“"I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it," I say.”

— Suzanne Collins , book Catching Fire

Katniss, p. 241
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

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American television writer and novelist 1962

Jim Goad (1961) Author, publisher

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“If he’s not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It’s boyfriend or want to be boyfriend or I guess gay. Those are the choices.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.

“I knew a girl named Nikki
I guess U could say she was a sex fiend
I met her in a hotel lobby
Masturbating with a magazine.
She said "How'd U like 2 waste some time?"
And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind.”

Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor

Darling Nikki
Song lyrics, Purple Rain (1984)

“What I have suffered is unbelievable... I was given nothing [for his paintings in the Salon of 1855], not even a honorable mention.”

Johan Jongkind (1819–1891) Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism

In Jongkind's letter from The Netherlands, 25 Nov. 1855; as quoted by Victorine Hefting, in Jongkinds's Universe, Henri Scrépel, Paris, 1976, p. 37

“I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble…”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

[11333@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“If I still have time, I might add, Mr. Trewhitt, I might add that it was Seneca or it was Cicero, I don’t know which, that said, If it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Reagan followed up his previous reply with this comment to Baltimore Sun reporter Henry Trewhitt question on Regan´s age and ability to perform the duties as president Debate with Walter Mondale http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/102184b.htm (21 October 1984)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)