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“Don't underestimate the influence of the Surrealist state of mind on the young American painters [like his artist-friends William Baziotes and w:Roberto Matta in those days.”
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Abstract Painting, Thomas Hess, New York, Viking 1951, p. 132
“I want to be with my friends. I'm drunk. I want to phone my mum. She's going to be embarrassed by this conversation. I don't care. I don't give a fuck about it.”
Tracey Emin (born 1963) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Clare Longrigg, "Sixty Minutes, Noise: by art's bad girl", The Guardian, (1997-12-04)
“It is well said: 'He who lacks a single tael sees many bargains,'" replied Sun Wei, a refined bitterness weighing the import of his words. "Truly this person's friends in the Upper Air are a never-failing lantern behind his back.”
Ernest Bramah (1868–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The main thing for me right now is just to live my life with my family and friends. They treat me like Leo, not 'Leonardo, Master Thespian'. That's all I need to keep my sanity.”
Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.”
Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Maybe you don't like some of the things I've said tonight, that's ok. Maybe you don't like me. I could care less. Especially you Christians, you don't gotta like me, you gotta love me. See, I'm a member of your family. And you can pick your friends, but you're stuck with your relatives!”
Mike Warnke (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do! I don't remember ever saying it in a movie, but now, every once in a while when I'm with friends, I say, "Judeeee, Judeeee, Judeeee," and everyone breaks up. Isn't that a good imitation of an imitation of an imitator?”
Cary Grant (1904–1986) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In response to interviewer Hy Gardner's query as to which impressionist did the best version of that signature catch-phrase; in "Q & A on Cary Grant", Variety (January 7, 1970), p. 45
“The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.”
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chagall's early work in the Soviet Union, Alexander Kamensky; as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 41
“As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try to become vegan and maybe be a band with some good friends and be making a living and be happy with how much money I have.”
Rachel Trachtenburg (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Amigos de la prensa, yo me voy. Felicidades. "Friends of the press, I'm going. Congratulations." (press conference on May 20, 2000 about his departure from FC Barcelona)”
Louis van Gaal (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was my sensual excessiveness that jarred him [ Jasper Johns.] He was always an intellectual. He read a lot, he wrote poetry – he would read Hart Crane's poems to me, which I loved but didn't have the patience to read myself – and he was often critical of things like my grammar. But you don't let a thing like that bother you if you have only two or three real friends.”
Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So at last the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement and took over Greenpeace so that my friends who founded it left within a year because they'd captured it. Now the apotheosis is at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world.”
Christopher Monckton (born 1952) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Monckton climate change video goes viral wattsupwiththat.com (16 November 2009).
“One of the girls who was among my best friends came from a poverty-stricken home. Her family was delightful and I used to wonder how such things could happen...”
Frances Perkins (1880–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“lists of sins and solemn vows don't make you any friends.”
Joanna Newsom (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won’t be nothing. We’ll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we’ll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we’ll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.”
Philip Pullman (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Somewhere beneath her hurried curse, A corpse lies bounding in a hearse; And friends and relatives disperse, And are not stirred.”
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think he was delighted to see you safe," said the magus, "and grieved that the next time you meet, it must be as king and king and not as friends.”
Megan Whalen Turner (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over — for I hate cruelty and intolerance.”
Oskar Schindler (1908–1974) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remark in 1972, as quoted in "Schindler: Why did he do it?" (2010) by Louis Bülow.
“I have nothing to report, my friends. If you want to find the meaning, Stop chasing after so many things.”
Ryōkan (1758–1831) said by 1831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Milly was a woman of rare stature and nobility who rejected all that was ugly and mean. She was like a mother to her younger friends and comrades; even in her later years she was always surrounded by young people, who loved and revered her. Wherever we lived our modest home was a gathering place for people of different races and nationalities and it was Milly to whom it owed its warmth and charm.”
Rudolf Rocker (1873–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.”
