Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) American politician, 29th president of the United States (in office from 1921 to 1923)
1920s, Nationalism and Americanism (1920)
Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) American politician, 29th president of the United States (in office from 1921 to 1923)
1920s, Nationalism and Americanism (1920)
Dave Sim (1956) Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebus/message/100634
“Now, after you back it up? Then stop.”
Lil Wayne (1982) American rapper, singer, record executive and businessman
"Back That Azz Up" (
100000s
1990s
Paul Wolfowitz (1943) American politician, diplomat, and technocrat
Dep't of Defense News Briefing (September 13, 2001).
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Can a Doctor Be a Humanist? (1984).
Sheikh Hasina (1947) Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Sheikh giving tough warning in her introductory speech at the second Secretary Committee meeting against corruption. http://www.thedailystar.net/country/prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-warns-government-officials-against-corruption-1427209
Steve Broy (1958) American musician
Mentors Heathen Scum Rock Kourt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWg1EuUPmrk by Dr. Heathen Scum at Dr. Heathen Scum's channel http://www.youtube.com/user/sbroy at YouTube
John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer
November 26
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)
Harold Lloyd (1893–1971) American film actor and producer
"What is Love? Twelve Men of the Screen Give Their Ideas". Photoplay, February 1925, p. 36. (Photoplay Publishing Company). https://archive.org/stream/pho28chic#page/n163/mode/2up
“If we assume we've arrived: we stop searching, we stop developing.”
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943) British scientist
Beautiful Minds (2010)
Ron White (1956) American comedian
I hate him. He smokes pot. He burned a hole in my other jacket.
They Call Me Tater Salad
Thomas Pynchon book V.
Source: V. (1963), Chapter Two, Part I
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
As recalled by his biographer Abraham Pais in Reviews of Modern Physics, 51, 863 (1979): 907. Cited in Boojums All The Way Through by N. David Mermin (1990), p. 81 http://books.google.com/books?id=bf5bjBk095UC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA81#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications
Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economics laureate
1975 interview https://mises.org/library/hayek-meets-press-1975 on "Meet the Press." <br class="br">1960s–1970s
Lisa Mason book Summer of Love
Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 10 “Dedicated to the One I Love” (p. 230)
Smedley D. Butler (1881–1940) United States Marine Corps General, 2 time Medal of Honor recipient and activist
War is a racket (1935)
War is a racket (1935)
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
“Hears the music under the rock
One of these days he'll stop
Don't stop when the music stops.”
Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"Such a Quiet Man (original song!)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HA6bri22Tk, the first original song she posted to YouTube, about which she wrote: "I got bored so I wrote this song tonight. The music, instruments, the lyrics, backup vocals, everything was me. And yes it is TOTALLY WEIRD!!!!!!" (13 May 2007)
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Address to the Oxford University Law Society (14 June 1957), quoted in The Times (15 June 1957), p. 4.
1950s
Natacha Rambova (1897–1966) American film personality and fashion designer
On visiting Egypt, p. 207
Madam Valentino: The Many Lives of Natacha Rambova (1991)
“"Trying to stop Robinho is a physical fatigue. Trying to stop Romário is an emotional fatigue."”
Romário (1966) Brazilian association football player
Marcar o Robinho é desgaste físico. Marcar o Romário é desgaste emocional
About
Source: ISTO É Magazine, Edition. 1788.
Context: Santos FC player Narciso.
Robert Cormier book The Rag and Bone Shop
Source: The Rag and Bone Shop (2000), p. 23
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
“Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #54
Athenäum (1798 - 1800)
David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2010s, 2015, Speech on (20 July 2015)
“I like the idea of stopping mid-sentence, like Graham Greene.”
Dermot Healy (1947–2014) Irish writer
Small talk: Dermot Healy, 2011
David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
Anecdotes
Source: A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 94.
Aurangzeb (1618–1707) Sixth Mughal Emperor
Siyaha Waqai Darbar, Julus (R.Yr.) 10, Rabi II, 17 / 26th September 1667.
Quotes from late medieval histories, 1660s
Marco Rubio (1971) U.S. Senator from state of Florida, United States; politician
Fox & Friends, Fox News, , quoted in * 2013-02-13
GOP ‘Savior’ Marco Rubio Mocks Climate Change
Adam
Peck
Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/13/1588411/gop-savior-marco-rubio-mocks-climate-change/
Referring to a statement in his State of the Union response, "When we point out that no matter how many job-killing laws we pass, our government can't control the weather — he accuses us of wanting dirty water and dirty air."
2010s, 2013
Caldwell Esselstyn (1933) American physician, author and rower
Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease https://books.google.it/books?id=WDjZpJXEQwkC&pg=PT0 (New York: Penguin, 2007), ch. 1.
Dave Grohl (1969) American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter
Quoted in Shirley Halperin, "My Summer With the Foo Fighters," http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20056567_9,00.html Entertainment Weekly (2007-09-21)
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864–1958) lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom
The Future of Civilization (1938)
Mart Laar (1960) Estonian politician and historian
Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, for 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast (24 March 2010), when asked how he learned the fate of Friedman's policies in the Western world.
“Stop beatin round the bush,
Let's get it on.”
Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) American singer-songwriter and musician
Let's Get It On.
