“I will put on my shoes and shirt
and get out of here - it'll
be better for
all of us.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
[199804161810.LAA18902@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“I will put on my shoes and shirt
and get out of here - it'll
be better for
all of us.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Harlan Ellison book Eidolons
"Eidolons" (1988)
Context: Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by the ghost of your mother from the spectral Hindenburg forever circling the Earth come smashing through the lid of your glass coffin? Did the New York strip steak you attacked at dinner suddenly show a mouth filled with needle-sharp teeth, and did it snap off the end of your fork, the last solid-gold fork from the set Anastasia pressed into your hands as they took her away to be shot? Is the slab under your apartment building moaning that it cannot stand the weight on its back a moment longer, and is the building stretching and creaking? Did a good friend betray you today, or did that good friend merely keep silent and fail to come to your aid? Are you holding the razor at your throat this very instant? Take heart, comfort is at hand. This is the hour that stretches. Djam karet. We are the cavalry. We're here. Put away the pills. We'll get you through this bloody night. Next time, it'll be your turn to help us.
Walter Rodney book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 18.
Context: However, the peasants and workers of Europe (and eventually the inhabitants of the whole world) paid a huge price so that the capitalists could make their profits from the human labor that always lies behind the machines. That contradicts other facets of development, especially viewed from the standpoint of those who suffered and still suffer to make capitalist achievements possible. This latter group are the majority of mankind. To advance, they must overthrow capitalism; and that is why at the moment capitalism stands in the path of further human social development. To put it another way, the social (class) relations of capitalism are now outmoded, just as slave and feudal relations became outmoded in their time.
“If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.”
Hammurabi (-1810–-1750 BC) sixth king of Babylon
Section 196 of the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910).
Alternately translated as: If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.
“Simply put, there will never be another Virtue and Moir.”
Scott Moir (1987) Canadian figure skater
Pj Kwong, CBC Sports, in "There will never be another Virtue and Moir" http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/figureskating/there-will-never-be-another-virtue-and-moir-1.4542769 (21 February 2018)
“Simply put, there will never be another Virtue and Moir.”
Tessa Virtue (1989) Canadian ice dancer
Pj Kwong, CBC Sports, in "There will never be another Virtue and Moir" http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/figureskating/there-will-never-be-another-virtue-and-moir-1.4542769 (21 February 2018)
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913) Anglo-Irish rower, barrister, politician and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
On the subject of the rule in Shelley's Case (1 Rep. 104a); reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 170.
Michael Nava (1954) American writer
Source: Henry Rios series of novels, The Hidden Law (1992), p.66