Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
As quoted in an undated profile at the BBC World Service http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/lessing_being.shtml
“Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial”
— George Orwell, book Animal Farm
Source: Animal Farm
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“If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
This saying was popularized by Truman after he publicly used it in 1952. It was soon credited to his aide Harry H. Vaughan in TIME (28 April 1952) but apparently originated with a Missouri colleague of Truman, Eugene "Buck" Purcell, according to The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, And When (2006) by Ralph Keyes. Truman himself later made reference to his popularization of the remark in his book Mr. Citizen (1960), p. 229:
: There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives of tens of millions of people around the world, but that does not mean that they should take longer to make. Some men can make decisions and some cannot. Some men fret and delay under criticism. I used to have a saying that applies here, and I note that some people have picked it up, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Misattributed
“Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”
Stephen King book Pet Sematary
Stephen King in introduction.
Source: Pet Sematary (1983)
Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist
Carbon dioxide burial reaches a milestone http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/07/06/also-going-down-carbon-dioxide-burial-reaches-a-milestone/, wattsupwiththat.com, July 6, 2008. <br class="br">Other
Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930) American politician
On slavery, in her 1919 autobiography Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth Felton, p.79 http://www.google.com/books?id=gHsLIvQ_BN0C&dq=rebecca+latimer+felton&printsec=frontcover&source=in#PPA79,M1.
