“I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me... Painting is silence.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
Interview with Power 105.1 (23 February 2012), as quoted in TMZ http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/23/dmx-hates-drake-radio-interview/. <br class="br">2010s, 2012
“I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me... Painting is silence.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“I don’t like rats but there’s not much else I don’t like.”
David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist
Interview in Metro 29 Jan 2013
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
This quote was attributed to Darrow in the biography Clarence Darrow for the Defence (1949), but its earliest known source is from a journal entry of George Sand from 1835.
Misattributed
“I just don’t like it, for extremely large values of don’t and like.”
Charles Stross book Iron Sunrise
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 15, “Preparing for Ghosts and Dogs” (p. 251)
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 30, Colonel Sanders
Context: Listen- God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like-they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American chomping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o - God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it.
“I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer