“As any poet knows, a system is a way of looking at the world.”
Gerald M. Weinberg (1933–2018) American computer scientist
Source: Introduction to General Systems Thinking, 1975, p. 52
“As any poet knows, a system is a way of looking at the world.”
Gerald M. Weinberg (1933–2018) American computer scientist
Source: Introduction to General Systems Thinking, 1975, p. 52
Jopie Huisman (1922–2000) Dutch painter
translation, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018
version in original Dutch / citaat van Jopie Huisman, in het Nederlands: Wat de vergankelijkheid betreft.. .Je ziet het hele verhaal in die schoenen, daarom schilder ik ze zo scherp. De lichamelijke houding; kromme poten, een knobbel. Die schoenen praatten tegen me, en dan dacht ik: ik kan zien dat je zo en zo groot was, maar had je ook een vrouw? Kinderen? Wat deed je? En waar het me in wezen dan om ging is mijn plekkie daartussen. Tussen die verhalen, dat mysterie. Die pikzwarte achtergrond [in zijn schilderijen, tot c. 1979-80]; ik had het gevonden. Een schreeuw om aandacht. Die broek, dat hemd, die achtergrond, dat was: hier ben ik. Maar dan word je een maniërist. Dus ik ben realistisch doorgegaan, maar koste wat het kost die zwarte achtergrond vermijdend. Het is zoals nl:Rutger Kopland zegt: Wie het gevonden heeft, heeft niet goed gezocht. Nu wil ik de mensen zo schilderen, als zijn ze van gekleurde modder. De kleur die vergeestelijkt.
Mens & Gevoelens: Jopie Huisman', 1993
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
"Ethan Brand" (1850)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(28th December 1822) Fragments in Rhyme X: The Eve of St. John
28th December 1822) Fragments in Rhyme XI: The Emerald Ring — a Superstition see The Improvisatrice (1824
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
“Honey, beside me, you look like Tony Randall!”
Jayne Mansfield (1933–1967) American actress, singer, model
Remark to one of the Gabor sisters
Here They Are Jayne Mansfield (1992)
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 191.
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Statement to a group of four congress freshmen (2 July 1947), as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44
“I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.”
Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director
Quoted in Maureen Dowd, "Testing Himself," The New York Times (1986-09-28), section 6, page 16, column 1
Ken Thompson (1943) American computer scientist, creator of the Unix operating system
Ken Thompson; cited in [Seibel, Peter, Coders At Work, 2009, 479]
"Coders At Work", 2009
Vicky Jenson (1960) American animator
Quoted by Michael Mallory in " Firsts Among Equals http://www.animationmagazine.net/top-stories/firsts-among-equals/", Animation Magazine (March 6th, 2014).
Michael Ignatieff (1947) professor at Harvard Kennedy School and former Canadian politician
New York Times magazine op-ed piece, May 2, 2004
Neal Stephenson book Seveneves
"Five Thousand Years Later"; referring to the Diggers
Seveneves (2015), Part Three
The Honeymoon (1805), Act iii. Sc. 4.
Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Ring of Honor, Death Before Dishonor III. June 18th, 2005.<br>This promo took place directly after Punk defeated Austin Aries for the ROH World Championship proceeding to turn the, at the time face, Punk heel. Directly after this promo Christopher Daniels made his first appearance in ROH in over a year to challenge for the belt. This promo also made reference to an old parable http://www.snopes.com/critters/malice/scorpion.htm about an animal doing an act of kindness to another creature that is venomous and being surprised when the animal injects the venom to the creature after the act of kindness who then proceeds to explain it is their nature to perform the act. <br class="br">Ring of Honor
“Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Porque saben el nombre de lo que busco ¡creen que saben lo que busco!
Voces (1943)
Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
Green Party presidential candidacy speech (2000)
Miley Cyrus (1992) American actor and singer-songwriter
See You Again, her first hit song
Song lyrics
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
By Still Waters (1906)
Siân Berry (1974) British politician
calling on her voters to give Ken Livingstone their second preference in the 2008 London Mayoral election http://london.greenparty.org.uk/news/657
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gods-and-generals-2003 of Gods and Generals (21 February 2003) <br class="br">Reviews, One-and-a-half star reviews
“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 329.
