A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) British politician
Speech to Parliament, 1930s; quoted by Bernard Levin in The Pendulum Years (1970).
Source: City of Bones
A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) British politician
Speech to Parliament, 1930s; quoted by Bernard Levin in The Pendulum Years (1970).
“I bet you can't eat ten bananas!"
"I bet you're right.”
Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby
Source: This Lullaby
“I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.”
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.”
Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that?”
Maggie Nelson (1973) American writer
Source: The Argonauts
Damon Runyon (1880–1946) writer
From the short story The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown, Collier's Weekly, January 28, 1933. Used with slightly different wording in the musical Guys and Dolls -- both the 1950 stage and the 1955 film versions.
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's somebody nobody knows about”
Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker