Richard R. Wright Jr. (1878–1967)
Wright Jr. 87 Years Behind the Black Curtain: An Autobiography. 1965
Richard R. Wright Jr. (1878–1967)
Wright Jr. 87 Years Behind the Black Curtain: An Autobiography. 1965
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
As quoted in When You're Strange (2009) by Tom Dicillo
Nguyen Khanh (1927–2013) South Vietnamese soldier
Confrontation with Maxwell Taylor in November 1964: On conflict with Maxwell D. Taylor in November 1964
1980s, Interview with Nguyen Khanh (1981)
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 7: Glenora Peak <br class="br">1910s
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915) American mechanical engineer and tennis player
Source: "A Piece-rate System," 1896, p. 90; Cited in: Morgen Witzel, Fifty key figures in management. Routledge, 2004. p. 250.
Alexander H. Stephens (1812–1883) Vice President of the Confederate States (in office from 1861 to 1865)
The Cornerstone Speech (1861)
Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) American army soldier, security guard, terrorist
As quoted in "Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nichols: Oklahoma Bombing" (2010), TruTv.
Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007) Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
1960s, "The Study of Conflict," 1968
“For a guest remembers all his days the hospitable man who showed him kindness.”
XV. 54–55 (tr. G. H. Palmer).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Robert Kuok (1923) Malaysian businessman
Cap 1 "Moulded by Mother"
“And the last words I heard him say were
I shall return for you my love on Christmas Day…”
Dido (1971) English singer-songwriter
Christmas Day
Song lyrics, No Angel (1999)
“Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.”
Stephenie Meyer (1973) American author
Edward Cullen, p. 495
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) Shah of Iran
Page 205
Publications, The Shah's Story (1980), On Islam and the Islamic Revolution
Báb (1819–1850) Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated in the Bahá'í Faith
XVII, 15
The Kitáb-I-Asmá
Wendell Berry (1934) author
The Brian Lehrer Show (17 October 2013) http://www.wnyc.org/story/wendell-berry/
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
"Personal Narrative" (1739), from The Works of President Edwards (1830) Vol. I, edited by Sereno B. Dwight.
“Blooms in its day and may not last forever.”
Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
Marc Maron (1963) Comedian
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/2ufif7/comedy-central-presents-bipolar-coaster
Comedy Central Presents (2007)
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2009, Farewell speech to the nation (January 2009)
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
The President's reasoning for telling reporters in the Oval Office that the current Defense Secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, would be staying on, although Bush had already selected potential replacements. Given at a news conference http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061108-2.html (November 8, 2006) <br class="br">2000s, 2006
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)
“Every day above earth is a good day.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
April, 1950 (From a Postcript Chapter to The Ideal of Human Unity.)
India's Rebirth
Dennis Miller (1953) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor
8 June 2004
Dennis Miller
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the annual assembly of the Congregational Union, London (12 May 1931), published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), pp. 83-84.
1931
Larry the Cable Guy (1963) American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist
Morning Constitutions (2007)
Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 147.
“1415. Every Dog has its Day; and every Man his Hour.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Herman Cain (1945) American writer, businessman and activist
pp. 24-25 http://books.google.com/books?id=hdhWF9bVqXwC&pg=PA24 <br class="br">2010s, This is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House (2011)
Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist
What Life Means to Me (1905), in Revolution and Other Essays (Macmillan, 1909)
Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (1868–1924) American industrial engineer
Source: Measurement of the human factor in industry (1917), p. 3.
Shamini Flint book Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder, Cap 19
Elinor Glyn (1864–1943) British novelist and scriptwriter
Dorothy Parker "Madame Glyn Lectures on 'It', with Illustrations", in The New Yorker, November 26, 1927.
Criticism
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821–1873) American poet
"How oft in schoolboy-days" lines 1–6, Poems, 1860
AJ 13.11.2
Antiquities of the Jews
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 2
“Old Tubal Cain was a man of might
In the days when earth was young.”
Charles Mackay (1814–1889) British writer
"Tubal Cain".
Legends of the Isles and Other Poems (1851)
Muhammad bin Qasim (695–715) Umayyad general
In Debal (Sindh). Futuhu’l-Buldan by Al-Baladhuri. cited in Elliot and Dowson, Vol. I : Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. p. 120-21.
Quotes from The History of India as told by its own Historians
“For in the days we know not of
Did fate begin
Weaving the web of days that wove
Your doom.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Faustine.
Undated
Angela Davis (1944) American political activist, scholar, and author
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Closures and Continuities (2013)
Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
Untitled essay, reprinted in Arthur Lawrence Sir Arthur Sullivan: Life-story, Letters and Reminiscences (London: James Bowden, 1899) p. 225.
