“There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.”
But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World! The pleasures and perils of an unseasoned traveler (1973)
Variant: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.”
But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World! The pleasures and perils of an unseasoned traveler (1973)
Interview with Bill Neely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45odEv_1DAY (July 2016) on " NBC: Exclusive Interview with Bashar al-Assad https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/syria-s-president-bashar-al-assad-speaks-nbc-news-n608746"
“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”
Sunday Times [London] (20 June 1971)
“In fact, there’s probably only one thing worse than not being able to understand a person.”
“What’s that?” asked Nimrod.
“Being able to understand him completely.”
"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 20: The Tower" p. 76 (originally published in Author’s Choice Monthly #8: Swatting at the Cosmos)
Short fiction, Bible Stories for Adults (1996)
“The theme is what is being talked about, the point of departure for the clause as message”
Source: 1970s and later, Cohesion in English (English Language), 1976, p. 212.
Context: The theme is what is being talked about, the point of departure for the clause as message, and the speaker has within certain limits the option of selecting any element in the clause as thematic.
“Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.”
Ways of Paradox and Other Essays (1976), p. 174
1970s