A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) British politician
"Seeing It Through", London Transport poster by Eric Kennington (1944).
Asked, at age 17, about his driving skills. http://web.archive.org/web/20070621231816/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-malakar_pjun07,1,5161622.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) British politician
"Seeing It Through", London Transport poster by Eric Kennington (1944).
“I've never killed anyone. I don't need to kill anyone. I think it. I have it here.”
Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician
[points to head]
NBC interview (1987)
“Erdogan once said that democracy for him is a bus ride. “Once I get to my stop, I’m getting off."”
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954) 12th President of Turkey from 2014
King Abdullah II of Jordan <br class="br">Quoted by Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg News, July 4, 2013. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-04/good-riddance-to-brotherhood-s-fake-democrats.html <br class="br">About
“I killed you! And you didn’t even notice!”
Charles Stross book Glasshouse
Source: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 14, “Hospital” (p. 235)
“I didn’t invite anyone to pose for a photo together with me.”
Sergey Lavrov (1950) Russian politician and Foreign Minister
Said after several G20 representatives refused to join a group photo session together with Lavrov, quoted in "Vladimir Putin lackey Sergey Lavrov storms out of G20 after photo snub" https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/russian-minister-sergey-lavrov-leaves-g20-after-photo-snub/, New York Post, 8 July 2022 <br class="br">About the Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian
Source: Interview with the Oxford Union http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPb1VNt2EOo (25 May 2015)
“I had the evening to kill, but it didn’t want to die and fought back.”
Jack Finney book From Time to Time
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 20 (p. 212)
“I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.”
Octavia E. Butler book Adulthood Rites
“No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.”
Part II “Phoenix” chapter 15 (p. 381)
Adulthood Rites (1988)