“"It's broccoli, dear."
"I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."”
Caption for a cartoon by Carl Rose in The New Yorker (8 December 1928)
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American writer 1899–1985Related quotes
Laura Nyro (1947–1997) American musician and songwriter
"The Right To Vote"
Lyrics
“Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Richard of Gloucester, Act V, scene vi.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
“But I tried though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?”
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 11
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
Joe Satriani (1956) American guitar player
They throw it away and keep on playing.
As quoted in "Shred on Arrival" in Guitar World (November 1993).
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
Source: FRUS, Nixon-Haig telcon, 29 April 1971, p. 99. quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Letter to Harold J. Laski (4 March 1920); reported in Holmes-Laski Letters (1953) by Mark DeWolfe Howe, vol. 1, p. 249.
1920s