
“I don't like radical anything; left or right. I have a radical dislike of radicals.”
Page 256 of An Anthropologist On Mars By Oliver Sacks
The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese (February 1986).
“I don't like radical anything; left or right. I have a radical dislike of radicals.”
Page 256 of An Anthropologist On Mars By Oliver Sacks
"Final Curve"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
“I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.”
Source: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Source: Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi (2017), p. 67
Gene Kelly on the subject of social dancing, in Lawrenson, Helen. "It's Better to Remember Fred." Esquire, August 1976, pp92-96, 106, 109-110. (M).
1. maximize choices for every American (and for the U.S. as a whole) as much as possible;
2. guarantee a fair start in life for every American;
3. maximize every American's human potential as much as possible;
4. be of genuine help to everyone in the developing world.
Source: Radical Middle (2004), Chapter 1, "A Creative and Practical Politics," p. 6.
Source: The Hindu Editor A salute to Citizen Narayanan http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/10/stories/2005111005821000.htm, The Hindu, 10 November 2011
He was running his hand into his breeches pocket, apparently to take out his knife, but I...drew up my right leg, armed with a new and sharp-edged gallashe over my boot, dealt Mr. Ellice's ripping Savage so delightful a blow, just between his two eyes, that he fell back upon his followers.
‘History of the Coventry Election’, Political Register (25 March 1820), pp. 102–3
1820s
As quoted in "All He Needed Was a Good Scare" by Samuel Grafton, Good Housekeeping (August 1951), p. 136
“If my head had been a ball, it would have been in the top corner of the net.”
Discussing incident when John Hartson kicked Berkovic in the head during training. [Football: Hartson fined pounds 20,000 by FA, The Independent, 2 February 1999, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990202/ai_n14214534, 27 March, 2007]