Quotes about anybody
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“I'm Irish!… When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.”

Morgan Llywelyn (1937) Irish writer

Pain, Feeling, Dead

“You killed more people than anybody in history."

"Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

People, History

“Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar. Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Love, Heart

“Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.”

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

People, Feeling, Speed

“You can’t blame me,” Ascanio said. “Anybody in my place would be concerned. You don’t even have a proper horse. You’re riding a mutant equine of unknown origin.”
“Don’t disrespect my donkey”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Horse

“… remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Fate

“My mother wasnʹt sleeping with anybody. She doesnʹt even sleep with my father.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Sleep

“I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 17
Context: Later, hiding in the latrine from the black boys, I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

“It's easy to win. Anybody can win.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

Source: Wild Open Spaces: Why We Love Westerns

Hate, Soul, Lying, Idea

“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”

Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic

Understanding

“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Life, Change, Sad

“Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God, Help, Madness

“She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance. Poppy-and-James.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

Dance

“anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake.

at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Princess on the Brink

God, Parent, Princess

“She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Passion

“Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.”

Florence King (1936–2016) American writer

Source: Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

“Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

People, Stupidity

“The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Problem

“I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

“you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Love

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”

Thornton Wilder Our Town

Source: Our Town

“With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Women, Men, Age, Way

“Try to see yourself with power. Not power so that you can get even with anybody else. Power so that you can become even with your vision- Maya Angelo”

Willa Shalit (1955) American artist

Source: Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female

“Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.”

Louise Fitzhugh book Harriet the Spy

Source: Harriet the Spy

“You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.”

August Wilson (1945–2005) American playwright

“You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.”

Wallace Stegner book Angle of Repose

Source: Angle of Repose

Thinking

“I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Variant: I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.

Hate, School

“Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

People, Sense

“He [Nico] regarded Jason, as if waiting for an attack. 'If the others found out-'
'If the others found out,' Jason said, 'You'd have that many more people to back you up, and to unleash the fury of the gods on anybody who gives you trouble.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

God, People, Waiting

“I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody…”

Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman

Source: Go Set a Watchman

Wealth

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”

Armistead Maupin book More Tales of the City

Source: More Tales of the City

Men, Fools, Hell, Thinking

“The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Life, Childhood

“Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Stupidity, Hope

“They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Happiness, Nature

“If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Thinking, Sense, Personality

“Oh, I'm starting to cry again. That's what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can't explain why it isn't… I don't think it's something anybody knows.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Life, Thinking, Cry

“Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.”

Mark Polish (1970) American film actor, screenwriter and producer

Love, People

“Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Source: Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

“Nakata's empty inside… Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Housing

“God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it”

Jim Cymbala (1959) author, pastor

God, Memory, Past, Forgetting

“It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Source: The Bean Trees

People, Thinking

“But hardly anybody ever finds out that their actions really, actually, hurt other people! People don’t get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don’t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

People, Thinking, Hurt

“It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for… it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?”

Alan Moore book Batman: The Killing Joke

Source: Batman: The Killing Joke

“I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22 (1961)

“That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Love, Beauty, Feeling

“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Thinking

“And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

God

“I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.”

Holly Black book Doll Bones

Source: Doll Bones

Thinking, Chance, Hurt

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Bluebird
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
Context: there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see you.
... I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
... he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
... and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?

Heart

“Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'

'Will you be all right?'

'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.”

Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Love, Dreams, Courage, Passion

“Lothaire said, “I have a much better plan.”
“Why help him?” Thad asked pointedly. “When you don’t help anybody else?”
Lothaire exhaled ruefully. “Incurable romantic.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Help

“It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”

Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage

Source: Murder at the Vicarage

Secret

“Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Love, Pain, Way

“The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.”

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965) Japanese author

Heart

“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.”

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union

As quoted in Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941) by Irving Stone, Ch. 6

Boy, Funny

“I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Feeling, Hurt, Cry

“If God only used perfect people, nohting would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

God, People, Perfection

“We can get you a throne with snakes. I’ll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the petitioners with his vomit. It’ll be great…”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Fear

“Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.”

Dennis Potter (1935–1994) English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist

Source: The Singing Detective

“No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Money, People, World

“I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Lecture, The Anti-Slavery Movement http://books.google.pt/books?id=wN9Dj-_wM0IC&pg=PA33&dq=%22I+would+unite+with+anybody+to+do+right+and+with+nobody+to+do+wrong.%22&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22I%20would%20unite%20with%20anybody%20to%20do%20right%20and%20with%20nobody%20to%20do%20wrong.%22&f=false (1855) 1850s Variant: I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.

“For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.”

