarar-guerra-civil-8mtm0u0so6pk88kqnqo0n1l69. Gazeta do Povo (10 October 2017).
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist
Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920, Chapter VII
“Can't even find the perfect brush to paint what is going through my mind.”
Drake (1986) Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor
"Brand New," So Far Gone (2009)
“I can't sell myself. And I don't even want to. That's something that's not going to change.”
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Interview in Musician magazine (1987)
Context: Where I feel this has cost me is in the personality situation, where you're expected to be a personality. You not only have to write and record, but you have to go out and sell it. Well, I'm not a salesman, and I'm very bad at selling things. If I had to do that for a living, I'd probably be completely broke. I can't sell myself. And I don't even want to. That's something that's not going to change.
“I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.”
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
Assessment of Wrigley Field shouted during batting practice on October 1, 1932, just prior to Game 3 of the World Series, as recalled by Ruth in a February 1944 interview with Chicago Daily News sports editor John Carmichael; as reproduced in "The Sports Parade" by Braven Dryer, in The Los Angeles Times (February 23, 1944), p. A7; and in Babe Ruth's Called Shot: The Myth and Mystery of Baseball's Greatest Home Run https://books.google.com/books?id=JlOsBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80 (2014) by Ed Sherman, p. 80
Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian
And I look at that and I think, if that is what a woman is supposed to look like, then I must not be one.
From Her Tours and CDs, The Notorious C.H.O. Tour
“I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Source: Gone with the Wind
“I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time. My brain's noisy.”
Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer
Source: Tiger Lily
“You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on.”
Christine Feehan book Dark Destiny
Source: Dark Destiny