Hareton Earnshaw to Linton Heathcliff (Ch. XXI).
Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist 1944Related quotes
“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
(1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Variant: If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
“Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.”
Martin Sheen
(1940) American actor
2000s, AARP magazine interview (2008)
Context: When a life is at stake and it's your child, you become fearless in a lot of ways. I mean, you jut become fanatic. Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.
Alan Greenspan
(1926) 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States
Speech to the Commercial Finance Association on October 26, 2006, as reported by the Associated Press ( "Finally, Greenspan can speak his mind" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15428994/ns/business-us_business/t/finally-greenspan-can-speak-his-mind/).
2000s
“But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.”
Prince
(1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
1999
Song lyrics, 1999 (1982)
Source: 1999 (Piano/Vocal/Guitar)
Context: I was dreamin' when I wrote this
So sue me if I go 2 fast.
But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant 2 last.
War is all around us, my mind says prepare 2 fight
So if I gotta die I'm gonna listen 2 my body tonight.Yeah, they say two thousand zero zero party over,
oops out of time
So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999.
“Jack: These last 2 miles were rugged, weren't they?”
Jack Benny
(1894–1974) comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
“Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.”
Abraham Polonsky
(1910–1999) American politician
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969).