Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
Song lyrics, Rust Never Sleeps (1978)
Even at the age of 102 he said this as quoted in [Our Leaders, http://books.google.com/books?id=YwTh-vjSFXUC&pg=PA51, 1989, Children's Book Trust, 978-81-7011-701-8, 63]
Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
Song lyrics, Rust Never Sleeps (1978)
“One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (August 18, 1891)
Letters
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer
Bennington College address (1970)
Context: I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty — and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine.
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.
“But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.”
Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient
Source: Ringen sluttet
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
I Grieve
Song lyrics, City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture (1998)
“Rust rust rust
in the engines of love and time”
Leonard Cohen book Flowers for Hitler
"Front Lawn", Flowers for Hitler (1964)
Alex Ferguson (1941) Scottish footballer and manager
Goal.com (20 October 2010) http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2914/champions-league/2010/10/20/2175638/sir-alex-ferguson-compares-rooney-situation-to-a-cow-in-a.