“My eyes! what tiles and chimney-pots
About their heads are flying!”
William Pitt (ship-builder) English ship-builder
The Sailor's Consolation.
Dixon, Collected Interviews, 90–91
“My eyes! what tiles and chimney-pots
About their heads are flying!”
William Pitt (ship-builder) English ship-builder
The Sailor's Consolation.
Joe Trohman (1984) American musician
My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue (2004), Ultimate Guitar Interview (2008)
Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
“But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.”
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Nicholas Negroponte (1943) American computer scientist
Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_a_30_year_history_of_the_future, July 2014, TED Talks (about 13:40 into 19:43 video). <br class="br">A 30-year history of the future, TED Talk (2014)
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Podcast Series 3 Episode 4
On Nature
Nathan Lane (1956) American actor
Marshall Fine (January 24, 2000) "Nathan the 'Great'", The Journal News, p. 1E.
“They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Apology for Smectymnuus (1642), section VIII
Source: An apology for Smectymnuus with the reason of church-government by John Milton ...
Context: So little care they of beasts to make them men, that by their sorcerous doctrine of formalities, they take the way to transform them out of Christian men into judaizing beasts. Had they but taught the land, or suffered it to be taught, as Christ would it should have been in all plenteous dispensation of the word, then the poor mechanic might have so accustomed his ear to good teaching, as to have discerned between faithful teachers and false. But now, with a most inhuman cruelty, they who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them of their blindness; just as the Pharisees their true fathers were wont, who could not endure that the people should be thought competent judges of Christ’s doctrine, although we know they judged far better than those great rabbis: yet “this people,” said they, “that know not the law is accursed.”