“I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
“I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Andre Dubus (1936–1999) Novelist, short story writer, teacher
A Father's Story.
Selected Stories (1995)
Kurt Koffka (1886–1941) German psychologist
Kurt Koffka (1931), self-cited in: Kurt Koffka. Principles of Gestalt Psychology, 1935, p. 22
Kanō Jigorō (1860–1938) Japanese educator and judoka
Source: Kodokan Judo (1882), p. 23
Context: There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can help such people learn to control themselves. Through training, they quickly realize that anger is a waste of energy, that it has only negative effects on the self and others.
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Random thoughts http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell042902.asp, Jewish World Review, April 29, 2002 <br class="br">2000s
Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909) King of the Belgians
Leopold II, Het hele Verhaal, Johan Op De Beeck Horizon, 2020 https://klara.be/leopold-ii-aflevering-2-0 ISBN 9789463962094
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Source: Life Itself : A Memoir (2011), Ch. 54 : How I Believe In God
Context: Over the high school years, my belief in the likelihood of a God disappeared. I kept this to myself. I never discussed it with my parents. My father in any event was a nonpracticing Lutheran, until a deathbed conversion that rather disappointed me. I’m sure he agreed to it for my mother’s sake. Did I start calling myself an agnostic or an atheist? No, and I still don’t. I avoid that because I don’t want to provide a category that people can apply to me. Those who say that “believer” and “atheist” are concrete categories do violence to the mystery we must be humble enough to confess. I would not want my convictions reduced to a word.
John Barrowman (1967) Scottish-American actor, singer, dancer, musical theatre performer, writer and television personality
Taste of My Life BBC2 (2008)
“It never got weird enough for me.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Variant: On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean.”
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Source: Wind/Pinball: Two Novels