“For seventeen years, he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.”
Harold Nicolson (1886–1968) British diplomat, author, diarist and politician
Of King George V; Diary, 17 Aug 1949
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“For seventeen years, he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.”
Harold Nicolson (1886–1968) British diplomat, author, diarist and politician
Of King George V; Diary, 17 Aug 1949
“For seventeen years, he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.”
George V of the United Kingdom (1865–1936) King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India
Harold Nicolson; Diary, 17 Aug 1949
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“Why did he get himself killed for us?" "Because he was a hero. And that is what heroes do.”
David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 20
Context: "We irritated him, he told me. Why did he get himself killed for us?" "Because he was a hero. And that is what heroes do. You understand?"
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future (2001)
Context: It's important to remember that the relationship between different media tends to be complementary. When new media arrive they don't necessarily replace or eradicate previous types. Though we should perhaps observe a half second silence for the eight-track. — There that's done. What usually happens is that older media have to shuffle about a bit to make space for the new one and its particular advantages. Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies — what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?
David Irving (1938) British writer and Holocaust denier
Interview with John Humphrys on The Today Program (23 December 2006)
Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) founder of al-Qaeda
On the September 11, 2001 attacks, in CNN broadcast of an interview http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/world/0302/timeline.bin.laden.audio/content.6.html that Al-Jazeera conducted in October 2001 (31 January 2002). <br class="br">2000s, 2002
Shamini Flint book Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder
Did these people not know that if they continued to feed and spread and grow, with the tendrils of their greed wrapping themselves around their host, the day would come when it could no longer sustain them and when it died they would too?
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder, Cap 19
Lynsay Sands Canadian writer
Source: The Renegade Hunter