“Now that I got everyone's attention, what do I have to say?”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
(VH1 Behind The Music).
I’ve Got A Nietzsche Trigger Finger! (1986)
Context: I tell everyone not to do what I say! I’m behind the odd-ball, my ancestor was Putdown Man! Judge Crater freed me on my own recognizance, I ask: “What would Harpo say?”
For me, know ain’t nothing but no misspelled, and all cretins are liars. I go-for-baroque, I’m a lowlife hierarch, I picked the Locke and entered the Avant-Garden of Eden. I got Spartacus to take the rap for me! I’m the heavyweight Light-Bringer, I'm the out-of-court jester who won't settle, I up the vigilante, I'm a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?
“Now that I got everyone's attention, what do I have to say?”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
(VH1 Behind The Music).
“Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.””
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
“I used to tell everyone I meant to be an artist….. I don't do that any more.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Wall and Piece (2005)
“I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.”
Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host
As quoted in Funny Ladies (2001), by B. Adler, p. 272
“How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?”
E.M. Forster book Aspects of the Novel
Source: Aspects of the Novel (1927), Chapter Five: The Plot
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Source: Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)