Robert Lynn Asprin (1946–2008) American science fiction and fantasy author
Source: The House that Jack Built (2001), Chapter 1 (p. 14)
Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 10, Punch Drunk
Robert Lynn Asprin (1946–2008) American science fiction and fantasy author
Source: The House that Jack Built (2001), Chapter 1 (p. 14)
Harriet Harman (1950) British politician
On Nick Clegg's social mobility pledges, during a debate in the House of Commons http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8441262/Harriet-Harman-facing-questions-over-sons-internship.html, 11 April 2011.
“The first punch causes the brain to go to one side of the skull.”
Wong Shun Leung (1935–1997) martial artist
Wong Shun Leung
Wisdom Quotes
Variant: ..... when you punch the head the brain hits the side of the skull.
“I didn't throw the first punch. I threw the second four.”
Billy Martin (1928–1989) American baseball player and coach
Great Book of Denver Sports Lists https://books.google.com/books?id=0DhXDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT104&dq=i+didn%27t+throw+the+first+punch.+i+threw+the+second+four+billy+martin&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw38ScqsrfAhVDXCwKHSJnBbsQ6AEILTAA#v=onepage&q=i%20didn't%20throw%20the%20first%20punch.%20i%20threw%20the%20second%20four%20billy%20martin&f=false|The
“(sings) 80 Bucks I want my 80 bucks!”
Joe Trohman (1984) American musician
On Dirty's bet
My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue (2004), Honda Civic Tour (2007)
William McKeen (1954) American academic
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 6, Stranger In A Strange Land, p. 89
Context: To create a balance of power and pedigree in the house, Hunter sent five bucks off to an ad he'd seen in the back pages of a magazine and received his mail-order doctor-of-divinity degree. He began referring to himself as Dr. Thompson and punctuated remarks with his afterword: "I am, after all, a doctor." Friends picked up on the joke, and he was "the Good Doctor" for the rest of his life.
“Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) French mime and actor
As quoted in Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools (1978) by Lucy Gregor Brown; unsourced variant or misquotation: "A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible."
“A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.”
Steve Kluger (1952) American writer
Source: My Most Excellent Year
“Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) French mime and actor
US News & World Report (23 February 1987)