“We're going to have the best educated American people in the world.”
Dan Quayle (1947) American politician, lawyer
Attributed
2010s, 2014 FIFA World Cup, Brazil v. Germany (2014)
“We're going to have the best educated American people in the world.”
Dan Quayle (1947) American politician, lawyer
Attributed
“How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
TIME interview (1991)
Context: I don't think we're ever going to have a cheap fascism of Brownshirts and goose stepping or anything of that sort. We're too American for that. We would find that ridiculous.
But there are always traces of repression. And you can find it in a Democratic government too. People who are "right-minded," you know, are always with us. But I think so long as we can move along with the economy, we're all right. It's just if there's a smash, a crash — that's when I'm not at all optimistic about what's going to happen.
“Hope for the best. Expect the worst.
The world's a stage. We're unrehearsed.”
Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer
Chorus
12 Chairs
Kayla Barron (1987) American astronaut
Source: Kayla Barron (2021) cited in " Astronauts on International Space Station send Christmas video message to Earth https://www.space.com/space-station-astronauts-christmas-2021-video" on Space.com, 26 December 2021.
“You think we're dancing?"
"That's all we've ever done.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
Bert McCracken (1982) American musician
On his "singer emo poster-child status", interview in John Benson (March 4, 2005) "Emo disorder It's not called chaos for nothing, says nonheadlining headliner", The Plain Dealer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, p. 4.
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Sergeant Patrick Harper and Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, p. 262
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Rifles (1988)