“Do you work at the grocery store? Then why are you checking me out?”
Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer
Source: Best Friends for Never
4 February 2017 https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/828091310380838913,
“Do you work at the grocery store? Then why are you checking me out?”
Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer
Source: Best Friends for Never
Michelle Branch (1983) American singer-songwriter and guitarist
"All You Wanted"
2000s, The Spirit Room (2001)
Context: I wanted, to be like you. I wanted, everything. So, I tried. To be like you, and I got swept away. I didn't know that it was so cold and, you needed someone to show you the way. So I took your hand and we figured out, that when the time comes? I'd take you away. If you want to? I can save you; I can take you away from here. So lonely inside; so busy out there. And all you wanted, was somebody who cares.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977) Indian guru
Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 1 - Los Angeles, May 3, 1970. Vanipedia http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/If_you_want_to_love_God,_there_is_nothing_throughout_the_whole_world_which_can_check_you._Simply_you_have_to_develop_your_eagerness:_%22Krsna,_I_want_You.%22_That%27s_all._Then_there_is_no_question_of_checking <br class="br">Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: Loving God
“Check you out,' said Magnus. 'My famous boyfriend, inspiration to the masses.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: Born to Endless Night
“What’s your name?”
“What do you want it to be?”
“Are you a vampire?”
“Not the last time I checked.”
Kresley Cole book The Warlord Wants Forever
Source: The Warlord Wants Forever
Erika Jayne (1969) American singer, actress and television personality
Interview to L'Officiel (2018)
Justin Trudeau (1971) 23rd Prime Minister of Canada; eldest son of Pierre Trudeau
Statement in Calgary, Alberta, a region where the Liberals have long struggled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_alienation to gain electoral foothold, on the province's Heritage Day holiday, August 3, 2015. As quoted in Macleans https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/exorcising-the-ghost-of-trudeau-past/ discussing the subject of the lingering influence of the Trudeau name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Energy_Program in Western Canada.
“He must be checked. We want no Caesars.”
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India
Article in Modern Review (1936) by a pseudonymous author signing himself "Chanakya", later revealed to have been Nehru himself; as quoted in TIME magazine : "Clear-Eyed Sister" (3 January 1955) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,892893,00.html & "The Uncertain Bellwether" (30 July 1956) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867026-8,00.html <br class="br">Context: The most effective pose is one in which there seems to be the least of posing, and Jawahar had learned well to act without the paint and powder of an actor … What is behind that mask of his? … what will to power? … He has the power in him to do great good for India or great injury … Men like Jawaharlal, with all their capacity for great and good work, are unsafe in a democracy.<br>He calls himself a democrat and a socialist, and no doubt he does so in all earnestness, but every psychologist knows that the mind is ultimately slave to the heart … Jawahar has all the makings of a dictator in him — vast popularity, a strong will, ability, hardness, an intolerance for others and a certain contempt for the weak and inefficient … In this revolutionary epoch, Caesarism is always at the door. Is it not possible that Jawahar might fancy himself as a Caesar? … He must be checked. We want no Caesars.
“Well, check this out. Mine is bigger.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
Joe Bob Briggs (1953) American film critic, writer, and actor; alter ego of John Bloom
Used as the final sentence in all reviews except the very earliest. <br class="br">Example: Ice Pirates Review http://www.joebobbriggs.com/drivein/1984/icepirates.htm <br class="br">Repeated phrases