M. Balamuralikrishna (1930–2016) Carnatic vocalist, instrumentalist and playback singer
Prince Rama Varma in: "Murali And Me: A tribute by Prince Rama Varma".
M. Balamuralikrishna (1930–2016) Carnatic vocalist, instrumentalist and playback singer
Prince Rama Varma in: "Murali And Me: A tribute by Prince Rama Varma".
Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint
Sir George Grierson noted this when Kabir and Dadu were Tulsidas’s contemporaries when the population of northern India at the time was about ninety million quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", P.37
Syed Ahmed Khan (1820–1898) Indian educator and politician
... “Our nation is of the blood of those who made not only Arabia, but Asia and Europe, to tremble. It is our nation which conquered with its sword the whole of India, although its peoples were all of one religion.” <br class="br">Quoted from After a Century it is time to revisit Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s legacy https://www.myind.net/Home/viewArticle/after-a-century-it-is-time-to-revisit-sir-syed-ahmad-khans-legacy Avatans Kumar Jan 27, 2018. Also quoted in The Great Speeches of Modern India by Rudranghsu Mukherjee
Aravind Adiga book The White Tiger
The Fifth Night.
The White Tiger (2008)
“If Rio Ferdinand is worth £120,000 a week, Cannavaro is worth a hundred million a day.”
Fabio Cannavaro (1973) Italian footballer
Eamon Dunphy, on Fabio Cannavaro's performance during Germany 2006 http://www.elevenaside.com/quoteoftheday/
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
William March (1893–1954) United States Marine, novelist, short story writer
In a Graham Greene review of the novel Company K for the newspaper The Spectator.
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
This presupposes that Finnegan is identical with Fion McCool as well as with the more derivative Fingal, and also with Cu Chulainn. Well, Finnegan is capable of being all. To those interested in this line I recommend Thurneysen’s Die Irische Helden- und Konigsage.
Interglossia
The Devil is Dead (1971)
Vandana Shiva (1952) Indian philosopher
Keith Kloor, science journalist, as quoted in " The GMO-Suicide Myth http://issues.org/30-2/keith/", Issues in Science and Technology (Winter 2014)
Pat Robertson (1930) American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister
Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Source: The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (2006), p. 81
“I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.”
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
George Bernard Shaw on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize (1930)
“I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now?”
Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer
To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!
The Heretic (1968)
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
William Dean Howells, Criticism and Fiction (1891), Chapter 15
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Address to Cornell College (1962)
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
As quoted in Words of Our Hero, Ulysses S. Grant https://books.google.com/books?id=wqJBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=%22the+one+thing+i+never+wanted+to+see+again+was+a+military+parade%22&source=bl&ots=zH525oYpJn&sig=ACfU3U0GLPNgij-FmXIDwgWp_Kg8zDskWg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4uc7PzKniAhUq1lkKHWhlBfQQ6AEwBXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22the%20one%20thing%20i%20never%20wanted%20to%20see%20again%20was%20a%20military%20parade%22&f=false, by Jeremiah Chaplin, p. 58 <br class="br">1880s, Speech at Warren, Ohio (1880)
James P. Gray (1945) American judge
Source: Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs, 2011, p. 10
W. D. Hamilton (1936–2000) British evolutionary biologist (1936-2000)
"The Hospitals Are Coming", in Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 2: Evolution of Sex (2002)
“You kill, with a single gas canister, an average of five hundred criminals per day!”
Luiz Carlos Alborghetti (1945–2009) Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure
Original: (pt) Você mata, com um botijão de gás, uma média de 500 bandidos por dia!
Original: (pt) Source: [9 December 2009, Morre Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, dono do bordão 'bandido bom é bandido morto', https://extra.globo.com/tv-e-lazer/morre-luiz-carlos-alborghetti-dono-do-bordao-bandido-bom-bandido-morto-209786.html, Portuguese, Extra, Editora Globo S/A, 31 March 2019]
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
he wouldn't have been able to tell him the ways the telephone would affect the world. He didn't know that people would use the telephone to call up and find out what movies were playing that night or to order some groceries or call a relative on the other side of the globe. But remember that first the public telegraph was inaugurated, in 1844. It was an amazing breakthrough in communications. You could actually send messages from New York to San Francisco in an afternoon. People talked about putting a telegraph on every desk in America to improve productivity. But it wouldn't have worked. It required that people learn this whole sequence of strange incantations, Morse code, dots and dashes, to use the telegraph. It took about 40 hours to learn. The majority of people would never learn how to use it. So, fortunately, in the 1870s, Bell filed the patents for the telephone. It performed basically the same function as the telegraph, but people already knew how to use it. Also, the neatest thing about it was that besides allowing you to communicate with just words, it allowed you to sing. … It allowed you to intone your words with meaning beyond the simple linguistics. And we're in the same situation today. Some people are saying that we ought to put an IBM PC on every desk in America to improve productivity. It won't work. The special incantations you have to learn this time are "slash q-zs" and things like that. The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel—one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about. It's the first "telephone" of our industry. And, besides that, the neatest thing about it, to me, is that the Macintosh lets you sing the way the telephone did. You don't simply communicate words, you have special print styles and the ability to draw and add pictures to express yourself.
