“Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix, and stay conscious.”
Beth Pearson, "Has Howard got news for Boris?", The Herald (Glasgow), 13 November 2004, p. 15.
Explaining why he quit after a week as a management consultant.
2000s, 2004
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“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”
George Orwell The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), Part I: England Your England http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/lionunicorn.html <br class="br">"The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941) <br class="br">Source: The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius <br class="br">Context: As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.<br>They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are ‘only doing their duty’, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life.
Gong Yoo (1979) South Korean actor
Source: "How Much Has Gong Yoo Changed Since His Debut? Actor Spills Tea In Recent Interviews" in Korea Portal http://en.koreaportal.com/articles/50498/20210919/much-gong-yoo-changed-debut-actor-spills-tea-recent-interviews.htm (19 September 2021)
“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.”
Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor
"Stay Wide Awake".
2000s, Relapse (2009)
“So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.”
David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
Edith Penrose (1914–1996) economist
Source: The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, 1959, p. 30
Charles K. Kao (1933–2018) Hong Hong-British-American physicist
In an interview, April 9, 1995, about his efforts at persuading telecommunications companies to use optical fibers, as quoted by [Jeff Hecht, City of light: the story of fiber optics, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0195162552, 117]
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Recollection by Gilbert J. Greene, quoted in The Speaking Oak (1902) by Ferdinand C. Iglehart and Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln (1917) by Ervin S. Chapman
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