Peter Freund (1936–2018) American physicist
Physics and Geometry, a paper written for the Symposium on Theoretical Physics at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland on August 28, 2003 and at the Freydoon Mansouri Memorial Session of the 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, on September 13, 2003. Report #EFI03-47.
Bliss Carman (1861–1929) author
The full toast, as reported in New York Sun. Quoted in John Coldwell Adams, Confederation Voices http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/confederation/John%20Coldwell%20Adams/Confederation%20Voices/chapter%203.html, 2007.
Linda McQuaig (1951) journalist and author
All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism (2001)
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
The Common School Journal, Vol. V, No. 19 (2 October 1843)
James Branch Cabell book The Cream of the Jest
"Richard Fentnor Harroby" in Ch. 1 : Pallation of the Gambit
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
Context: I also begin where he began, and follow wither the dream led him. Meanwhile, I can but entreat you to remember it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.
Edgar Rice Burroughs book Tarzan of the Apes
Source: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 5 : The White Ape
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
XLV, On My First Son, lines 1-12
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams
Thomas Cahill (1940) American scholar and writer
Source: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch. III The Poet: How to Party
Stanley Lombardo (1943) Philosopher, Classicist
Book XX, lines 333–342; Sarpedon to Glaucus.
Translations, Iliad (1997)
Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) cartoonist
Writing as his character, "th' Hon. Ex.-Editur Cale Fluhart." as quoted in The American Humorist : Conscience of the Twentieth Century (1964) by Norris W. Yeats, p. 107.
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
The Huffington Post - Diana: The Legacy (31 Aug 2012) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-allison/diana-the-legacy_b_1844945.html
Donald Rumsfeld (1932) U.S. Secretary of Defense
TownHall Meeting At Aviano Air Base in Italy (7 February 2003) https://web.archive.org/web/20070114160540/http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/t02072003_t0207sdtownhall.html <br class="br">2000s
Arnold Hano (1922) American writer
From his Foreword https://books.google.com/books?id=jF7v30gqs_0C&pg=PA8 to The Early Polo Grounds (2009) by Chris Epting <br class="br">Sports-related
Rahm Emanuel (1959) politician, investment banker, White House Chief of Staff
President Barack Obama, during the 2009 White House Correspondents Dinner. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-592009 <br class="br">About
Keshub Chunder Sen (1838–1884) Indian academic
Speech at St. Jame’s Hall, Picadilly, London, on 19th May 1870.
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech (2013)
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model
On being quoted in 2004 as saying about Nicole Kidman: "She's not a legend. She's a beginner..."
"She's not a legend," Bacall said. "She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. … You have to be older."
Larry King interview (2005)
Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) founder of al-Qaeda
Undated video http://www.defense.gov/news/Dec2001/d20011213ubl.pdf released by the US Department of Defense (13 December 2001). <br class="br">2000s, 2002
Sam Donaldson (1934) American journalist
As quoted in "Respek" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=m1_FAsefZ6o (18 July 2004), Da Ali G Show. <br class="br">2000s
“I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.”
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
As quoted in Edison & Ford Quote Book (2003) edited by Edison & Ford Winter Estates.
Date unknown
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) 18th-century poet and author from Scotland
Act I, scene vi.
The Regicide (1749)
“Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 633
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Fore-knowledge of Death
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XXIII - Death
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
Where Do the Children Play?
Song lyrics, Tea for the Tillerman (1970)
Elaine Paige (1948) English singer and actress
Regarding The Roar Of The Greasepaint - The Smell Of The Crowd
Rock and pop (2006)
Franz Marc (1880–1916) German painter
from the battlefield at Verdun
In a letter to his wife Maria (2 March 1916), from the battlefield at Verdun; as cited in Letters from the war: Franz Marc, new edition by Klaus Lankheit & Uwe Steffen, American University Studies, Vol. 16, p. 113
1915 - 1916
Christina Stead book The Beauties and Furies
The Beauties and Furies (1936)
Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) Polish novelist and painter
“The Birds” http://www.schulzian.net/translation/shops/birds.htm <br class="br">His father, The seasons
Halle Berry (1966) American actress
Penelope Cruz, on working with Berry in Gothika — reported in Los Angeles Daily News staff (November 20, 2003) "American Gothika; Halle Berry overcomes her career fear to take first marquee role in horror film", The Guelph Mercury, p. F12.
About
“In my day everything wasn't so PC.”
Nigel Lythgoe (1949) Executive producer and television director
On his comments on overweight and effeminate dancers
Looseleaf, Victoria (August 2007), "A MAN, A PLAN, A WILDLY SUCCESSFUL TV SHOW". Dance Magazine. 81 (8):46