„There may be a moral here. For the life of me I can’t find it.“
— Arthur C. Clarke, buch What Goes Up
Quelle: 2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001), What Goes Up, p. 529
„Meaning in life can’t be reduced to simplistic mottos. In some number of years I will be dead; some memory of my time here on Earth may linger, but I won’t be around to savor it.“
Chap. 1 : The Fundamental Nature of Reality
The Big Picture (2016)
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Sean M. Carroll
US-amerikanischer Astrophysiker 1966Ähnliche Zitate
— Walt Disney American film producer and businessman 1901 - 1966
Speech on the opening day of Disneyland (17 July 1955) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf2TMwtCUr4
Kontext: To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
— Ozzy Osbourne English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter 1948
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— Kent Hovind American young Earth creationist 1953
I think this whole flat earth thing is another one of those.
Dr. Kent Hovind Q/A - Atheism/Evolution Questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiftK13Qwl0, Youtube (July 26, 2015)
— Bill Gates American business magnate and philanthropist 1955
Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time (1997) by Daniel Gross ISBN 0471196533
1990s
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
Canto I
1840s, My Childhood's Home I See Again (1844 - 1846)
— Ma Xiaowei Chinese politician 1959
Ma Xiaowei (2020) cited in " Wuhan Coronavirus Can Be Infectious Before People Show Symptoms, Official Claims https://www.sciencealert.com/wuhan-coronavirus-can-be-infectious-before-people-show-symptoms-official-claims" on Science Alert, 26 January 2020.
— Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020
A speech after Bryant's last game, 13 April 2016, posted on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg0mxPXIpLY&t=5s.
— Steve Martin American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer 1945
As "Rigby Reardon" in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
— Adolf Hitler Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party 1889 - 1945
As quoted in Hitler and Nazism (1961) by Louis Leo Snyder, p. 66
Other remarks
— Peter Jennings News anchor 1938 - 2005
Memo to his staff announcing that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. (April 2005)
„I think if you don't have some obsession in your life, you're dead.“
— Neil Young Canadian singer-songwriter 1945
— Theodore Kaczynski American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist 1942
Answer given when he was asked if he was afraid of losing his mind in prison. Interview with Ted Kaczynski http://web.archive.org/web/20061003044754/www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk/profiles/ted.html
Interviews
„I am just going outside. I may be some time.“
— Lawrence Oates British explorer 1880 - 1912
On Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition, while suffering from frostbite and sheltering from a blizzard, Oates felt he was decreasing his companions' chances of survival. Oates voluntarily left the tent; it was his 32nd birthday. He was never seen again.
Quoted in R. F. Scott's diary, published as Scott's Last Expedition, ch.20
Variante: I am just going outside and may be some time.
— Tom Kean, Jr. Member of the New Jersey General Assembly and State Senate 1968
On Jon Corzine's Budget (April 6, 2006); "The Corzine Budget: Same Old Tax and Spend ", Tom's Blog" (April 6, 2006) http://tomkean.com/today/index.cfm?e=user.about.blog&messageID=76.
— Emma Goldman anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches 1868 - 1940
Responding to audience questions during a speech in Detroit (1898); as recounted in Living My Life (1931), p. 207; quoted by Annie Laurie Gaylor in Women Without Superstition, p. 382
Kontext: Ladies and gentlemen, I came here to avoid as much as possible treading on your corns. I had intended to deal only with the basic issue of economics that dictates our lives from the cradle to the grave, regardless of our religion or moral beliefs. I see now that it was a mistake. If one enters a battle, he cannot be squeamish about a few corns. Here, then, are my answers: I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made.
As to killing rulers, it depends entirely on the position of the ruler. If it is the Russian Czar, I most certainly believe in dispatching him to where he belongs. If the ruler is as ineffectual as an American President, it is hardly worth the effort. There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. As for the gentleman who asked if free love would not build more houses of prostitution, my answer is: They will all be empty if the men of the future look like him.
