Sleeping Beauty (1973)
Marquis de Sade book The 120 Days of Sodom
Nos quatre libertins, à moitié ivres, mais résolus pourtant d'observer leurs lois, se contentèrent de baisers, d'attouchements, mais que leur tête libertine sut assaisonner de tous les raffinements de la débauche et de la lubricité.
The First Day
The 120 Days of Sodom (1785)
Richard Burton (1925–1984) Welsh actor
In Mark Pollman Bottled Wisdom: Over 1,000 Spirited Quotations & Anecdotes http://books.google.com/books?id=fM3CO-2nW7sC&pg=PA146, Wildstone Media, 1 January 1998, p. 146,
“I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Source: CAT'S EYE.
“Jack: Yeah, then we ran out of water. For three weeks we couldn't even take a bath.”
Jack Benny (1894–1974) comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Major Michael Hogan, p. 344
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)
Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me
Variant: Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.
Source: The Best of Me
Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States
2010s, Democratic National Convention speech (2012)
Context: My father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when my brother and I were young. And even as a kid, I knew there were plenty of days when he was in pain... I knew there were plenty of mornings when it was a struggle for him to simply get out of bed.
