“I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings
And I've never been too impressed”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Street-Legal (1978), Is Your Love In Vain?
“I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings
And I've never been too impressed”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Street-Legal (1978), Is Your Love In Vain?
Neil Diamond (1941) American singer-songwriter
I've Been This Way Before
Song lyrics, Serenade (1974)
Jiang Zemin (1926) former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
To Hong Konger reporters (2000), as quoted in "Rare Footage of Former China Leader Jiang Zemin Freak Out (With English Subs!)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GIj2BVJS2A (2013), China Uncensored. <br class="br">2000s
R.S. Thomas (1913–2000) Welsh poet
"R. S. Thomas in conversation with Molly Price-Owen" in The David Jones Journal R. S. Thomas Special Issue (Summer/Autumn 2001)
Context: True Christianity at its most profound is as good as you get. … I think I've been lucky in the period which I've lived through because obviously I would have been for the chop in earlier days. The Inquisition would have rooted me out; even in the 19th century I would probably have been had up by a Bishop and asked to change my views, or to keep them to myself etc.... I think that so much of our Christian beliefs … are an attempt to convey through language something which is unsayable.
“I've been waiting to be arrested all day. I'm disappointed!”
Eddie Mair (1965) Scottish broadcaster
[Mair replies] "We're all with you on that one."
Reporter waiting to be arrested on cycle-path (a woman jogger had been arrested and cautioned earlier that week)[citation needed]
From PM and Broadcasting House
Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer
Source: Sweethearts
Lynn Compton book Call of Duty
Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), Preamble
Eddie Mair (1965) Scottish broadcaster
Reporter waiting to be arrested on cycle-path (a woman jogger had been arrested and cautioned earlier that week)
From PM and Broadcasting House