
— Glen Cook, buch Shadows Linger
Quelle: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 32, “Juniper: Visitors” (p. 365)
Response when asked whether he called himself an atheist or an agnostic. The Voice of Genius: Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries by Denis Brian (1995), Basic Books, p. 49.
Kontext: [I call myself] an atheist. Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.
— Glen Cook, buch Shadows Linger
Quelle: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 32, “Juniper: Visitors” (p. 365)
— Roberto Clemente Puerto Rican baseball player 1934 - 1972
As quoted by Les Biederman—who, not coincidentally, notes both Clemente's successful suppression of "the home run urge" and his ability to "hit for distance with the best" (the former earning the "unqualified praise of George Sisler")—in The Sporting News (June 1, 1960), p. 7
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1960</big>
— Minnie Haskins British poet and sociologist 1875 - 1957
Her reaction on hearing her poem. Daily Telegraph, 16 Aug 2008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherhowse/3561497/At-the-Gate-of-the-Year.html
— Bert McCracken American musician 1982
Steve Knopper (January 30, 2003) "Far, Far From Utah for The Used", Newsday, Newsday Inc., p. B33.
— Jennifer Beals American actress and a former teen model 1963
Interview with Jian Gomeshi, CBC Radio Q (16 February 2011) http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/QTV_on_bol...2/ID=1886977325/
„Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.“
— Jean Cocteau French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker 1889 - 1963
— David Foster Wallace American fiction writer and essayist 1962 - 2008
"Good Old Neon", Oblivion: Stories
Short stories
— Jennifer Beals American actress and a former teen model 1963
Interview with Jian Gomeshi, CBC Radio Q (16 February 2011) http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/QTV_on_bol...2/ID=1886977325/.
„I accept this idea of democracy. I am all for trying it out.“
— Zora Neale Hurston American folklorist, novelist, short story writer 1891 - 1960
"Crazy for This Democracy" in Negro Digest (December 1945).
Kontext: I accept this idea of democracy. I am all for trying it out. It must be a good thing if everybody praises it like that. If our government has been willing to go to war and sacrifice billions of dollars and millions of men for the idea I think that I ought to give the thing a trial.
The only thing that keeps me from pitching head long into this thing is the presence of numerous Jim Crow laws on the statute books of the nation. I am crazy about the idea of Democracy. I want to see how it feels.
— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919
"Platform Insincerity" in The Outlook, Vol. 101, No. 13 (27 July 1912), p. 660
1910s
— Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951
Quelle: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 1.
„I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.“
— Bill Hicks American comedian 1961 - 1994
„“Let’s be obvious. Me brute, you weasel.”
“Agreed. You brute, me charming mastermind.”“
— Scott Lynch, buch The Republic of Thieves
Quelle: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 2 (p. 254)
— Romain Gary, buch Promise at Dawn
Promise at Dawn (1960) as quoted in "Great Pretenders" by Emma Garman in Tablet (31 October 2007) http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/906/great-pretenders/
— Black Elk Oglala Lakota leader 1863 - 1950
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
Kontext: They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life. I knew it was the Grandfathers in the Flaming Rainbow Tepee who had cured me; but I felt afraid to say so. My father gave Whirlwind Chaser the best horse he had for making me well, and many people came to look at me, and there was much talk about the great power of Whirlwind Chaser who had made me well all at once when I was almost the same as dead.
Everybody was glad that I was living; but as I lay there thinking about the wonderful place where I had been and all that I had seen, I was very sad; for it seemed to me that everybody ought to know about it, but I was afraid to tell, because I knew that nobody would believe me, little as I was, for I was only nine years old. Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
I am sure now that I was then too young to understand it all, and that I only felt it. It was the pictures I remembered and the words that went with them; for nothing I have ever seen with my eyes was so clear and bright as what my vision showed me; and no words that I have ever heard with my ears were like the words I heard. I did not have to remember these things; they have remembered themselves all these years. It was as I grew older that the meanings came clearer and clearer out of the pictures and the words; and even now I know that more was shown to me than I can tell.