Song lyrics, Let's Get It On (1973)
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
Who You Love, written by Jihn Mayer and Katy Perry
Song lyrics, Paradise Valley (2013)
Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) First Prime Minister of Singapore
Lee Kuan Yew, Interview with Fareed Zakaria of Foreign Policy, 1994 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/1994-03-01/conversation-lee-kuan-yew <br class="br">1990s
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
Letter to Monica Jones, 22 October 1967
Parker Palmer (1939) American theologian
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), p. 54
Tim Jackson book Prosperity Without Growth
Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow, 2017 edition, Routledge, page 20.
Prosperity Without Growth
Edward S. Herman (1925–2017) American journalist
Herman, “King of Chaos”, Z Magazine, March 2016, pp. 4-6.
2010s
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher
Nous sommes fatigués de l'arbre. Nous ne devons plus croire aux arbres, aux racines ni aux radicelles. Nous en avons trop souffert. Toute la culture arborescente est fondée sur eux, de la biologie à la linguistique. Au contraire, rien n'est beau, rien n'est amoureux, rien n'est politique, sauf les tiges souterraines et les racines aériennes, l'adventice et le rhizome.
from A Thousand Plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia, p. 15
Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989) Religious leader, politician
Speech on the day of Mohammed's birth (1984)
Foreign policy
Roger Williams (theologian) (1603–1684) English Protestant theologian and founder of the colony of Providence Plantation
The Hireling Ministry, None of Christ's (1652)
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Letter to Cassandra (1801-05-21) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Suhayl ibn Amr soldier
in negotiating Treaty of Hudaybiyyah (628)
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Source: The Subversion of Christianity (1984), p. 40
Bobby Hull (1939) Canadian ice hockey player
Quoted in Andrew Podnieks, "One on One with Bobby Hull," http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/spot_oneononep198302.htm Legends of Hockey.net (2001-12-11) <br class="br">Hull comments on his belief that the most fundamental aspect of ice hockey is skating.
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 157
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.
“I know more than I knew before
I didn't rest I didn't stop
Did we fight or did we talk.”
Leslie Feist (1976) Canadian musician
"I Feel It All"
The Reminder (2007)
Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer
Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge
Alicia Silverstone (1976) American actress
"How to Transition from Vegetarianism to Veganism", in The Kind Life (9 April 2013) http://thekindlife.com/blog/2013/04/how-to-transition-from-vegetarian-to-vegan/
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
Danny! (1983) American rapper
"Misery"
Albums, And I Love H.E.R. (2008)
Arnold Hano (1922) American writer
From Running Wild, pp. 14-15
Other Topics
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Conciousness.
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
Piers Anthony (1934) English-American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres
Alice, on her suicide
Ghost (1986)
Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
1990s, Why "Free Software" is better than "Open Source" (1998)
Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) founder of al-Qaeda
Video statement broadcast on the Arabic-language Al-Jazeera TV station. (26 December 2001) http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/world/0302/timeline.bin.laden.audio/content.5.html. <br class="br">2000s, 2002
Mohan Bhagwat (1950) Indian activist
As quoted in " RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat demands '100 per cent' unity within the BJP to ensure 'nationalist' victory in polls http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rss-chief-mohan-bhagwat-warns-bjp-against-infighting/1/343753.html", India Today (16 February 2014) <br class="br">2011-2014
Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen
The Dragon Queen
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living (2016) https://books.google.ae/books?idnu0lCwAAQBAJ&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIMjAE
Jonathan Edwards book Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)
Marc Andreessen (1971) American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
Source: On the Indian rejection of Free Basics, Twitter, February 20, 2016 - http://thenextweb.com/in/2016/02/10/marc-andreessen-just-offended-1-billion-indians-with-a-single-tweet/
Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
"Atwood in the Twittersphere", The New York Review of Books (29 March 2010) http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/482335188/atwood-in-the-twittersphere
John Roecker (1966) American film director
Ann Hornaday — quoted in The Washington Post, The Washington Post Company, One Forgettable 'Freak' Show, January 27, 2006, Ann, Hornaday http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012600739.html, <br class="br">About
Jack Johnson (musician) (1975) American musician
Upside Down.
Song lyrics, Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George (2006)
Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels
Lewis Armistead, Part IV, CH 4: Armistead, p. 347
The Killer Angels (1974)
E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist
Albergo Empedocle
The Life to Come and other stories (1972)
Ariel Sharon (1928–2014) prime minister of Israel and Israeli general
Address by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Fourth Herzliya Conference, December 18, 2003; cited in: Terje Rød-Larsen, Fabrice Aidan, Nur Laiq (2014), The Search for Peace in the Arab-Israeli Conflict. p. 373
2000s
Paul Auster book Oracle Night
Paul Auster, Oracle Night, New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 92.
Oracle Night (2003)
Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
On the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 breaking box office records. — Zap2it.com (27 June 2004) http://www.zap2it.com/movies/go?path=/movies/news/story&general_id=22014 <br class="br">2004, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
“Stop thinking about failing.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 75
Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. xxii
George F. Kennan (1904–2005) American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
VII. Far East
Memo PPS23 (1948)
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
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
1998 a memo to the Office product group http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf <br class="br">1990s
Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
March 12, 2010
Friday Night SmackDown
Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) American general in the American Revolutionary War
Letter to George Washington (January 1780)