Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Giving Labor The Business, p. 122
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
A collection of quotes on the topic of bust, doing, likeness, people.
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Giving Labor The Business, p. 122
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
Justin Bieber (1994) Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor
Referring to himself, during a skit on SNL’s the Miley Cyrus Show, as quoted in Huffington Post "Justin Bieber Apologizes For Smoking Weed On 'Saturday Night Live'" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/justin-bieber-apologizes-smoking-weed_n_2657314.html, February 2013
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“She rose and followed her bust from the room.”
Margery Allingham (1904–1966) English writer of detective fiction
Erik Satie (1866–1925) French composer and pianist
Étude pour un buste de M. Erik SATIE peint par lui-même, avec une pensée: je suis venu au monde très jeune dans un temps très vieux.
Written to accompany a self-portrait caricature drawn by himself - see image
General quotes
“The busts of twenty most illustrious families were borne in the procession, with the names of Manlius, Quinctius, and others of equal rank. But Cassius and Brutus outshone them all, from the very fact that their likenesses were not to be seen.”
Viginti clarissimarum familiarum imagines antelatae sunt, Manlii, Quinctii aliaque eiusdem nobilitatis nomina. sed praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso quod effigies eorum non visebantur.
Book III, 76; Church-Brodribb translation <br class="br">According to Lippincott's Monthly Magazine https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=P8pGAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA872|:<br><br>This line is the origin of Lord John Russell's phrase "Conspicuous by its absence"; of which Russell said "It is not an original expression of mine, but is taken from one of the greatest historians of antiquity". Similar phrases also are found in the tragedy Tiberius of Joseph Chénier and in Les Hommes Illustres of Charles Perrault. <br class="br">Annals (117)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Barack Obama: "The President's News Conference With Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Untied Kingdom in London, England," April 1, 2009. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=85953&st=&st1= <br class="br">2009
Sonny Bill Williams (1985) New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer
Williams on the controversial nature of his flitting between football codes. Sonny Bill Williams regrets nothing http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/sonny-bill-williams-regrets-nothing-20131129-2yfvd.html, by Brad Walter, Sydney Morning Herald, dated 29 November 2013.
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
Miracle Man, written by Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde and Bob Daisley
Song lyrics, No Rest for the Wicked (1988)
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Slays
“We must — we must — we must increase our bust!”
Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret. (1970)
Source: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
“All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Reborn
Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) French writer
Tout passe.
L'art robuste
Seul a l'éternité,
Le buste
Survit à la cité.
Et la médaille austère
Que trouve un laboureur
Sous terre
Révèle un empereur.
All passes, art alone
Enduring stays to us;
The bust outlasts the throne, —
The coin, Tiberius.
"L'Art", line 41, in Émaux et Camées (1852; Genève: Librairie Droz, 1947) pp. 131-2; Dean de la Motte and Jeannene M. Przyblyski (eds.) Making the News (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999) p. 144; Henry Austin Dobson "Ars Victrix", line 29, in The Complete Poetical Works of Austin Dobson (Whitefish, Montana: Kessenger, 2005) p. 142.
T.S. Eliot book Poems
"Whispers of Immortality"; "Grishkin" has been identified by Ezra Pound as having been "Serafima Astafieva" a Russian dancer.
Poems (1920)
Dan Flores (1948) American historian
The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (2003)
“We will not return to the old boom and bust.”
Gordon Brown (1951) British Labour Party politician
Brown's 11th Budget Speech https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070321/debtext/70321-0004.htm. 21 Mar 2007 <br class="br">Chancellor of the Exchequer <br class="br">Variant: Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.
Jack Valenti (1921–2007) President of the MPAA
Testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives on copyright immunities for ISPs. (7 February 1996) http://www.judiciary.house.gov/legacy/461.htm
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Letter to J. C. C. Davidson (13 November 1930), quoted in Robert Rhodes James (ed.), Memoirs of a Conservative: J. C. C. Davidson's Memoirs and Papers, 1910-1937 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 355.
1930
George Darley (1795–1846) Irish poet, novelist, and critic
Poem The Loveliness of Love http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~ridge/local/iinbid.html
Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) sculptor from France
Quote in Maillol's letter, 14th May 1887; as cited in Renoir – his life and work, Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates /Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1975, p. 245-246
Samantha Bee (1969) Canadian comedic actress and author
Full Frontal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bvl6spBVEc, February 15, 2016
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
And it is. <br class="br"> "Garrison Keillor: God help us. We’re in trouble down here." in The Washington Post (26 July 2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/god-help-us-were-in-trouble-down-here/2016/07/26/989cde08-535d-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html
Clay Shirky (1964) American technology writer
Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream (2015)
Ilana Mercer South African writer
"Party of Traitors," http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50375 WorldNetDaily.com, May 26, 2006. <br class="br">2000s, 2006
Norman Mailer book The Presidential Papers
The Sixth Presidential Paper — A Kennedy Miscellany : An Impolite Interview
The Presidential Papers (1963)
John Prescott (1938) Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007)
A statement made in Witham, Essex during the 2005 general election, as quoted in "Ducking and diving, ageing prize-fighter still fears the sucker punch" by Ben Macintyre, The Times (13 April 2005), p. 23
“If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) comedian and social critic
Lenny Bruce http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3345229.stm
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"57 Channels"
Song lyrics, Human Touch (1992)
“Moonlighting was funny, innovative, genre-busting chaos. Also, apparently, unsustainable. Sigh.”
