„Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.“
— Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village
Zdroj: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 1.
„The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.“
— Truman Capote, kniha In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood (1965)
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— Mohammad Hidayatullah 11th Chief Justice of India 1905 - 1992
Naipaul is sui generis.
Lee Kuan Yew's comment when he received him as Vice President of India, the first Muslim Chief Justice of India in Singapore in 1981
Zdroj: Sunanda K. Datta-Ray Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India http://books.google.co.in/books?id=DFo1yl5AGokC&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009, p. 230.
— Walter Goffart American historian 1934
Zdroj: Quotaes, Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584(1980), p. 35
— Ilana Mercer South African writer
"Trump’s Good for the English Language," http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/trumps-good-for-the-english-language/ WorldNetDaily.com, September 17, 2015.
2010s, 2015
— Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Zdroj: Wall and Piece (2007)
— Jacques Barzun Historian 1907 - 2012
"Schooling No Mystery," Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning (1991)
— Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro," first published in Esquire (August 1936); later published in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
„The village muezzin called the faithful to prayer. Diane ignored the sound.“
— Robert Charles Wilson, kniha Axis
Zdroj: Axis (2007), Chapter 11 (p. 149)
„I'll show you a place, high on the desert plain. Where the streets have no name“
— Bono Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960
"Where the streets have no name"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
„Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
— Grace Paley American writer and activist 1922 - 2007
"Goodbye and Good Luck" (1959)
— John Marks Templeton stock investor, businessman and philanthropist 1912 - 2008
The Quotable Sir John
— Horatius Bonar British minister and poet 1808 - 1889
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 555.
„If you have a message, call western union.“
— Samuel Goldwyn American film producer (1879-1974). 1879 - 1974
The popular attribution to Goldwyn is false according to his biographer in A. Scott Berg, Goldwyn: A Biography (1998). The earliest known print attribution is to Moss Hart in Van Wert (Ohio) Times Bulletin (26 August 1954) as cited in Fred Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006). Also attributed to Humphrey Bogart in Stephen Humphrey Bogart, Bogart: In Search of My Father (1995), and to Ernest Hemingway in James R. Mellow, Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences (1992).
Misattributed
— Herm Edwards American football player, coach and analyst 1954
Edwards in a press conference after losing six consecutive games.
With Kansas City
Zdroj: December 13, 2007, http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2007/12/11/herm_edwards_press_conference__1211/, Kansas City Chiefs - Herm Edwards Press Conference - 12/11, 13 December 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20071213163651/http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2007/12/11/herm_edwards_press_conference__1211/,
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
Zdroj: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. vii
— Jerome Frank American jurist 1889 - 1957
Judge Learned Hand, reprinted in A Man's Reach: The Philosophy of Judge Jerome Frank (1965), page 49.