As quoted in More Sex Talk : A New Collection of Ribald, Raunchy, and Provocative Quotations (2002) by James Wolfe, p. 114; similar lines were also used in the comedic routines of Rodney Dangerfield.
“I was so poor growing up…if I wasn't a boy…I'd have nothing to play with. ”
Danny Boy
Song lyrics, Rufus Wainwright (1998)
“Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.”
Source: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 54
“I wouldn't mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge.”
Quoted in The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy (2000), p. 112, and Think, Act, and Invest Like Warren Buffett: The Winning Strategy to Help You Achieve Your Financial and Life Goals (2012), p. 22 <!-- also in -->
Context: I wouldn't mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge. … The approach and strategies [of bridge and stock investing] are very similar. In the stock market you do not base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. With bridge, you need to adhere to a disciplined bidding system. While there is no one best system, there is one that works best for you. Once you choose a system, you need to stick with it.
Variant: I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing."
Source: Post Office (1971)
"Simon Hattenston talks to Robert Crumb" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/mar/07/robertcrumb.comics, The Guardian, 7 March 2005.
2005-09-14
The Radio Factor
Fox News Talk
Radio
2005-09-16
O'Reilly wished that hurricane had flooded U.N. building, added that he "wouldn't have rescued them"
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200509160007
2011-02-23
Variant: I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
Source: Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson
