Hiromu Arakawa (1973) award winning Japanese manga artist
Interview with mobuta.com (2004)
Wired, May 1996
Repeated quotation, on many issues, including Microsoft and the BeBox
Hiromu Arakawa (1973) award winning Japanese manga artist
Interview with mobuta.com (2004)
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
Hard Headed Woman
Song lyrics, Tea for the Tillerman (1970)
“The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.”
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA
As quoted in "10 questions for Lance Armstrong" by Bill Saporito in TIME magazine (28 September 2003) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1005777,00.html <br class="br">Context: I'm not happy if I'm not doing some physical suffering, like going out on a bike ride or running. First, it's good for you. No. 2, it sort of clears my mind on a daily basis. And it's a job. My job is to suffer. I make the suffering in training hard so that the races are not full of suffering.
Charlotte Elliott (1789–1871) English poet, hymn writer, editor
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 615.
Erika Jayne (1969) American singer, actress and television personality
"Roller Coaster"
Song lyrics, Pretty Mess (2009)
Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont
2010s, Liberty University Speech (14 September 2015)
“A hard beginning makes a good ending.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
“Easy writing makes hard reading.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
As quoted in Paris Was Our Mistress (1947) by Samuel Putnam, p. 128