Quotes about day page 76
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915) American mechanical engineer and tennis player
Source: Principles of Scientific Management, 1911, p. 39.
Tunku Abdul Rahman (1903–1990) Malaysian politician
"Tunku Abdul Rahman last speech" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdoxoum02BA, interview taken on National Day, 1988, Malaysia.
Stephen Tobolowsky (1951) actor and writer
Stephen Tobolowsky in a Facebook post on August 16, 2014 https://www.facebook.com/stephentobolowsky/photos/a.720745797941988.1073741825.113073725375868/922749314408301.
Leon M. Lederman (1922–2018) American mathematician and physicist
Remark by Lederman during 2002 interview. <br class="br"> "Future of the field calls for charisma and courage" Kurt Riesselmann, FermiNews Volume 25, June 28, 2002, Number 11 http://www.fnal.gov/pub/ferminews/ferminews02-06-28/p3.html
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
The Podfather Trilogy, Episode 2 Thanksgiving
On Calendars
Tommy Douglas (1904–1986) Scottish-born Canadian politician
So they put him in jail. But I want to remind you: that you can lock up a mouse or a man but you can't lock up an idea!
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Digital+Archives/Politics/Parties+and+Leaders/Tommy+Douglas/ID/1409090169/?sort=MostPopular
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
The Lady's Yes http://www.webterrace.com/browning/The%20Ladys%20Yes.htm, st. 1 (1844).
“"Cuckoo!"
"Cuckoo!"
While I meditated
on that theme
day dawned.”
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703–1775) Japanese writer
Source: Ikuko Atsumi, Kenneth Rexroth. Women Poets of Japan. 1982. p. 53
Leslie Stephen (1832–1904) British author, literary critic, and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
Sketches from Cambridge http://books.google.com/books?id=mjA4AAAAMAAJ&q=%22If+you+wish+at+once+to+do+nothing+and+to+be+respectable+now-a-days+the+best+pretext+is+to+be+at%22+%22work+on+some+profound+study%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage (1865)
Chittaranjan Das (1870–1925) Indian politician and leader of the Swaraj Party
Speech delivered at Barisal on 14th October 1917. Source: Collected Works of Deshbandhu.
1917
Amir Taheri (1942) Iranian journalist
Opinion: The Syrian Orphan and a Club of Cynics http://english.aawsat.com/2015/09/article55345155/opinion-the-syrian-orphan-and-a-club-of-cynics, Ashraq Al-Awsat (18 Sep, 2015).
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Context: The individual who is self-centered, the individual who is egocentric ends up being very sensitive, a very touchy person. And that is one of the tragic effects of a self-centered attitude, that it leads to a very sensitive and touchy response toward the universe. These are the people you have to handle with kid gloves because they are touchy, they are sensitive. And they are sensitive because they are self-centered. They are too absorbed in self and anything gets them off, anything makes them angry. Anything makes them feel that people are looking over them because of a tragic self-centeredness. That even leads to the point that the individual is not capable of facing trouble and the hard moments of life. One can become so self-centered, so egocentric that when the hard and difficult moments of life come, he cannot face them because he’s too centered in himself.
Context: The individual who is self-centered, the individual who is egocentric ends up being very sensitive, a very touchy person. And that is one of the tragic effects of a self-centered attitude, that it leads to a very sensitive and touchy response toward the universe. These are the people you have to handle with kid gloves because they are touchy, they are sensitive. And they are sensitive because they are self-centered. They are too absorbed in self and anything gets them off, anything makes them angry. Anything makes them feel that people are looking over them because of a tragic self-centeredness. That even leads to the point that the individual is not capable of facing trouble and the hard moments of life. One can become so self-centered, so egocentric that when the hard and difficult moments of life come, he cannot face them because he’s too centered in himself. These are the people who cannot face disappointments. These are the people who cannot face being defeated. These are the people who cannot face being criticized. These are the people who cannot face these many experiences of life which inevitably come because they are too centered in themselves. In time, somebody criticizes them, time somebody says something about them that they don’t like too well, time they are disappointed, time they are defeated, even in a little game, they end up broken-hearted. They can’t stand up under it because they are centered in self.
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 590.
Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
Source: Roots : The Saga of an American Family (1976), Ch. 1, first lines.
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Ellen's interview on Oprah show, 9th of November 2009
Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909)
The Novel: What It Is (1893)
“If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 63
Vernon L. Smith (1927) American economist
Vernon L. Smith (2002) in: " Vernon L. Smith - Biographical http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2002/smith-bio.html". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 13 Jun 2014.
Xavier Leroy (1968) French computer scientistand programmer
Sources <br class="br">Source: Xavier Leroy (2005-07-23), Post to the Caml mailing list, 2008-02-20 http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2005/07/0d3297c63e4b92fd956ea53d7b9ff255.en.html,
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)
Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011) English-American novelist and essayist
"I Am a Cabaret" (1972), p. 203
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
"Chief, in Ch. 29
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)
African Spir (1837–1890) Russian philosopher
or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 46.