1980s, Playboy interview (1985)
James D. Watson (1928) American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.
1990s
Source: Foreword for Discovering the Brain (1992) by Sandra Ackerman, p. iii; often paraphrased: "The brain is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe."
Johannes Kepler book Mysterium Cosmographicum
Book V, Introduction
Variant translation: It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
As quoted in The Martyrs of Science; or, the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler (1841) by David Brewster, p. 197. This has sometimes been misquoted as "It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer."
Variant translation: I feel carried away and possessed by an unutterable rapture over the divine spectacle of heavenly harmony... I write a book for the present time, or for posterity. It is all the same to me. It may wait a hundred years for its readers, as God has also waited six thousand years for an onlooker.
As quoted in Calculus. Multivariable (2006) by Steven G. Krantz and Brian E. Blank. p. 126
Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596), Harmonices Mundi (1618)
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
They're going to put y'all back in chains.
Campaign speech in Danville, Virginia, criticizing Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and the Republican speech, quoted in * 2012-08-14
VP Biden Says Republicans Are 'Going to Put Y'all Back in Chains'
Jake Tapper
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/vp-biden-says-republicans-are-going-to-put-yall-back-in-chains/
2012
Neil Gaiman book The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013), Chapter 6 (p. 74)
Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist
But is it "hostile," really, to take a look at the ferocity of the emotion they call "hostility"?
Paris Review Interview (1986)
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Napoleon the Little (1852), Book VIII, IV
Napoleon the Little (1852)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
As quoted in Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Supply Chain Distributors on COVID-19 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-supply-chain-distributors-covid-19/ (March 29, 2020), whitehouse.gov. <br class="br">2020s, 2020, March
Michael Lai (1942) Taiwanese virologist (born 1942)
Michael Lai (2017) cited in " Persistence pays for Taiwan virologist who helped stop SARS https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Persistence-pays-for-Taiwan-virologist-who-helped-stop-SARS2" on Nikkei Asian Review, 1 May 2017.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2020s, 2020, February, Donald Trump Charleston, South Carolina Rally (February 28, 2020)
Ken Ham (1951) Australian young Earth creationist
Only descendants of Adam can be saved. God’s Son remains the “Godman” as our Savior. In fact, the Bible makes it clear that we see the Father through the Son (and we see the Son through His Word). To suggest that aliens could respond to the gospel is just totally wrong. An understanding of the gospel makes it clear that salvation through Christ is only for the Adamic race—human beings who are all descendants of Adam.<br><br> "We'll find a new Earth within 20 years" http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2014/07/20/well-find-a-new-earth-within-20-years/, Around the World with Ken Ham (July 20, 2014) <br class="br">2010s, Around the World with Ken Ham
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993) Aboriginal Australian poet, artist, teacher and campaigner for Indigenous rights
On the Aboriginal people in “‘Recording the Cries of the People’: AN INTERVIEW WITH OODGEROO (KATH WALKER)” http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1725&context=kunapipi in Kunapipi (1988)
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Quotes 1990s, 1995–1999, Sovereignty and World Order, 1999
Jeff McMahan (philosopher) (1954) American philosopher
" Predators: A Response https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/predators-a-response/", The New York Times, 28 Sept. 2010
Arun Shourie (1941) Indian journalist and politician
Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) painter from the Northern Netherlands
translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
(original Dutch: citaat van Hendrik Willem Mesdag, in het Nederlands:) Aan de kust zie je de mooiste zee. Daar heb ik ook mijn panorama gemaakt. Dat beschouw ik als mijn belangrijkste werk; omdat 't zoo'n groote impressie geeft van de natuur. Maar'k zou 't niet graag nog's weer beginnen; daar zestien honderd meter doek te schilderen..
Quote of Mesdag (after 1881), cited by Godfried Bomans?, in magazine De Volkskrant, 23 July, 1966
after 1880
William Bartram (1739–1823) American naturalist
[Van Doren, Mark, The travels of William Bartram, An American Bookshelf, volume 3, 118–119, 1928, New York, Macy-Masius, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b281934&view=1up&seq=124]
Travels of William Bartram (1791)
“Why that’s a hundred miles away. That’s a long way to go just to eat.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
On declining invitation to White House dinner honoring Nobel laureates, as quoted in Life magazine (20 January 1962)
Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1644–1720) Persian writer,poet
Bedil: Selected Poems, p. 59
Rubaʿiyat (Quatrains), Stanza
Shelley Lubben (1968–2019) author, singer, motivational speaker, and former pornographic actress
Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth (2010), Dedication
Rand Paul (1963) American politician, ophthalmologist, and United States Senator from Kentucky
He showed up at the ballfield that day, and as he started shooting at us he yelled "This is for healthcare!", and then when they were finally able to kill him in his pocket was a list of five or six conservative republicans that he came there intending to kill. So instead of saying "get up in their face", we should say let's have constructive dialog. Let's forcefully present our position in a verbal way and in an intellectual way. <br class="br">2018-10-10 <br class="br">Rand Paul: There Will Be an 'Assassination' If Left Doesn't Ratchet Down the Rhetoric <br class="br">Discussion on Fox and Friends <br class="br">http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/10/10/rand-paul-there-will-be-assassination-if-left-doesnt-ratchet-down-rhetoric https://video.foxnews.com/v/5847225479001/?#sp=show-clips
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917–2008) Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in CNN Larry King Weekend:Interview With Maharishi Mahesh Yogi http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/12/lklw.00.html, (2002)
Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998) American activist
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, 1967, p. 4, co-authored with Charles V. Hamilton
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
Swallowing the bottle cap, Sarkos swerved toward Martin. “Don’t you see? It’s the only solution that can possibly work. No other theory comes close. Of course God has a dark side. Not just dark—evil. Radically, radically evil.”
