William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Let the Brothels of Paris, st. 2
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Let the Brothels of Paris, st. 2
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
“If we have the smegging compass, Jeremy, you don't need to look at the farting sun.”
Gavin Free (1988) English filmmaker
"Let's Play Minecraft: Ep. 236 - Voyage of the Dumb Treaders" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1MLhR5OzWw. youtube.com. December 2, 2016. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
“Never make a decision when you need to pee.”
Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers
Source: Beautiful Losers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Social Aims <br class="br">Sometimes condensed to "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.”
Jerry Garcia (1942–1995) American musician and member of the Grateful Dead
“I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.”
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
Interview by William Lombardy, 1972 http://www.bobby-fischer.net/Bobby_Fischer_Articles7.html <br class="br">1970s
Josip Novakovich (1956) Canadian writer
Source: Fiction Writer's Workshop
“The brief silence that follows is as tender as a
rainstorm of daisies.”
Mathias Malzieu book La Mécanique du cœur
Source: La Mécanique du cœur
Iain Banks (1954–2013) Scottish writer
“A Few Notes on the Culture” (p. 169)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)
“Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.”
Ian Frazier (1951) author and journalist