Sam Donaldson (1934) American journalist
As quoted in "Respek" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=m1_FAsefZ6o (18 July 2004), Da Ali G Show. <br class="br">2000s
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Sam Donaldson (1934) American journalist
As quoted in "Respek" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=m1_FAsefZ6o (18 July 2004), Da Ali G Show. <br class="br">2000s
“Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.”
Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.
Cato the Elder (-234–-149 BC) politician, writer and economist (0234-0149)
As quoted by Seneca (Epistles, 94)
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
“Why do you buy [shoddy goods] if you think the quality is so poor?”
Shamini Flint (1969) Malaysian writer
"Cheaper," [Mrs Singh] responded.
"You get what you pay for," [Inspector Singh] pointed out.
"That's what my father said when I complained about you."
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Calamitous Chinese Killing, Cap 1
“What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.”
Chuck Klosterman Eating the Dinosaur
Source: Eating the Dinosaur
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications
David Cross (1964) American comedian, writer and actor
Um, I’ll be telling a bunch of them here tonight.
It's Not Funny