Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Context: "You." A finger the size of a corncob, an inch from Slothrop's nose.
...
"Look," Slothrop's friend producing a kraft-paper envelope that even in the gloom Slothrop can tell is fat with American Army yellow-seal scrip, "I want you to hold this for me, till I ask for it back. It looks like Italo is going to get here before Tamara, and I'm not sure which one"
"At this rate, Tamara's gonna get here before tonight," Slothrop interjects in a Groucho Marx voice.
"Don't try to undermine my confidence in you," advises the Large One. "You're the man."
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
"A Negro Assays on the Negro Mood," The New York Times, 12 March 1961, published in book form as "East River, Downtown: Postscript to a Letter from Harlem" in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)
“Ooh, how'm I gonna get over you?
I'll be alright
Just not tonight
But someday”
Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
"Gonna Get Over You"
Written by Bareilles and Sam Farrar
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)
“Well tonight I'm gonna live for today, so come along for the ride,
I hope I'm old before I die.”
Robbie Williams (1974) British singer and entertainer
Old Before I Die
Life Thru a Lens (1997)
Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981) American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
Marty Pilletti.
Marty (1955)
Context: You don't like her. My mother don't like her. She's a dog and I'm a fat, ugly man. Well, all I know is I had a good time last night. I'm gonna have a good time tonight. If we have enough good times together, I'm gonna get down on my knees and I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me.
Lionel Richie (1949) American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor
Dancing on the Ceiling, co-written with Mike Frenchik and Carlos Rios.
Song lyrics, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986)
Phil Hartman (1948–1998) Canadian American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphic artist
On Saturday Night Live
Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter
U + Ur Hand, written by Pink, Max Martin, Lukasz Gottwald, and Rami Yacoub
Song lyrics, I'm Not Dead (2006)
