James Lee Barrett (1929–1989) Tony Award winner, screenwriter and United States Marine
Shenandoah (1965)
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987)
Context: No use to fall down on my knees
and beg for mercy's sake.
Nothing I counted mine, out of my life,
is mine to take...
James Lee Barrett (1929–1989) Tony Award winner, screenwriter and United States Marine
Shenandoah (1965)
Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer
[Blows a raspberry]
Count de Monet: Don't be saucy with me, Bearnaise.
History of the World, Part I
“You must take it; I cannot live with anything in my possession that is not mine.”
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
As quoted in The New York Times http://www.granthomepage.com/intlongstreet.htm (24 July 1885).
Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879) British poet and hymn-writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 610.
“Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.”
Tove Jansson (1914–2001) Finnish children's writer and illustrator
Source: Travelling Light
Viktor Yanukovych (1950) Ukrainian politician who was the President of Ukraine
2018
Source: * Янукович у Москві поскаржився на бідність ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQjqkefINDM ** en ** 2022-06-12
“If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer
Source: Match Me If You Can
“I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving,
England is mine and it owes me a living”
Morrissey (1959) English singer
from the song "Still Ill"
From songs