Ernst Röhm (1887–1934) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Kurt Ludecke in January, 1934. Quoted in "History's Greatest Conspiracies" - by H. Paul Jeffers - History - 2004
“The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.”
S. J. Perelman (1904–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Strictly from Hunger", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 47
“I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la , it will be no fault of mine.”
John McAfee (1945–2021) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on Twitter, 16 October 2020
“The things that really matter have nothing to do with politics. Love between friends. Good books. The beauties of nature.”
A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'I'd rather look at a lovely view than march on May Day', Daily Herald (4 May 1955), p. 4
“Anwar is as bent as a three-euro note: just bright enough to think he’s smarter than everyone around him, just stupid enough not to realize that they’ve got his number. He’s a walking poster-boy for the Dunning-Kruger Effect: If he says he’s going straight, it probably means one of his idiot friends told him shoplifting is legal.”
Charles Stross (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thank you for that reminder, Jimmy,” says Alan. “Any more compelling insights into why the laws of physics are not our friends?”
Charles Stross (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the heart's album there are treasured faces, Our household darlings, friends which are our own; And with them favorite haunts and cherished places, So dear, they seem but made for us alone.”
Thomas Gold Appleton (1812–1884) first seen 1874 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Places", st. 1. Fresh Leaves (1874) p. 189
“My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like their parents. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.”
Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Long live Germany. Long live Argentina. Long live Austria. These are the three countries with which I have been most connected and which I will not forget. I greet my wife, my family and my friends. I am ready. We'll meet again soon, as is the fate of all men. I die believing in God.”
Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Before his execution in Jerusalem (1 June 1962), as quoted in Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer" by David Cesarani (2006), p. 321. .
“I knew that in this 'promised land' of South America I had a few good friends, to whom I could say openly, freely and proudly that I am Adolf Eichmann, former SS Obersturmbannführer.”
Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meine Flucht, a memoir written by Eichmann in 1961, as quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (2015).
“When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.”
Will Arnett (born 1970) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wit & Wisdom of Will Arnett," Playboy Magazine (March 29, 2007)
“I feel, I really feel, the sacred and mild warmth of true patriotism. I will endeavour to make the narrow circle of my friends happy, I will endeavour to give cheerfulness and ease to the peasantry over whom I may command, I will endeavour to give liberty to my country, and I will endeavour to increase the portion of the knowledge and virtue of humankind.”
Daniel O'Connell (1775–1847) first seen 1795 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal entry (7 January 1797), quoted in Arthur Houston, Daniel O'Connell: His Early Life, and Journal, 1795 to 1802 (1906), p. 174
“Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family.”
Nicolas Sarkozy (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I lived the war in Iraq, and today I still have family and friends fighting in Iraq. My support for our troops is unwavering. I believe this is not a time for finger-pointing, it is a time for truth — the whole truth— vs. hype, and misinformation.”
Jessica Lynch (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sunny ways my friends, sunny ways. This is what positive politics can do.”
Justin Trudeau (born 1971) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: October 20, 2015 (quoting Sir Wilfrid Laurier), reported in Joe O'Connor, 'Sunny ways my friends, sunny ways': Lessons of Wilfrid Laurier not lost on Trudeau, 120 years later, National Post (October 21, 2015).
“My heart goes out to the young girl who was attacked, seemingly for her religion. I can’t imagine how afraid she must have been, I want her and her family and her friends and community to know that that is not what Canada is, that is not who Canadians are… We are better than this.”
Justin Trudeau (born 1971) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement on reported attacks on a girl wearing a hijab, as quoted in "Until it was found to be a hoax, Toronto girl's hijab made news, not the attack on her", by Joseph Brean, National Post (15 January 2018)
“John Lewis was a fearless advocate for what he knew to be true, and he never stopped fighting for equality and justice. My thoughts are with his family and friends - and all who have been inspired by his work, words, lifetime of service and action, and the good trouble he caused.”
