“You took me riding in your rocket and gave me a star,
But at a half a mile from heaven
You dropped me back down to this cold, cold world.”
Rocket Love
Song lyrics, Hotter Than July (1980)
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“If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.”
Terry Pratchett book Unseen Academicals
Source: Unseen Academicals
Chuck Berry (1926–2017) American rock-and-roll musician
"I Want to Be Your Driver" (1965)
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“Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.”
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
Letter to John Adams (5 August 1776)
“I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Variant: We stopped laughing, I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Variant: We were just two teenagers, looking up at the sky on a cold February night. So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.
Source: We'll Always Have Summer
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Drei Matones, 1904–15. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 187.
James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
Cold Sweat, written with Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (1967)
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Harold Monro (1879–1932) British poet
"Living", line 36, from Alida Monro (ed.) Collected Poems (London: Duckworth, [1933] 1970) p. 13.