„Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.“
Ellen DeGeneres1
US-amerikanische Schauspielerin, Moderatorin, Komikerin und… 1958Ähnliche Zitate
— Mel Brooks American director, writer, actor, and producer 1926
The 2,000 Year Old Man (and sequels)
„When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Illusions
Widely attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson on the internet; however, a presumably definitive source of Emerson's works at http://www.rwe.org fails to confirm any occurrence of this phrase across his works. This phrase is found in remarks attributed to Charles A. Beard in Arthur H. Secord, "Condensed History Lesson", Readers' Digest, February 1941, p. 20; but the origin has not been determined. Possibly confused with a passage in "Illusions" in which Emerson discusses his experience in the "Star Chamber": "our lamps were taken from us by the guide, and extinguished or put aside, and, on looking upwards, I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly over our heads, and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. All the party were touched with astonishment and pleasure. Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, “The stars are in the quiet sky,” &c., and I sat down on the rocky floor to enjoy the serene picture. Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead, reflecting the light of a half–hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect."
Misattributed
„When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.“
— Charles A. Beard American historian 1874 - 1948
Misattributed
Variante: When its dark enough you can see the stars.
„A hat not much the worse for wear.“
— William Cowper (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731 - 1800
St. 46.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1785)
„Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
Variante: Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Kontext: But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
— Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965
Jennifer Romanello, Chapter 30, p. 323
2000s, The Guardian (2003)
— Fausto Cercignani Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941
Adagio (2004)
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004)
— Slash (musician) British-American musician and songwriter 1965
Interview with Rock Guitar Player Magazine, 2003.
— Galileo Galilei, buch Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Salviati, p. 88
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
— L. Frank Baum, buch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Quelle: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Kontext: The Scarecrow listened carefully, and said, "I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas."
"That is because you have no brains" answered the girl. "No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home."
The Scarecrow sighed.
"Of course I cannot understand it," he said. "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains."
„If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.“
— Dorothy Parker American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893 - 1967
— Michael Parenti American academic 1933
2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Some Call It Censorship, p. 150
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
Said about Absinthe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe. Quoted in “Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde: With Reminiscences of the Author" by Ada Leverson (London: Duckworth, 1930)