Robert A. Heinlein book Beyond This Horizon
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 6, “We don’t speak the same lingo”, pp. 73-74
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Memorial Day Address (31 May 1915)
1910s
“Holy Joe: And on the day of judgment everything will be replayed, even your thoughts”
Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) Christian comics writer
Chick tracts, " Holy Joe http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0002/0002_01.asp" (2002)
Malcolm McDowell (1943) English actor
As quoted in A Documentary on the Making of Gore Vidal's Caligula [documentary] (1981), Cinemedia West Corporation
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor
quote, 1917
Quote in: Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, – a source-book of Artist's writings, ed. Kristine Stiles / Peter Selz, University of California Press, London, England, 1996, p. 817
Duchamp's core quote / his own written comment on his artwork 'Fountain (Duchamp)': The Richard Mutt Case, Marcel Duchamp, ‘Blind Man’, New York, 1917: 5
1915 - 1925
Mark Wahlberg (1971) American actor, television producer and rap musician
Chris Heath, The making of Mark, The Observer, Sunday 27 February 2000 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/feb/27/1
Beyoncé (1981) American singer, songwriter and actress
Foreword https://books.google.it/books?id=KfeoBAAAQBAJ&pg=PP10 to Marco Borges's The 22-Day Revolution, New York: Penguin, 2015
“A day lost at the beginning of project hurts just as much as a day lost at the end.”
Tom DeMarco (1940) American software engineer, author, and consultant
The Deadline (1997).
Roger Scruton (1944–2020) English philosopher
Rivers of Blood http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Rivers_of_Blood BBC2 documentary (8 March 2008)
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
on the Day of Judgement
Jami’ul Akhbar, Page 78
Shi'ite Hadith
Jean-Claude Juncker (1954) Luxembourgian politician
To reporters at a European Union conference http://reuters.com/article/idUSKBN15L21P (6 February 2017) <br class="br">2017
Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator
Mentioning comments by journalist Howard Kurtz about his reporting of Coulter calling editors at National Review Online "girly-boys".
2002, Ann Coulter : Left Is 'out to Destroy the Country' (2002)
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer
Prayer of three revolutionaries, Book X, line 391
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883) British economic historian
Source: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884), p. 31
Thomas Noel (poet) (1799–1861) English poet
An old Man’s Idyll, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Mata Amritanandamayi (1953) Hindu spiritual leader and guru
From Amritanandamayi's Address at the United Nations Academic Impact Conference on Technology for Sustainable Development (2015)
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim [citation needed]
Sunni Hadith
Roger Scruton (1944–2020) English philosopher
"Hayek and conservatism", in Edward Feser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hayek (2006)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1867/aug/02/motion-for-an-address in the House of Commons (2 August 1867) on the Orissa famine of 1866 <br class="br">1860s
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer
Source: Women and Economics (1898), Ch. 8.
Joy Villa (1986) Singer, songwriter, and actress
EXCLUSIVE – Singer Joy Villa: I Wore Trump Dress at Grammys to Counter Hollywood’s ‘Suppressive Atmosphere’ http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/02/14/joy-villa-wore-pro-trump-dress-grammys-fight-hollywoods-suppressive-atmosphere/ (February 14, 2017)
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Chance http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/chance-29/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“So nice to be a fashion icon in my day.”
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
On a Saturday Night Live skit featuring her in a pantsuit. Rhode Island, February 2008.
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)
Carole King (1942) Nasa
Time Don't Run Out on Me (1985), co-written with Gerry Goffin, performed by Anne Murray
Song lyrics, Singles
Patrik Baboumian (1979) German strength-athlete
Message attached to his YouTube video “555kg yoke-carry for 10m in the middle of Berlin” (1 September 2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vUQISAuFiI.
“Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.”
Sarah Orne Jewett book The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 16
Bill Engvall (1957) American comedian and actor
And all I could say was "Yeah, I did!"
Here's Your Sign Live! (2004)
Charles Fort (1874–1932) American writer
Speaking of a dog's homing skills, in Ch. 27
Wild Talents (1932)
Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Otros todos son ajenos, que la necedad siempre va por demasías, y aquí infeliz: no tienen día, ni aun hora suya, con tal exceso de ajenos, que alguno fue llamado “el de todos”.
Aun en el entendimiento, que para todos saben y para sí ignoran.
Maxim 252
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
Henry Liddon (1829–1890) British theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 138.
Thomas Hughes (1822–1896) English lawyer, author and cricketer
Part VIII
The Manliness of Christ (1879)
Alberto Gonzales (1955) 80th United States Attorney General
Speech to U.S. Attorneys’ National Security Conference (January 11, 2007)
Arnold Hano (1922) American writer
From Running Wild, pp. 14-15
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Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) United States federal judge
Reported in Alpheus Thomas Mason, Harlan Fiske Stone, Pillar of the Law (1956), p. 209
Attributed
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
October 2, 1934
India's Rebirth
Ridley Pearson (1953) American writer
Interview with Ridley Pearson http://blog.booksamillion.com/author-spotlight/author-interviews/2016/08/interview-ridley-pearson/ (August 22, 2016)
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, Law and Order (1920)
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
Migration: Multiculturalism and its Metaphors (2016)
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the thirtieth anniversary of the Junior Imperial League in Kingsway Hall (19 June 1926), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), pp. 18-19.
1926
Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer
Source: Intellectual Memoirs: New York 1936–1938 (1992), Ch. 2
Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School
Blood and Guts in High School (1978)
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) British politician
Speech in the House of Commons (25 June 1850).
1850s
Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916) Founder of the Bible Student Movement
Source: Milennial Dawn, Vol. III: Thy Kingdom Come (1891), p. 186.
Charlotte Elliott (1789–1871) English poet, hymn writer, editor
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 615.
“The scene was more beautiful far to the eye
Than if day in its pride had arrayed it.”
Paul Moon James (1780–1854) British poet and banker
The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).