Source: Northanger Abbey
Gustav Metzger: 'Destroy, and you create', 2012
“A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.”
Attributed to her in Commons debates, 2003-07-02, column 407 http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030702/debtext/30702-10.htm and Commons debates, 2004-06-15 column 697 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/vo040615/debtext/40615-20.htm#40615-20_spnew1. According to a letter http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/11/02/nosplit/dt0201.xml&site=15&page=0 to the Daily Telegraph by Alistair Cooke on 2 November 2006, this sentiment originated with Loelia Ponsonby, one of the wives of 2nd Duke of Westminster who said "Anybody seen in a bus over the age of 30 has been a failure in life". In a letter http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/3633852/Letters-to-the-Daily-Telegraph.html published the next day, also in the Daily Telegraph, Hugo Vickers claims Loelia Ponsonby admitted to him that she had borrowed it from Brian Howard. There is no solid evidence that Margaret Thatcher ever quoted this statement with approval, or indeed shared the sentiment.
Misattributed
“Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”
“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”
Source: Hiss of Death
Fuckin' Perfect, written by Pink, Max Martin, and Shellback
Song lyrics, Greatest Hits... So Far!!! (2010)
“… because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.”
Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
On doing things other women don't dare do; Popworld interview with Garbage in 2005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h4AqIDSzeI.
“We made a mistake lowering the voting age to 18. I think it happened basically out of guilt.”
Reported by Mike Jones, " Haggard Admits Buying Meth: Evangelical Leader Denies Accusation of Paying Former Gay Prostitute for Sex http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2626067&page=2", ABC News, accessed November 6, 2006.
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