“Chiron probably wanted me to say, Heck it wa nothing. I eat hellhounds for breakfast. But I didn't feel like lying.”
Source: The Lightning Thief
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“I am that one person
Who eats his breakfast,
Gazing at morning nothing.”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Classical Japanese Database, Translation #174 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/174 (Translation: Reginald Horace Blyth) <br class="br">Individual poems <br class="br">Original: (ja) 朝顔に<br>我は飯食ふ<br>男かな <br class="br">Original: (ja) asagao ni<br>ware wa meshi kû<br>otoko kana
Charles Bukowski book Post Office
Variant: I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing."
Source: Post Office (1971)
Sally Field (1946) American actress
Said during Field's Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in 1984's Places in the Heart
Often misquoted as "You like me, you really like me!"
The misquote was echoed by Sean Penn in his 1996 acceptance of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead in Dead Man Walking as, "You tolerate me. You really tolerate me!"
[Waxman, Sharon, The Oscar Acceptance Speech: By and Large, It's a Lost Art, Washington Post, 1999-03-21, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/movies/oscars/speeches.htm, 2006-12-31]
“When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Jake Shields (1979) American mixed martial artist
"Jake Shields talks vegetarianism, Demian Maia and Nick Diaz", interview with the Las Vegas Sun (8 October 2013) https://lasvegassun.com/news/2013/oct/08/jake-shields-talks-vegetarianism-nick-diaz/.
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
On the forming of the band U2
Rolling Stone interview (2005)