Source: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 15 (p. 390; spoken by the Devil, named Jonathan Sarkos in the book)
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
Source: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 15 (p. 383)
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1909–1999) Austrian noble and political theorist
Pg 16
The Menace of the Herd (1943)
Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) America born English businessman
The Romance of Commerce (1918), A Representative Business of the Twentieth Century
Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) America born English businessman
The Romance of Commerce (1918), A Representative Business of the Twentieth Century
Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) America born English businessman
The Romance of Commerce (1918), A Representative Business of the Twentieth Century
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
The Daily Chronicle on the 7 March 1917 https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/george-bernard-shaw-joyriding-on-the-front. <br class="br">1910s, The Technique of War (1917)
Kristen Marhaver American marine biologist
Source: Why I still have hope for coral reefs https://www.ted.com/talks/kristen_marhaver_why_i_still_have_hope_for_coral_reefs (April 2017)
Greg McKeown (author) book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Journal Articles
“Even if you live to one hundred, you’ll still be dead forever.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941) Soviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union
Quoted in №34. "Очерк Петра Александровича Лидова "Таня" http://zoyakosmodemyanskaya.ru/books5-34.htm
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
Opening statement.
1870s, The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
“Human beings accumulate about one hundred mutations per generation.”
Matt Ridley book Genome
Introduction (p. 10)
Genome (1999)
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Source: 27 February 1942, quoted in Hitler's Table Talk, 1941–1944
Al-Tabari (839–923) influential Persian scholar, historian and exegete of the Qur'an
Source: Al-Tabari, Vol. 8, p. 138
Charles Stross Saturn's Children
Source: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 17, “Interview with the Domina” (p. 304)
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter I, Secrets Behind History
Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989) Religious leader, politician
Source: Excerpted from "Islam Is Not a Religion of Pacifists" (1942), English translation in Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 29, 32-36.
Jason Hickel (1982) author
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2021)
Source: Rise of the Juggernaut, pp. 111-112
Jason Hickel (1982) author
Capitalism: A Creation Story, p. 39
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2021)
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 28, “I Am Margaret/On Tercis” (p. 238)
Ro Khanna (1976) U.S. Representative from California
Source: Twitter post https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1078370178595991552 (27 December 2018)
Harry Gregson-Williams (1961) British composer
Source: Composer Harry Gregson-Williams discusses Disney’s Mulan https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2020/09/exclusive-interview-composer-harry-gregson-williams-discusses-disneys-mulan/ (September 12, 2020)
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) poet
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 97
Tippu Tip (1837–1905) Swahili slave trader
Source: Five Years with the Congo Cannibals, Page 175 https://archive.org/details/fiveyearswithco00wardgoog/page/n188/mode/2up
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1235) Indian Sufi
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 263
Brig. Gen. Eran Ortal (1971)
Source: Dado Center Journal vol. 6, January 2016, https://www.idf.il/media/11156/ortal.pdf
Mike Lindell (1961) American businessman
Source: 12 January 2022 https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1481292597511475203
John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down
Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 68
Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988) American physicist
Source: The Cosmic Code (1982), p. 271-272
Gilbert Murray (1866–1957) Anglo-Australian scholar
1920s, The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future (1929)
Source: "Peace and Strife as Elements in Life: The Ideal of “Unhindered Activity”", pp. 37-38
Vernon Coleman (1946) British doctor
"Twenty One Reasons For Being A Vegetarian" (2007), in vernoncoleman.com http://www.vernoncoleman.com/twentyoner.htm.
“The most talented man, as he has been told many times, does a hundred foolish things in his life.”
Daniel Salamanca (1863–1935) President of Bolivia (1863-1935)
Sania Nehwal (1990) Indian badminton player
"Saina Nehwal Interview: Sportskeeda Exclusive" https://www.sportskeeda.com/badminton/saina-nehwal-interview-sportskeeda-exclusive (19 April 2012)
Simon Peter Poh Hoon Seng (1963) Malaysian prelate
Auxiliary bishop ordained for Kuching archdiocese https://catholicnews.sg/2015/10/12/auxiliary-bishop-ordained-for-kuching-archdiocese/ (12 October 2015)