“I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
Last words to her personal secretary (Elizabeth Salter) as she was being carried into an ambulance.
The Last Years of a Rebel (1967)
“I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
Last words to her personal secretary (Elizabeth Salter) as she was being carried into an ambulance.
The Last Years of a Rebel (1967)
“I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
“Everyone has things they're afraid of. It's part of being human.”
Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight
Source: Lady Midnight
George Raymond Richard Martin (1948) American writer, screenwriter and television producer
At Tuscon 43 http://dndjourneyofthefifthedition.podbean.com/e/tuscon-43-an-hour-with-george-r-r-martin/ (2016)
“I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.”
Alfred Jules Ayer (1910–1989) English philosopher
A statement he made soon after recovering from his near-death experience, as reported by Dr. Jeremy George, in "Did atheist philosopher see God when he 'died'?" by William Cash, in National Post (3 March 2001) http://gonsalves.org/favorite/atheist.htm.
“I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.”
LeBron James (1984) American basketball player
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Full text of Blair's speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3697434.stm, BBC News online <br class="br">Speech to the Labour Party Conference, 28 September 2004, referring to the fact that no WMDs had been found in Iraq. <br class="br">2000s