“My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first."”
John Dingell (1926–2019) American politician
PBS Online NewsHour, August 18, 2003. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec03/grid_8-18.html
Source: Sandman Slim
“My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first."”
John Dingell (1926–2019) American politician
PBS Online NewsHour, August 18, 2003. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec03/grid_8-18.html
“THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS.”
Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician
A message he would variously write or post on his guitar, beginning in 1941.
Variant: THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS.
Peter Rhee (1961) American surgeon
[February 22, 2018, All-American Killer: How the AR-15 Became Mass Shooters’ Weapon of Choice, w:Tim Dickinson, Tim, Dickinson, Rolling Stone, September 4, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/all-american-killer-how-the-ar-15-became-mass-shooters-weapon-of-choice-107819/]
Al Sharpton (1954) American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host
Eulogy for Michael Jackson at his memorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MAKLq865bk (7 July 2009).
Paolo Monti (1908–1982) Italian photographer
"Mariel", in Camera, n. 10, October 1956; quoted in Conversazioni https://www.beic.it/mostre/monti/conversazioni.html, BEIC. <br class="br">Original: (it) Finalmente ad aiutare i ricordi venne una macchina, l'apparecchio fotografico un tempo ingombrante come un mobile in mezzo alla stanza, oggi leggero, lucido e preciso come un'arma. Preciso. E fedele?
Sam Cooke (1931–1964) American singer-songwriter and entrepreneur
Summertime
Song lyrics, Sam Cooke (1957)
Richard Dawkins book The Blind Watchmaker
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 6 “Origins and Miracles” (p. 141)