Jane Espenson (1964) American television writer and producer
Ain't It Cool News interview (17 July 2003) http://www.whedon.info/Jane-Espenson-Buffy-Tv-Series.h
Arthur Guiterman (1871–1943) United States writer
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/24.html
Stephenie LaGrossa (1978) American television personality
"I Played the Game the Way It Was Designed to Be Played": An Interview with Survivor: Guatemala's Stephenie http://www.realitynewsonline.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article5924.art&page=1, Reality News Online, 12 December 2005.
Waylon Jennings (1937–2002) American country music singer, songwriter, and musician
Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand, from I've Always Been Crazy (1978).
Song lyrics
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"
Song lyrics, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973)
Jane Brereton (1685–1740) Welsh writer (b. Flintshire 1685)
On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope., in Dyce, Specimens of British Poetesses. This epigram is generally ascribed to Chesterfield. See Campbell, English Poets, note, p. 521. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Linda McQuaig (1951) journalist and author
All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism (2001)
Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician
Fox Business Network, October 14, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qzUtPq8pLE <br class="br">2000s, 2006-2009
Kevin Carson (1963) American academic
Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective (2008), Chapter 9
Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective (2008)
Roger Garrison (1944) American economist
cf. Lucas 1981, pp. 225 and 231
Page 95.
"New Classical and Old Austrian Economics", 1991
Albert Speer (1905–1981) German architect, Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany
Funk's extravagant words contrasted grotesquely with the actual situation. The whole thing was a ghostly celebration taking place against a background of collapse and ruin.
Source: Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs (1970), p. 322
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"No Surrender"
Song lyrics, Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
“She bets the doubles and the parlays, a guaranteed way to stay busted.”
John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, (1966)
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey, Some Account of the Life and Opinions of Charles, Second Earl Grey (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), pp. 10-11.
1830s
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 67
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Quoted in A. J. Sylvester's diary entry (3 October 1940), Colin Cross (ed.), Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45 (London: Macmillan, 1975), p. 281
Later life
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
comment after the Olympic Closing Ceremonies in 1996
2007, 2008
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
Circa June 1923, on observing a young Lou Gehrig—almost two years prior to commencing his record-breaking consecutive game streak—take batting practice; as quoted in The Babe Ruth Story https://books.google.com/books?id=5mu1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22that+kid+sure+can+bust+%27em%22+intitle:The+intitle:Babe+intitle:Ruth+intitle:Story&dq=%22that+kid+sure+can+bust+%27em%22+intitle:The+intitle:Babe+intitle:Ruth+intitle:Story&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHhvezyoHcAhVm2oMKHZsSAfAQ6AEIKTAA (1948) by Ruth (as told to Bob Considine), p. 130. In the book, Ruth notes that his statement had evidently given rise to Gehrig's now largely forgotten nickname Buster (the latter having first appeared in print on February 29th, the following year https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B71SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YH0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5967%2C5402147&dq=yankee-includes-lou-gehrig), adding that, despite having long since been eclipsed by such handles as "The Iron Horse" and even "Larrupin' Lou," Gehrig's lesser-known moniker did indeed have its heyday during the early years of his Yankee tenure https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=%22buster+gehrig%22&dr_year=1925-1929. (Not surprisingly, this heyday entailed a good deal of Ruth/Gehrig alliteration, along the lines of "The Buster and the Babe" https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=gehrig+%22the+buster+and+the+babe%22&dr_year=1927-1937 and "the Big Bam and the Boy Buster" https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=Ruth+Gehrig+%22big+bam%22+%22boy+buster%22&dr_year=1927-1928.)
Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist
In a column for The Sun newspaper http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/7095695/UK-and-America-can-better-friends-than-ever-Mr-Obama-if-we-LEAVE-the-EU-says-Boris-Johnson.html, 22 April 2016. <br class="br">2010s, 2016
Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian
Do You Believe in Gosh?
Edward German (1862–1936) English musician and composer
In a letter to his sister, describing his observations from a trip to Germany of the cult-like status given the Kaiser.
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
I thank God for Elvis.
