“I'm a minor, stupid talent compared to my brother”
River Phoenix (1970–1993) American actor, musician, and activist
Joaquin
Mademoiselle (1993)
Source: Almost Perfect
“I'm a minor, stupid talent compared to my brother”
River Phoenix (1970–1993) American actor, musician, and activist
Joaquin
Mademoiselle (1993)
Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter
Raise Your Glass, written by Pink, Max Martin, and Shellback
Song lyrics, Greatest Hits... So Far!!! (2010)
John Denham (1615–1669) English poet and courtier
On Mr. John Fletcher's Works. Compare: "Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill", Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Prologues (republished in Dramatic Works, 1739); "Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne", Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 197.
Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
An Open Letter (1983), p. 9.
Objecting to his inclusion in The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry.
Other Quotes
“The obstacle has been Mackenzie King, the Canadian, who is both obstinate, tiresome and stupid.”
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925) British politician
Source: Letter to his wife during the 1923 Imperial Conference (8 November 1923), quoted in Terry Reardon, Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King: So Similar, So Different (2012), pp. 52-53
Joseph Strutt (1749–1802) British engraver, artist, antiquary and writer
pg. 363
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Wassail
“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
16 August 1925
Enough Rope (1926)
“Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.”
A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet
"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism", a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921
“Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
David Gemmell book Stormrider
Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 2