“Before my eyes he wilted like a wet sock.”
P.G. Wodehouse book Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)
“Before my eyes he wilted like a wet sock.”
P.G. Wodehouse book Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)
Amber (1970) Dutch born German singer, songwriter, label owner and executive producer
"The Need to Be Naked", from Naked (2002).
“And I can hear my mother saying
"Every old sock meets an old shoe"
Isn't that a great saying?”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
The Legacy of the Civil War (1961), pp. 49–50
Context: We are right to see power prestige and confidence as conditioned by the Civil War. But it is a very easy step to regard the War, therefore, as a jolly piece of luck only slightly disguised, part of our divinely instituted success story, and to think, in some shadowy corner of our mind, of the dead at Gettysburg as a small price to pay for the development of a really satisfactory and cheap compact car with decent pick-up and road-holding capability. It is to our credit that we survived the War and tempered our national fiber in the processs, but human decency and the future security of our country demand that we look at the costs. What are some of the costs?
Blood is the first cost. History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that. It was real blood, not tomato catsup or the pale ectoplasm of statistics, that wet the ground at Bloody Angle and darkened the waters of Bloody Pond. It modifies our complacency to look at the blurred and harrowing old photographs — the body of the dead sharpshooter in the Devil's Den at Gettysburg or the tangled mass in the Bloody Lane at Antietam.
“It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.”
Charlaine Harris book Club Dead
Source: Club Dead
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
As quoted in Williams' Weighing the Odds: A Course in Probability and Statistics (2001), p. 498
Attributed from posthumous publications
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
in Marc Elder, A Giverny, chez Claude Monet (1924); as quoted in: Vivian Russell (1998) Monet's Water Lilies: The Inspiration of a Floating World. p. 19
1920 - 1926
Miley Cyrus (1992) American actor and singer-songwriter
Inquirer.net http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20081120-173424/Miley-Cyrus-lends-voice-to-animated-film (November 20, 2008)
“I don't have a photograph. I'd give you my footprints, but they're upstairs in my socks.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
When asked for a photograph for identification
The Groucho Phile (1976)