“Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.”
Paul Desmond (1924–1977) American jazz musician
On contact lenses
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Interview with Time magazine, 2006
“Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.”
Paul Desmond (1924–1977) American jazz musician
On contact lenses
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Norman Spinrad book The Void Captain's Tale
Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 15 (p. 201)
Sheikh Hasina (1947) Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Sheikh giving tough warning in her introductory speech at the second Secretary Committee meeting against corruption. http://www.thedailystar.net/country/prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-warns-government-officials-against-corruption-1427209
“I just want a hot cup of coffee, black, and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Chasing Fire
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
As quoted in "A Talk with Einstein" in The Listener 54 (1955) p. 123
Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and Religion (1999)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832) French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796–1832)
p, 125
Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1824)
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted and paraphrased in "The Scoreboard" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bkEqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=000EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4731,2918286 by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Friday, June 10, 1955), p. 30 <br class="br">Baseball-related, <big><big>1950s</big></big>, <big>1955</big> <br class="br">Context: "I no play so gut yet," the Puerto Rican star tried to explain yesterday. "Me like hot weather, veree hot. I no run fast cold weather. No get warm in cold. No get warm, no play gut. You see." Clemente likes Forbes Field and Connie Mack Stadium the best of all the parks he's played in but has a strong dislike for Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds because of the crazy bounces the balls take as they ricochet off the walls.