Angela Carter The Passion of New Eve

Source: The Passion of New Eve

“On Tuesday, when it hails and snows,
The feeling on me grows and grows
That hardly anybody knows
If those are these or these are those.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Feeling

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Beauty, Art, Thinking, Beauty

“The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

Law

“I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Happiness, Books, Drawing

“I never voted for anybody. I always voted against.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

As recounted by Robert Lewis Taylor in W.C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes
Variant: I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

“I love Jere more than anybody. He’s my brother, my family. I hate myself for doing this. But when I see you two together, I hate him too.” His voice broke.
“Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Love, Hate, Family

“Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.”

Chuck Klosterman (1972) Author, Columnist

“Weapons are allowed. Dirty tricks are expected. But try not to kill anybody!” Tantalus smiled at us like we were all naughty children. “Any killing will result in harsh punishment. No s’mores at the campfire for a week! Now ready your chariots!”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Children, Smile

“I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it's hell.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

Source: As quoted in My Fellow Americans : The Most Important Speeches of America's Presidents (2003) by Michael Waldman, p. 137

Truth, Hell, Thinking

“Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Love, Soul, Nature

“agony sometimes changes
form
but
it never ceases for
anybody.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Change

“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”

Maya Angelou book Mom & Me & Mom

Source: Mom & Me & Mom

Way, Mother's Day, For Mother

“Listen boy
Don't want to see you let a good thing
Slip away.
You know I don't like watching
Anybody make the same mistakes
I made.
She's a real nice girl
And she's always there for you.
But a nice girl wouldn't tell you what you should do.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

Tell Her About It.
Song lyrics, An Innocent Man (1983)

Girl, Boy

“There are certain guys that are band players and there's certain guys that ain't. If there's anybody lazier than me, it's Eric (Clapton).”

Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

Mojo magazine; reported in " In quotes: Keith Richards http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6526133.stm", BBC (April 4, 2007).

Guy

“You never understand anybody that loves you.”

Ernest Hemingway book Islands in the Stream

Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 21 (the last sentence of the novel)
Islands in the Stream (1970)

Love, Understanding

“No, no. Bill should play two or three more years. Talk to him. Tell him he can get in shape. I know he can play better second base than anybody. He is two years younger than I am. He is the greatest second baseman of all time, a real super star. But people forget too fast what he has done for the Pirates. Nobody I ever saw could field with him. He won the World Series with his home run against the Yankees. I don't like to see him retire.”

Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player

As quoted in "Sidelights on Sports: Monday Morning's Sports Wash" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XOANAAAAIBAJ&sjid=u2wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7387%2C128274 by Al Abrams, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Monday, October 2, 1972), p. 24 Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1972</big>

People, World, Home, Star

“We cannot have the government or the Labor party go to the next election with a person leading the party and a person floating around as the potential alternative leader. Anybody who enters the ballot tonight should do it on the following conditions: that if you win you're Labor leader, that if you lose you retire from politics.”

Julia Gillard (1961) Australian politician and lawyer, 27th Prime Minister of Australia

Calling for a vote of confidence "Australia politics: Gillard, Rudd in leadership vote" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23058602, in BBC News website, 26 June 2013

Personality

“The phone rang.
It was a thing that had been sitting here, black and quiet like a holstered gun, unlisted, unknown to anybody, used only for local outgoing calls, and when it was triggered it had the soft, muted sound of a silenced automatic. The first ring was a warning sound. The second time would be death calling.”

Mickey Spillane book Black Alley

Black Alley (1996)

Death, Silence, Time

“If you will take the second chapter — let me have the book. [Reaches for a Bible. ] The fourth verse of the second chapter says: "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth, when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens," the word day there in the very next chapter is used to describe a period. I do not see that there is any necessity for construing the words, "the evening and the morning," as meaning necessarily a 24-hour day, "in the day when the Lord made the heaven and the earth."… I think it would be just as easy for the kind of God we believe in to make the earth in six days as in six years or in 6 million years or in 600 million years. I do not think it important whether we believe one or the other. … My impression is they were periods, but I would not attempt to argue against anybody who wanted to believe in literal days.”

William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925) United States Secretary of State

Scopes Trial (1925), Day 7

God, Books, Thinking

“Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Works and Days
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Money, Time

“You have to just do your thing. As long as you don't hurt anybody along the way.”

Heidi Klum (1973) German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and actress

Discussing dealing with criticism. Quoted in Page Six Magazine, 10 September 2009 https://archive.is/20130630011543/www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20090910/Heidi+Klum+Talks+Seal+Karl+Lagerfeld+and+Project+Runway.

Way, Hurt

“I came to the understanding that individually we are responsible for the way in which we live and for the care of our human frame by good nutrition, proper exercise and a balanced lifestyle. It is this, together with a strong focused mind, that enables us to draw from our vast inner resources and strength to make the most of our time on this planet. The changes in my life came by way of a massive physical and psychological shock and were implemented for the purpose of healing and motivating my recovery. A change in our diet and lifestyle of course can be started at any time, and is of interest to anybody wishing to maximise their health and vitality, leading to a more fulfilling life. This was how I discovered the benefits of cutting meat and dairy from my diet and then taking the correct care of my body’s nutritional requirements to help heal my mind, body and soul.”