US magazine (24 August 1987); on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, as reported in Bob Dylan: Performing Artist 1986–1990 and Beyond, Mind out of Time (2009)
“A rolling stone, that gathers no moss, but leaves a trail of busted stuff.”
Dave Matthews (1967) American singer-songwriter, musician and actor
Busted Stuff
Busted Stuff (2002)
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist
"The Streak of Streaks", pp. 186–187; originally published in The New York Review of Books (1988-08-18)
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville (2003)
Wheeler L. Baker (1938) President of Hargrave Military Academy
Source: Crisis Management: A Model For Managers (1993), p. 12
David Irving (1938) British writer and Holocaust denier
David Irving's Talk to the Clarendon Club http://www.fpp.co.uk/speeches/speech190992.html
“In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.”
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
A bust to the King's Gambit http://academicchess.org/images/pdf/chessgames/fischerbust.pdf (1960) <br class="br">1960s
Joe Kehoskie (1973) American baseball agent
On the success rate and perception of Cuban baseball defectors in MLB, from the Miami Herald article "Yoenis Cespedes may be the great unknown for Miami Marlins" http://web.archive.org/web/20120218180037/http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/12/v-fullstory/2636817/yoenis-cespedes-may-be-the-great.html by Clark Spencer (12 February 2012)
Waylon Jennings (1937–2002) American country music singer, songwriter, and musician
I've Always Been Crazy, title track from I've Always Been Crazy (1978).
Song lyrics
Neil Cavuto (1958) American television presenter
"Cavuto is tired of hearing about inherited recession, bank foreclosures and bailouts, 'blah blah blah'" http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201002030047, mediamatters.org, (February 3, 2010).
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"Thunder Road"
Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975)
Peggy Noonan (1950) American author and journalist
"Death, Taxes and Mrs. Clinton" in The Wall Street Journal (30 November 2007) http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010924
“If I had a dime for every rhymer that bust guns, I'd have a cool mill' for my sons in trust funds.”
MF Doom (1971) hip hop artist from America
As MF DOOM, "Kon Queso", MM..Food? (2004)
Sourced Lines
Nigel Farage (1964) British politician and former commodity broker
Segment from an article on the UKIP website, 29 June 2012. Welcome to the D€bt Union http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/2703-welcome-to-the-deurobt-union <br class="br">2012
“They Holla Young Gunz and Young Bloodz, but Boosie he bust gunz and spit it to his loved ones.”
Lil Boosie (1982) American rapper from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
What About Me?/They Holla
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
St. 11 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economics laureate
1980s and later, Interview in Silver & Gold Report (1980)
Paul Glover (1947) Community organizer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; American politician
http://www.paulglover.org/9712.html (“Stock Market Long Range Forecast” HOUR Town, cover story), December 1997
Carl Orff (1895–1982) German composer
As quoted in Through Music to the Self : How to Appreciate and Experience Music Anew (1979) by Peter Michael Hamel, p. 18
Context: Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener bust as a co-performer. It is pre-rational, has no over-all form, no architectonics, involves no set sequences, ostinati or minor rondo-forms. Elemental Music is earthy, natural, physical, capable of being learnt and experienced by anybody, child's play.... Elemental Music, word and movement, play, every-thing that awakens and develops the powers of the soul builds up the humus of the soul, the humus without which we face spiritual soil-erosion.... we face spiritual soil-erosion when man estranges himself from the elemental and loses his balance.
Stephen Vincent Benét book The Devil and Daniel Webster
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
Context: Finally, it was time for him to get up on his feet, and he did so, all ready to bust out with lightning and denunciations. But before he started he looked over the judge and jury for a moment, such being his custom. And he noticed the glitter in their eyes was twice as strong as before, and they all leaned forward. Like hounds just before they get the fox, they thickened as he watched them. Then he saw what he'd been about to do, and he wiped his forehead, as a man might who's just escaped falling into a pit in the dark.
For it was him they'd come for, not only Jabez Stone. He read it in the glitter of their eyes and in the way the stranger hid his mouth with one hand. And if he fought them with their own weapons, he'd fall into their power; he knew that, though he couldn't have told you how. It was his own anger and horror that burned in their eyes; and he'd have to wipe that out or the case was lost. He stood there for a moment, his black eyes burning like anthracite. And then he began to speak.
Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man
Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 1.
Context: I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy’s country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion’s mouth. I want you to overcome ‘em with yeses, undermine ‘em with grins, agree ‘em to death and destruction, let ‘em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open...
Robert L. Heilbroner book The Worldly Philosophers
Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter IX, John Maynard Keynes, p. 257
Maddox (1978) American internet writer
Why change your car's oil when your girlfriend can do it? http://maddox.xmission.com/oil.html <br class="br">The Best Page in the Universe