„Patrick: One of my favorite rumors about myself is that I am 31, which is just about 10 years off, so…
Pete: He's 41, you mother fuckers.“

„I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.“

—  Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942

„Blay’s head whipped around to his mate. “Really? You asked my dad?” Qhuinn nodded, then started to smile like a mother fucker. “It’s my one and only shot. So I wanted to follow protocol.“

—  Jessica Bird U.S. novelist 1969

Источник: Lover at Last

„[On Looking 31 at 41] I still have plenty of vices, but alcohol isn't one of them. It's probably just down to sleep and diet. If you travel long haul a lot or don't sleep much, it's not going to last very long, that's for sure. I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process.“

—  Jared Leto American actor and musician 1971

Interview http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/jared-leto-hugo-boss-red-fragrance-interview for British GQ, 5 March 2013.

„I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.“

—  Stephen King American author 1947

Источник: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

„Hi, I'm Patrick Stump. And I'm wearing Pete's pants.“

—  Patrick Stump American musician 1984

Friends or Enemies.com

„The whole thing is so much bigger than I am, and I can't understand it, so I just trust myself to it; and forget about it.“

—  Edwin Hubble American astronomer 1889 - 1953

Hubble's reply when asked about his beliefs from a friend, as quoted in Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae (1996) by Gale E. Christianson, p. 183.

„I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.“

—  Eoin Colfer Irish author of children's books 1965

Источник: The Time Paradox

„I want to put to rest the speculation and unfounded rumors of my imminent retirement… I am not about to announce my retirement. I will continue to perform my duties as chief justice as long as my health permits.“

—  William H. Rehnquist Chief Justice of the United States 1924 - 2005

Written statement reacting to speculation that he might retire from the US Supreme Court after Sandra Day O'Connor declared that she would. (July 2005).
Books, articles, and speeches

„My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.“

—  Sylvia Plath, книга The Bell Jar

Источник: The Bell Jar

„I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied.“

—  Charles Krauthammer American journalist 1950 - 2018

2010s, 2016, Donald Trump and the fitness threshold (2016)
Контексте: Of course we all try to protect our own dignity and command respect. But Trump’s hypersensitivity and unedited, untempered Pavlovian responses are, shall we say, unusual in both ferocity and predictability.
This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.

„As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' … I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?“

—  Nancy Bird Walton Australian aviatrix 1915 - 2009

Nancy Bird Walton in an interview with George Negus on George Negus Tonight, 8 March 2004 http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/aviation/aviatrices/

„I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am…. It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother?“

—  Laurie Halse Anderson American children's writer 1961

Источник: Twisted

„So from the age of 10, I became anorexic, and then bulimic, and then stayed that way for about 20 years, until one day I just said, "Hey, what if this is it? What if this is just what I look like and nothing I do changes that? So how much time would I save if I stopped taking that extra second every time I look in the mirror to call myself a big fat fuck? How much time would I save if I just let myself walk by a plate-glass window without sucking in my gut and throwing back my shoulders? How much time would I save?"“

—  Margaret Cho American stand-up comedian 1968

And it turns out I save about 97 minutes a week. I can take a pottery class.
From Her Tours and CDs, The Notorious C.H.O. Tour

„I don’t feel ill about anyone. I don’t even feel nice about anyone. I just don’t think about them. I am selfish that way. I think about myself, my films and my friends.“

—  Shahrukh Khan Indian actor, producer and television personality 1965

From interview with Pratim D. Gupta

„I was vegetarian for about 10 years, decided within that 10 years to just go full vegan … It's been 15 years of no flesh. What inspired me was as I learned more about the abuses to animals and the way meat was brought to the table and everything that these creatures were going through. It was just another motivation and reason for me to live the lifestyle that felt true to my soul and my spirit. … You don't realize what food tastes like until you stop eating meat. It's like something happens to your palate, it just gets cleansed and the simplest thing—a tomato—tastes like the most vibrant, amazing thing on the planet. My energy is fantastic.“

—  Kimberly Elise actress 1967

“Kimberly Elise's Vegan Testimonial,” video interview with PETA (21 August 2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ZUAmo7dLg.

„I was introduced to Langston Hughes, who became one of my favorite poets…I mean, he was a poet; he wasn’t about words, he was a poet, he had rhythm.“

—  Pedro Pietri Puerto Rican writer 1944 - 2004

On starting off in poetry (as quoted in the book “Race and the Modern Artist” https://books.google.com/books?id=4XY8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq)

„From '41 to '51
I was my folk's contrary son;
I bit my father's hand right through
And broke my mother's heart in two.“

—  John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy

Opening lines
The Everlasting Mercy (1919)

„For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.“

—  Edgar Rice Burroughs, книга Tarzan of the Apes

Источник: Tarzan of the Apes

„I know what the power of silence is. When I used to play in clubs, everybody was loud; there was a lot of noise. So I would take my mute off the microphone, and I would play something so soft that you could hardly hear it… and you talk about listening. Roy Eldridge did that. He's one of my favorites.“

—  Miles Davis American jazz musician 1926 - 1991

As quoted in Jazz-Rock Fusion: The People, The Music, p. 40
1970s