Heather Mills (1968) former glamour model, activist

"Discovering Veganism", in heathermills.org (2016) http://www.heathermills.org/veganism/

Life, Health, Way, Exercises

“I'm a very driven person. I'm always going after my goals. You just get up in the morning and kick yourself in the butt. I'd like to show people that they can have that same drive to go where they want to go. It's up to you and not to anybody else.”

Heidi Klum (1973) German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and actress

Quoted in Parade Magazine 10 July 2008 http://www.parade.com/celebrity/celebrity-parade/archive/pc_0194.html.

People, Personality

“I really had to come to the conclusion, the sort of humbling conclusion that, guess what, I'm no different than anybody else, I've got to sort of ask for help not something I ever did, ever. And then part two of that is, like, accept it when it comes and, you know, believe what people tell me. And trusting in what I have been told, and then seeing that work.”

Chris Cornell (1964–2017) American singer-songwriter, musician

On what led him to check himself into rehab in 2002, quoted in ** What Would CHRIS CORNELL Tell Himself At 18? 'Don't Drink', Blabbermouth, 4 November 2011 http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/what-would-chris-cornell-tell-himself-at-18-don-t-drink/, Soundgarden Era

People, Help, Parting

“Yeah, especially this postmortem trip when people die and then everybody writes about what they felt that person is going through. It's really surprising to me that anyone can think that they have those kinds of insights or spend that much time really worrying about somebody else. I think they should spend more time trying to figure out who they are. That's my whole trip. I can't imagine anybody knowing me through my lyrics, because I don't particularly feel like I know myself. And I have more than the benefit of just lyrics to go on.”

Chris Cornell (1964–2017) American singer-songwriter, musician

On people thinking that they have a connection with a band or a person through their lyrics ** Interview with Request Magazine, October 1994 http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/request_10-94.shtml, Soundgarden Era

People, Feeling, Imagination, Thinking

“Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.”

Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet

Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 9

Fools, Thinking, Indifference

“Finally Jones came in with a blinding fastball, the way Sad Sam used to throw ’em, and Clemente unloaded. The wind was blowing in from left field that day, and blowing hard. This was 1960, remember, before the fences had been moved in, and nobody was hitting home runs at Candlestick. Not Mays, not Cepeda, not anybody. Clemente’s bat hit the ball, and the result absolutely clubbed the crowd into awed silence for a long moment. Right into that wet whipping wind the ball carried. Right on through, hit 120 feet high in a long soaring majestic parabola that came down finally over 450 feet away. There is just no way of telling how far Clemente’s home run blast would have traveled had it not been for that wind. Suffice it to say partisan Giant fans suddenly broke their shell-shocked silence and let loose a gagantic roar. For two innings the stadium buzzed. For days the Giants talked about it. Even today if you slip up behind a Giant pitcher and suddenly whisper in his ear: ‘Remember the home run Clemente hit?’ he’s likely to jump as high as if he’d been caught putting spit on baseballs.”

Arnold Hano (1922) American writer

From "Roberto Clemente: Arriba!" in Baseball Stars of 1962 (March 1962), edited by Ray Robinson, p. 115
Sports-related

Sadness, Way, Travel, Home

“I've never really had bad chemistry with anybody. And I think you just really have to be open.”

Jason Biggs (1978) American actor

Interview with Larry Smith, basis for Bigg's character on the show Orange Is the New Black, interview excerpted in: — [December 4, 2014, http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/07/16/larry-smith-jason-biggs-orange-is-the-new-black/, Jason Biggs talks 'Orange is the New Black' with real-life Larry, Ariana Bacle, July 16, 2014, Entertainment Weekly]

Thinking

“I created myself, and I'll attack anybody I feel like.”

Edward Albee (1928–2016) American playwright

Shoptalk: Conversations About Theater and Film with Twelve Writers, One Producer — and Tennessee Williams' Mother by Dennis Brown (1993), Ch. 6 : A Certain Amount of Spleen, p. 121

Feeling

“The Nazi agitator whom, many years ago, I heard proclaim to a wildly cheering peasants’ meeting: ‘We don’t want lower bread prices, we don’t want higher bread prices, we don’t want unchanged bread prices—we want National-Socialist bread prices,’ came nearer explaining fascism than anybody I have heard since.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The End of Economic Man (1939), pp. 13-14

“I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star. I didn’t know anybody. I wanted to dance. I wanted to sing. I wanted to do all those things. I wanted to make people happy. I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

(Spoken at the beginning of the Virgin Tour concert video).

Love, Happiness, People, Dreams

“The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.”

Ricky Hatton (1978) English former professional boxer

Sugar Ray Leonard predicting a Ricky Hatton win if he fought Floyd Mayweather.Tuesday, 6 February 2007. http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/6336815.stm Other boxers on Ricky(Sourced)

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