“Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.”
Franz Halder (1884–1972) German general
Explaining his fear of Hitler, from "The Guardian," July 11, 2004.
Sourced Encyclopedia of the Third Reich Louis L. Snyder
“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.”
"Sitting on the Bench" (1961)
Beyond the Fringe (1960 - 1966)
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Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter
I've been taken for far more rides<br>to places I've never been,<br>stabbed so many times in the back<br>I no longer feel a thing.<br>Oh, ask me what all this has taught me<br>and I'll tell you what I'll say:<br>"Hold on to what you got<br>and don't let it slip away.<br>Save it for a rainy day." <br class="br">"Hold On To What You Got" (song) <br class="br">Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Hold On To What You Got" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YYinfmOUI (song on YouTube) <br class="br"> (+ Live performance in Japan, 1992. On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nrmDG7frD4 <br class="br">Song lyrics
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
The Moaning of Life, General Quotes
Edie Sedgwick (1943–1971) Socialite, actress, model
Edie : American Girl (1982)
Context: Everything that happened to me has been a paradox for life. The very things that I should have done would have been the trap. The very things I might have given into, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I found hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. You have to work like mad to make people understand... Even if I don't make it, you know, I really insist on believing, and then I fall off the edge because there's nobody else to follow it. And I would just fall off the edge.
Jackson Browne (1948) American singer-songwriter
Take It Easy (co-written with Glenn Frey, 1971-1972), from For Everyman; previously recorded on The Eagles' album Eagles (1972)
“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
“Trapped like a trap in a trap”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
Sarah McLachlan (1968) Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter
Possession
Song lyrics, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993)
Syd Barrett (1946–2006) English musician
In response to being asked by David Gilmour what he was up to lately during an unexpected reunion in 1975, as written in Nick Mason's Inside Out