“I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.”
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
"Baby Got Back"
subsequently used by Nicki Minaj
Song lyrics, Mack Daddy, 1992
“I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.”
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
No known source in Oscar Wilde's works. Earliest known example of a similar quote comes from a 2001 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.atheism/ZadPWBw-wew/G_3tx370wpoJ (not attributed to Wilde) <br class="br">Attributed to Wilde on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15736-i-don-t-want-to-go-to-heaven-none-of-my?page=83 some time on or before January 2008. <br class="br">Bears some resemblance to Machiavelli's deathbed dream https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Disputed. <br class="br">Disputed
James Dean Bradfield (1969) Welsh musician, lead singer and guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers
Q magazine, November 1996 issue http://covers.q4music.com/Item.aspx?pageNo=5982&year=1996 <br class="br">Quote
“Oh, you've got a gun? So, you want to pop that?”
Snoop Dogg (1971) American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor
"Drop It Like It's Hot" (2004), R&G: The Masterpiece (2004).
Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) Japanese-born British author
... I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist about that. I don't like it as a reader, when I'm reading something. It's not just the elitism of it; it jolts me out of the mode in which I'm reading. I've immersed myself in the world and then when the light goes on I'm supposed to be making some kind of literary comparison to another text. I find I'm pulled out of my kind of fictional world, I'm asked to use my brain in a different kind of way. I don't like that.<br><br>Rukeyser, Rebecca. " Kazuo Ishiguro: Mythic Retreat https://www.guernicamag.com/mythic-retreat/" guernicamag.com interview. 1 May 2015.
“If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.”
Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist
Otis Redding (1941–1967) American singer, songwriter and record producer
Respect, later covered by Aretha Franklin.
Song lyrics, Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965)
“Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.”
Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) cartoonist
As quoted in Peter's People (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 28.