#mention

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? ↗

— George Carlin

#fight #fighters #fire #freedom #mention

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#competitive #concept #days #excellence #explicitly

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#formulas #future #i #involves #mentioned

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#fan #grown #had #i #large

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#been #body #extremely #human #human body

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#great #mentioned #mexican #mexico #novels

I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname. ↗

— Dick Lane

#decided #good #i #keep #mentioned

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double. ↗

— Ian McDiarmid

#brilliant #byrne #double #get #great

If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#any #cause #caused #had #i