April 2, 1775
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/337996
“Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.”
About Men
Fear of Flying (1973)
“A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.”
quoted from Tutti Frutti, p. 75
White, Charles (2003). The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0306805529.
“I'm ready. They hit me hard. I hit them hard. Doesn't matter who hits. What matters is results.”
Steve Schrader (April 13, 2008) "What the NBC microphones picked up: Predator taunting", Detroit Free Press.
To the Chief of the Air Staff (26 August 1940) after the Luftwaffe bombed London, quoted in John Colville, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939-1955 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985), p. 230
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Wheaton, Illinois http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/wheaton-illinois-sep1590-backup-copy.html (September 15, 1990)
In Concert
"Song of the Open Road" — this poem is a parody of "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
“I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon.
~Carter Kane”
Source: The Serpent's Shadow