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader
The Reappearance of the Second Coming and the Completed Testament Era 1993-01-10 Belvedere International Training Center http://www.unification.net/pr-mes/pr-mes-2.html
Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist
Wanderlust interview (2009)
“ Mike White's 'Veggie Testimonial' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF8PJJFgg4E”, ad for PETA (30 July 2009).
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, October, Second presidential debate (October 9, 2016)
“Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.”
Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864) English writer
Source: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853), Ch. 21
“I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.”
Dennis Miller (1953) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor
The Rants
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
Father and Son
Song lyrics, Tea for the Tillerman (1970)
Jackson C. Frank (1943–1999) American musician
Don't Look Back
“Some folks can look so busy doin' nothin' that they seem indispensable.”
Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) cartoonist
As quoted in Saturday Review (18 March 1944), p. 19
Variant: Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
“Come on, Amelia. We are not really British. We do not have to look down our noses at honest labor.”
John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer
Source: Fugitives of Chaos (2006), Chapter 18, “Festive Days on the Slopes of Vesuvius” (p. 285)
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) English writer and social critic and a Journalist
All the year round, Vol.15 (1876), p. 281
Rab Butler (1902–1982) British politician
Speech on Indian Constitutional Reform http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1933/mar/29/indian-constitutional-reform (29 March 1933).
Günter Schabowski (1929–2015) German politician
Ostalgie ist nicht mein Ding. Manchem erscheint die DDR in rückblickender Verklärung als ein Hort sozialer Sicherheit. Tatsächlich ist die DDR nicht zuletzt daran zugrunde gegangen, dass sie infolge wirtschaftlicher Ineffizienz ihre sozialen Verheißungen nicht finanzieren konnte.
from: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 6 November 2004.
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) French painter
Quote of Pissarro, Paris, 6 September 1888, in a letter to his son Lucien; from Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, pp. 131-132
1880's
Arnold Hano (1922) American writer
From "Willie McCovey: Now No. 1 Willie," in Baseball Stars of 1970 (March 1970), edited by Ray Robinson, p. 19
Sports-related
Michael Balcon (1896–1977) English Film producer
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Michael Balcon p. 28
Tom Holt book Paint Your Dragon
c. 4
Paint Your Dragon (1996)
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Speech at Eyre Square, Galway, Ireland (29 June 1963)
1963
Tom Hodgkinson (1968) British writer
“Idleness and Industry,” The Idler.
W. V. D. Hodge (1903–1975) British mathematician
W. V. D. Hodge, Changing Views of Geometry. Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association, 14th April, 1955, The Mathematical Gazette 39 (329) (1955), 177-183.
Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 27 (p. 243)
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Page 78.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian
Interview with John C. Tibbetts http://www.murphywong.net/barzuncentennial/JohnCTibbetts.htm (1986-12-04)
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) Russian painter
as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 109
undated quotes
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008)
Phillip Guston (1913–1980) American artist
Source: 1950 - 1960, Interview with David Sylvester, BBC (March 1960), p. 97
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) Brazilian architect
Quoted in "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves", Tom Dyckhoff, The Times Online (London, 2007-12-12).
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)
Marie Bilders-van Bosse (1837–1900) painter from the Netherlands
translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
version in original Dutch (citaat van Maria Bilders-van Bosse, in Nederlands): 's Middags nam hij [ nl:Johannes Bosboom ] me mee, om ernaar te gaan kijken [haar eerst-getoonde schilderij]. Daar hing het! Ik dacht dat ik zwom! En den volgenden dag, de salon was bij ons [thuis bij haar vader] vol menschen, komt een vriend van papa binnen en zegt: 'Ik heb je schilderij gezien. Heel goed. Weet je dat het verkocht is?' Het was ineens stil in de kamer. Pappa keek me met een paar verbaasde ogen aan. Het was mijn onafhankelijkheidsverklaring.
