Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
Barack Obama Reveals How He Popped the Question to Joe Biden, People Magazine, August 25, 2008, 2008-08-26 http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20221223_2,00.html, <br class="br">2000s
Burning Chrome (short story anthology, 1986)
Source: "Burning Chrome" (The Burning Chrome anthology was named after this short story, originally published in Omni, 1982)
“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
Stephen King book Different Seasons
Sometimes quoted as "Nothing good ever dies."
Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Source: The Shawshank Redemption
“The Great Architect of the universe built it of good stuff.”
Jules Verne book A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Ch. XXXI in the French text, Tr. William Butcher (1992)
“You've got to be lucky to pitch a no-hitter, and if you have good stuff, it's easier to be lucky.”
Sandy Koufax (1935) American baseball player
Speaking on July 1, 1990, at Chavez Ravine, in reference to a no-hitter thrown there just two days before by the Dodgers' Fernando Valuenzela (and, coincidentally, just hours before the Yankees' Andy Hawkins would, thanks to three 8th-inning Bomber miscues, famously record a 4-0, complete-game loss to Chicago, despite giving up no hits ); as quoted in "Notes on a Scorecard" https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-02-sp-474-story.html by Allan Malamud, in The Los Angeles Times (July 2, 1990)
“We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.”
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
