Attributed in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1992) edited by James B. Simpson, p. 142
1990s
Eddie August Schneider (1911–1940) American aviator
[I Break a Record and have a Swell Time Besides, Flying magazine, http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Eddie_August_Schneider_October_1931_Flying_magazine_page_1_of_5.png, October 1, 1930, Eddie August Schneider]
Mark Chapman (1955) American assassin
Mark Chapman on his motive. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2310873.stm
“Private air is a way of living for people who come here.”
Bruno Magras (1951) French politician
Saint Barthélemy <br class="br">Bruno Magras (2016) cited in: " As the Jet Set Arrives in St. Barts, Is There Trouble in Paradise? https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a8523/bruno-magras-st-barts/" in Town&Country, 28 November 2016.
James Doolittle (1896–1993) United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient
In a response to General Dwight Eisenhower on the plans for the 1942 invasion of North Africa, as quoted in 1980 interview, "Jimmy Doolittle Reminiscences About World War II" https://www.historynet.com/jimmy-doolittle-reminiscences-about-world-war-ii.htm
“Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Ryan Adams (1974) American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter
tomorrow is a new day.
Blender (December 2003)
“But do these people never come up with the idea that I might be artificial by nature?”
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) French composer
"Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"
Answering M. D. Calvocoressi on a question insinuating that many people thought Ravel's music rather "artificial" than "natural".
quoted in Calvocoressi's Musicians gallery, London, Faber, 1933
Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again.”
Eric Dolphy (1928–1964) American jazz musician
Said to an audience, as quoted in John Steinbeck Holiday, Vol. 58 (1977), p. 13
“It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
The Simplest Way to be Happy (1933)
