“Ricky: You are the strangest man alive.”
An Idiot Abroad
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Karl Pilkington160
English television personality, social commentator, actor, … 1972Related quotes
“Ricky Hatton ain't nothing but a fat man. I'm going to punch him in his beer belly when I see him.”
Ricky Hatton (1978) English former professional boxer
Floyd Mayweather speaking out about how hes going to beat Hatton http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/6328555.stm <br class="br">Other boxers on Ricky(Sourced)
Kenneth Clark (1903–1983) Art historian, broadcaster and museum director
Source: Civilisation (1969), Ch. 9: The Pursuit of Happiness
“Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.”
Osamu Dazai book The Setting Sun
Source: The Setting Sun
James Macpherson (1736–1796) Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician
Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785), p. 487.
Criticism
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
“Neither you nor any man alive shall do this unpunished: no, you shall give recompense to me with your life-blood.”
Nec pol homo quisquam faciet inpune animatus
hoc nec tu; nam mi calido dabis sanguine poenas.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia; Book VI, Chapter I
Compare: Tu tamen interea calido mihi sanguine poenas persolves amborum, Virgil, Aeneid, Book IX, line 422
“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Un muerto en España está más vivo como muerto que en ningún sitio del mundo.
"Theory and Play of the Duende" from A Poet in New York (1940)
