“Fingerprints are like values--you leave them all over everything you do”
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
Variant: Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do
Source: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 28 : Conclusion
“Fingerprints are like values--you leave them all over everything you do”
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
Variant: Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do
“We should be fingerprinting environmentalists”
Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator
2002, Ann Coulter : Left Is 'out to Destroy the Country' (2002)
Context: We should be fingerprinting environmentalists … As for what can be done to convince Americans that we face an enemy that hates America as much as the terrorists, we should put people like Ann Coulter on TV more, stop with the infernal nonsense of thinking liberals are decent but misguided people, and characterize the threat appropriately. … Start by telling the truth about them: They are out to destroy the country.
“Poetry is the fingerprint of God in human clay.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994) Colombian writer and philosopher
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977), Volume Two
“You are to be congratulated on your talent for deception.”
Charles E. Gannon (1960) American novelist
Source: Trial by Fire (2014), Chapter 55 (p. 792)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author
The New York Times (26 November 1978)
“Congratulations, you have been tea-bagged!”
Rachel Maddow (1973) American journalist
The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC (April 14, 2009)
“I congratulate you on having such a unique and beautiful problem.”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
Hickory Dickory Dock
“Congratulations, you have won
It's a year's subscription of bad puns.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Opinion.
Song lyrics, Posthumously released (post-1994)