
Whitehouse Press Conference http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/02/20080228-2.html, after being asked about the prospect of Americans facing $4 for a gallon of gasoline (February 28, 2008)
2000s, 2008
Explaining, first, that he hadn't heard gas prices were climbing to $4, then explaining he was focused on gas prices in response to a question of what groups fund his library; press conference, February 28, 2008 Watch video http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/28/bush-falsely-claims-hes-focused-on-gas-prices/
2000s, 2008
Whitehouse Press Conference http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/02/20080228-2.html, after being asked about the prospect of Americans facing $4 for a gallon of gasoline (February 28, 2008)
2000s, 2008
“Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat.”
Interview in The Detroit News (4 December 1914)
Context: The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises … the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.
“I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.”
Interviewed by Dan Warburton, July 8, 1995. http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/birtwistle.html
Homily at the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta (23 February 2017), as quoted in "Pope: Don't put off conversion, give up a double life" at Vatican Radio (23 February 2017) http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/02/23/pope_dont_put_off_conversion,_give_up_a_double_life/1294470; also quoted in "Did Pope Francis Say It Was Better to Be an Atheist Than a Bad Catholic? at snopes.com (28 February) http://www.snopes.com/pope-francis-bad-catholics/
2010s, 2017
Context: What is scandal? Scandal is saying one thing and doing another; it is a double life, a double life. A totally double life: "I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I belong to this association and that one; but my life is not Christian, I don’t pay my workers a just wage, I exploit people, I am dirty in my business, I launder money …" A double life. And so many Christians are like this, and these people scandalize others. How many times have we heard — all of us, around the neighborhood and elsewhere — "but to be a Catholic like that, it’s better to be an atheist." It is that, scandal. You destroy. You beat down. And this happens every day, it’s enough to see the news on TV, or to read the papers. In the papers there are so many scandals, and there is also the great publicity of the scandals. And with the scandals there is destruction.
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The End of Economic Man (1939), pp. 13-14
“Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.”
Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 1.
Song lyrics, Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (1982)
" Come In http://plagiarist.com/poetry/691" (1942), st. 4, 5
General sources