“English never met a word it didn't like.”
Anu Garg (1967) Indian author
On English's propensity to borrow words from other languages, quoted in * 2000-12-01
Smithsonian
WARNING: Log-o-phil-ia is Addictive
Rudolph
Chelminski
“English never met a word it didn't like.”
Anu Garg (1967) Indian author
On English's propensity to borrow words from other languages, quoted in * 2000-12-01
Smithsonian
WARNING: Log-o-phil-ia is Addictive
Rudolph
Chelminski
“I never met a man I didn’t like.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Nationally syndicated column number 219, Rogers Gets Six Shiny Dimes From Oil King (1927). <ref name=columns2>
Weekly columns
Variant: I never met a man that I didn't like.
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada
Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 178
Memoirs (1993)
Context: Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers. I didn't like to slap backs or other parts of the anatomy. I liked hecklers, because they brought my speeches alive. I liked supporters, because they looked happy. And I really enjoyed mingling with people, if there wasn't too much of it.
Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
Television interview (March 1992), quoted in the New York Times (31 March 1992) realone audio file http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/ididntinhale.rm <br class="br">1990s
“I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Idiot
The Idiot (1868–9)
Context: I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness. I understood from the way he talked that anyone who chose could deceive him, and that he would forgive anyone afterwards who had deceived him, and that was why I grew to love him.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)
Tim Winton (1960) Australian writer
Part I, Ch.6 - p.43
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
Gus Van Sant (1952) American film director, producer, photographer and musician
Source: Good Will Hunting