“I love you. That'll be the ending of this under the words.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
This Is It
Recommended quotes page 69
“I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay!”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in a letter to her psychiatrist, Dr. Greenson, in 1961. Fragments, by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment (2010)
“If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.”
Iggy Pop (1947) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
An earlier statement, quoted in the article.
Rolling Stone interview (2003)
Iggy Pop (1947) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
and then go from there.
Rolling Stone interview (2003)
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
Edgar Allan Poe book The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1845)
“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: NOS4A2
“You will always be poor, if you are poor, Aemilianus. Wealth is given to-day to none save the rich.”
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
Martial book Epigrammata
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
V, 81 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles
Source: The Song of Achilles
Houston Stewart Chamberlain book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts) (1899)
Epicurus (-341–-269 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
Sovereign Maxims
Context: It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life. (5)
Nicolaus Copernicus book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Alternate translation: Then in the middle of all stands the sun. For who, in our most beautiful temple, could set this light in another or better place, than that from which it can at once illuminate the whole? Not to speak of the fact that not unfittingly do some call it the light of the world, others the soul, still others the governor. Tremigistus calls it the visible God; Sophocles' Electra, the All-seer. And in fact does the sun, seated on his royal throne, guide his family of planets as they circle round him.
Book 1, Ch. 10, Alternate translation as quoted in Edwin Arthur Burtt in The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1925)
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
Context: At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. For, in this most beautiful temple, who would place this lamp in another or better position than that from which it can light up the whole thing at the same time? For, the sun is not inappropriately called by some people the lantern of the universe, its mind by others, and its ruler by still others. The Thrice Greatest labels it a visible god, and Sophocles' Electra, the all-seeing. Thus indeed, as though seated on a royal throne, the sun governs the family of planets revolving around it.
Emmanuel Macron (1977) 25th President of the French Republic
22 February 2017 https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/politique/sante-handicap-et-refugies-jean-claude-ameisen-debat-avec-emmanuel-macron_110755 <br class="br">2017 <br class="br">Original: (fr) Nous sommes entrés dans un monde de grandes migrations. Et on en aura de plus en plus. Parce que la planète est en profond déséquilibre, nous auront dans les décennies qui viennent des migrations dues à des conflits géopolitiques qui vont continuer à se jouer et nous aurons des migrations climatiques... La France ne pourra pas l'endiguer... des phénomènes migratoires beaucoup plus forts que ce qu'on a vécu avec la Syrie.
“Leave this world a little better than you found it.”
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
Baden-Powell's Last Message (1941)
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell book Animal Farm
Sometimes paraphrased as "Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear."
Variant: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Source: Original preface to Animal Farm; as published in George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography (1953) by Ian R. Willison
“Life ain't a rehearsal, the camera's always rolling”
Drake (1986) Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor
"Miss Me", Thank Me Later, Lil Wayne (2010)
2010s
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet