Pæstum, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Edmund Waller (1606–1687) English poet and politician
On the Divine Poems (1686). Compare: "To vanish in the chinks that Time has made", Samuel Rogers, Pæstum; "As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
“This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.”
Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989) Religious leader, politician
Just How Far Did They Go, Those Words Against Israel?, The New York Times, June 11, 2006, 2007-08-13 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/weekinreview/11bronner.html?ex=1307678400&en=efa2bd266224e880&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss, <br class="br">Foreign policy
“The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.”
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956) 6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Quoted in: Juan Cole (2006) Hitchens hacker and hitchens http://www.juancole.com/2006/05/hitchens-hacker-and-hitchens.html at juancole.com, May 2006 <br class="br">2005, The World without Zionism, 2005
Linda McQuaig (1951) journalist and author
Why, look - even as we watch - those 2.8 billion people are going to find food on their plates. Look again in a few hours and their shacks will have toilets - and then air conditioning. In a few days, they'll likely have DVD systems and be doing their banking by cellphone.
All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism (2001)
“A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer
Bennington College address (1970)
Context: A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.
Hans Arp (1886–1966) Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist
Source: 1960s, Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966), p. 315
Context: Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.
“You notice for the first time that she has freckles. You didn't know they still made them.”
Jay McInerney book Bright Lights, Big City
Bright Lights, Big City (1984)
