“If he gets shot, it's too damn bad.”

— Richard Nixon

Conversation about Senator Edward Kennedy with White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman (7 September 1972)
1970s, Tape transcripts (1972)

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37th President of the United States of America 1913–1994

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“We spent too much damn time getting down. Now it’s time to get up.”

Malcolm Azania book From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain

Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 9 “Paranoia: It Can Destroy Ya” (p. 258)

“And the white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold.
I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
All my cards are on the table with no ace left in the hole,
I'm much too young to feel this damn old.”

Garth Brooks (1962) American country music artist

Much Too Young, written by G. Brooks and Randy Taylor
Song lyrics, Garth Brooks (1989)

“"Dale Dunkey shot my house up / He shot it up to get rid of the termites / He then shot at me with his BB gun" - The Termites Ate My House Up”

Wesley Willis (1963–2003) American singer-songwriter

Lyrics, Solo

“He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better one myself.”

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773–1850) British politician

Sydney Smith, in a letter to Jeffrey, claimed this as his own parody of him: "If you could be alarmed into the semblance of modesty, you would charm everybody; but remember my joke against you about the Moon and the Solar System;— 'Damn the solar system! bad light—planets too distant—pestered with comets—feeble contriviance;—could make a better with great ease.'" (The Review of English Studies New Series, vol. 44, pp. 430-432).
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