the bishop of Skálholt
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part II: The Fair Maiden
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 9, “Natural History” (p. 433)
[Andy Rooney, w:Andy Rooney, 197, Labels, Years of Minutes, 2003, PublicAffairs, 978-1586482114]
“Not everyone was as good at creation as they were at complaining.”
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 64)
Source: The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
“A private ball this was called…but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!”
Letter XI
Evelina (1778)
“Yes, there's love if you want it. Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord.”
Urban Hymns (1997)
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
“My idea in "My Sweet Lord," because it sounded like a "pop song," was to sneak up on them a bit.”
Interview with Mukunda Goswami (4 September 1982)
Context: My idea in "My Sweet Lord," because it sounded like a "pop song," was to sneak up on them a bit. The point was to have the people not offended by "Hallelujah," and by the time it gets to "Hare Krishna," they're already hooked, and their foot's tapping, and they're already singing along "Hallelujah," to kind of lull them into a sense of false security. And then suddenly it turns into "Hare Krishna," and they will all be singing that before they know what's happened, and they will think, "Hey, I thought I wasn't supposed to like Hare Krishna!"
