Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
Variant: I always wanted to be something, but now I see I should have been more specific.
Twitter https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1534592219533000705, 3:44 AM · Jun 9, 2022
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
Variant: I always wanted to be something, but now I see I should have been more specific.
Jimmy Carter book A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Source: A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
John Lewis (civil rights leader) (1940) American politician and civil rights leader
Source: Twitter https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1207420638748725250, (30 December 2019)
“Having now been in the trenches for five months, I had passed my prime.”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
Source: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch.16 On being in the trenches in France in 1915.
Context: Having now been in the trenches for five months, I had passed my prime. For the first three weeks, an officer was of little use in the front line... Between three weeks and four weeks he was at his best, unless he happened to have any particular bad shock or sequence of shocks. Then his usefulness gradually declined as neurasthenia developed. At six months he was still more or less all right; but by nine or ten months, unless he had been given a few weeks' rest on a technical course, or in hospital, he usually became a drag on the other company officers. After a year or fifteen months he was often worse than useless.
“I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire…”
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Book III, 3.37-[1] (Speech of Cleon..).
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III
Alyson Hannigan (1974) American actress
About.com, "American Wedding's" Bride and Groom Discuss the Third "Pie" Movie http://movies.about.com/cs/americanwedding/a/amwedjbah.htm.
“I haven't been like, "Is there a sword in that movie? All right, I'll do it!"”
Orlando Bloom (1977) British actor
Emily Blunt interview http://www.bluntreview.com/reviews/bloom.htm
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2003, Mission Accomplished (May 2003)
“I have never been in a fight where the situation wasn't desperate at one point, colonel.”
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
North and South, Book II https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=vopVVBiC80g#General_Grant_s_Strategies (1986). <br class="br">In fiction, <span class="plainlinks"> North and South, Book II http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090490/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast (1986)</span>