“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author
TIME (18 July 1983)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.
“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author
TIME (18 July 1983)
Nancy Grace (1959) American legal commentator, television host, television journalist, and former prosecutor
" Jacko Not Guilty: "I'm Having A Little Crow Sandwich," CNN's Nancy Grace Says https://web.archive.org/web/20100807182604/http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/jacko_not_guilty_im_having_a_little_crow_sandwich_cnns_nancy_grace_says_22536.asp", TVNewser.com (Jun 14, 2005).
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2016, DNC Address (July 2016)
Context: Time and again, you’ve picked me up. And I hope, sometimes, I picked you up, too. And tonight, I ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me. I ask you to carry her the same way you carried me. Because you're who I was talking about 12 years ago when I talked about hope. It’s been you who fueled my dogged faith in our future, even when the odds were great; even when the road is long. Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope.
America, you've vindicated that hope these past eight years. And now I’m ready to pass the baton and do my part as a private citizen. So this year, in this election, I’m asking you to join me — to reject cynicism and reject fear, and to summon what is best in us; to elect Hillary Clinton as the next President of the United States, and show the world we still believe in the promise of this great nation.
GG Allin (1956–1993) American singer-songwriter
GG Allin on The Jerry Springer Show, May 5. 1993.
On The Jerry Springer Show
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Loves Me Like a Rock
Song lyrics, There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973)