Quote of Marie Bilders-van Bosse, c. Jan. 1875; as cited by Dutch writer Augusta de Wit, in 'Marie Philippine Bilders-van Bosse', in artmagazine 'De Gids', 1900, p. 513
Bosboom had organized that one of her early paintings was showed in the shop-window of art-dealer Goupil in The Hague; it became her first sale, to Dr. Blom Coster
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) American artist
till 1957-58
quote about several contemporary artists
1960s, Interview with Barbara Rose', Archives - American Art, 1968
Lucy Lawless (1968) New Zealand actress
Benjamin Morrison (January 14, 1997) "Visiting Warriors - Xena and Hercules Flex Their Muscles at NATPE", The Times-Picayune, p. F1.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Foreword to booklet on interracial relations prepared by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, as quoted in The New York Times (22 June 1964)
Kenneth Clark (1903–1983) Art historian, broadcaster and museum director
Source: Civilisation (1969), Ch. 1: The Skin of Our Teeth
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) sculptor from France
Quote of Dubuffet, in Peter Selz and Jean Dubuffet: The work of Jean Dubuffet, The Museum of Modern art, New York, 1962
1960-70's
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 118
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
No.14. The Bride of Lammermuir — LUCY ASHTON.
Literary Remains
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Love’s Last Lesson
The Golden Violet (1827)
“I’d like it if people thought I was Jewish-looking.”
Natalie Portman (1981) Israeli-American actress
Interview, Jewish Chronicle, 6 July 2007 http://thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=44797&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=Natalie%20Portman&srchtxt=1&srchhead=1&srchauthor=1&srchsandp=1&scsrch=0
Albert Finney (1936–2019) English actor
Interview with Paul Fischer at Dark Horizons (2 December 2003).
Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer
"America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub", p. 17
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Idols of Crowds http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2008/09/16/idols_of_crowds/page/full, Sep 16, 2008. <br class="br">2000s
Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
I'm just sayin'.
The Glenn Beck Program
Premiere Radio Networks
2011-03-14
Ben
Dimiero
Beck: "I'm Not Not Saying" God Is Causing Earthquakes
Media Matters for America
2011-03-14
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201103140010
2011-03-19
2010s, 2011
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Canto I, stanza 17. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician
"A University's Bequest to Youth" Speech in Toronto (10 October 1936)
Canadian Occasions (1940)
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) Philosopher
"A hundred years of thinking about God" (1998)
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Mesquin: paltry, unimaginative, prosaic
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979) British comedian, singer, actress
Stately as a Galleon (1978), "English Lit." (of new clothes)
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
1 August 1942.
Disputed, Hitler's Table Talks (1941-1944) (published 1953)
Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
On why he decided against writing proprietary software; quoted in Free as in Freedom : Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software' (2002) by Sam Williams http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/index.html <br class="br">2000s
S. S. Rajamouli (1973) Indian film director
SS Rajamouli may work with Sridevi and Mohanlal in a new fantasy drama http://www.hindustantimes.com/regional-movies/ss-rajamouli-may-work-with-sridevi-and-mohanlal-in-a-new-fantasy-drama/story-bkM24KT8th5xukRWuPH7YP.html (19 July 2017), Hindustan Times. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
Herb Goldberg (1937–2019) American psychologist
The Liberation Crunch: Getting the Worst of Both Worlds, pp. 146–147
The New Male (1979)
Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) founder of al-Qaeda
Al - Jazeera Broadcast Tape - On 9/11 and the American reaction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dls5JTD-uG0 (The date of this tape is not provided, though it seems to be 2002 or 2003, but could be as early as October 2001.) <br class="br">2000s
George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
St. 4. <br class="br"> Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
Sarah Brightman (1960) British soprano, musical theatre actress, and dancer
The Trees They Grow So High, (1988)
Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
Interview with Jay Harris http://www.thebragmag.com/features/michael-moore-talks-to-the-bra.php, in The Brag (August 2007) <br class="br">2007