Justin Trudeau (born 1971) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement on Twitter remarking on the life of U.S. Democratic congressman and longtime civil rights leader John Lewis, after his death at the age of 80 (18 July 2020)
“Congratulations, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Our two countries are close friends, partners, and allies. We share a relationship that’s unique on the world stage. I’m really looking forward to working together and building on that with you both.”
Justin Trudeau (born 1971) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement on Twitter in response to the official announcement that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had won the momentous and hotly-contested 2020 United States presidential election, defeating Republicans Donald Trump and M…
“We have lost an icon. Almost every night for more than three decades, Alex Trebek entertained and educated millions around the world, instilling in so many of us a love for trivia. My deepest condolences to his family, friends, and all who are mourning this tremendous loss.”
Justin Trudeau (born 1971) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement on Twitter marking the death of longtime Jeopardy! host and cultural icon Alex Trebek, native of Sudbury, Ontario who succumbed to complications from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80 (8 November 2020)
“You are sending us back to work with a clear mandate to get Canada through this pandemic, and to the brighter days ahead. My friends, that is exactly what we are ready to do.”
Justin Trudeau (born 1971) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: rudeau's Liberals Win Canada Election, But Miss The Majority In Parliament" (September 21, 2021)
“'What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?'”
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You, HP, promised me a toxic-free COMPUTER by 2009. Now my friends at Greenpeace tell me that I'll have to wait till 2011. What's up with that?”
William Shatner (born 1931) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Company wide voice mail to Hewlett Packard "Green me up, Scotty: William Shatner targets Hewlett-Packard for toxic waste" Bibi van der Zee, The Guardian, (29 July 2009)
“I'm really shallow when I come to guys. I only date really good looking, well-endowed guys, with great bodies. My friends are always going on at me. I'm like "I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!”
Josie Maran (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture. I rebelled against the Mormon church by going to other churches. I rebelled against my parents by not eating meat. I rebelled against my friends and myself by doing drugs. And I rebelled against everything that was holding me down by playing music with these guys.”
Bert McCracken (born 1982) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paul Stewart (July 10, 2005) "The Used gladly sold their souls", The Sunday Telegraph, News Limited, p. 20.
“You should tell the Cambodians (i.e., Khmer Rouge) that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs, but we won't let that stand in the way. We are prepared to improve relations with them. Tell them the latter part, but don’t tell them what I said before.”
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: meeting with Thai foreign minister National Security Archive (November 26, 1975), p. 3, 8
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1788 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Alexander Donald (7 February 1788)
“Whensoever hostile aggressions...require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1806 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Andrew Jackson (3 December 1806)
“In our university [of Virginia] you know there is no Professorship of Divinity. A handle has been made of this, to disseminate an idea that this is an institution, not merely of no religion, but against all religion. Occasion was taken at the last meeting of the Visitors, to bring forward an idea that might silence this calumny, which weighed on the minds of some honest friends to the institution.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1822 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Thomas Cooper (3 November 1822), published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 12, p. 272
“Life's visions are vanished, it's dreams are no more. Dear friends of my bosom, why bathed in tears? I go to my fathers; I welcome the shore, which crowns all my hopes, or which buries my cares. Then farewell my dear, my lov'd daughter, Adieu! The last pang in life is in parting from you. Two Seraphs await me, long shrouded in death; I will bear them your love on my last parting breath.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1782 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A death-bed Adieu from Th. J. to M. R." Jefferson's poem to his eldest child, Martha "Patsy" Randolph, written during his last illness in 1826. Two days before his death, Jefferson told Martha that in a certain drawer i…
“[W]here we were obliged to part company with our friends was here—that we held and still hold that war was neither intended nor desired by the Government and the people of Great Britain, but that it was forced upon us without adequate reason, entirely against our will.”
H. H. Asquith (1852–1928) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the Liverpool Street Station Hotel, London (20 June 1901) on the Boer War, quoted in Speeches by The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, K.G. (1927), p. 40