Misquotations
Did Casa Blanca die in vain?
Archive for Quotations
Fish and lovers
Book-throwing quote
The Grammar of ’Splaining
On WHYY’s “Radio Times” this week, in discussing Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, host Marty Moss-Coane asked her guest, “So what kind of ’splainin to do does Mark Zuckerberg have?” I’m just charmed by the construction of her sentence. It refers, of course, to one of the great Lines That […]
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Pants revisited
Let them eat…
Mary Anne was talking about eating cake the night before surgery. I noted that cake is the best medicine. Which led me to think there could be a whole series...
Fear no noxious
The other day, Kam and I watched the Lost (season 2) episode titled “The 23rd Psalm.” And she joked, “The 23rd Psalm—isn't that ‘I must not fear; fear is the...
The mills of the gods
Back in 2002, I posted an entry in my main blog about the Longfellow line “Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small” and its antecedents,...
Mantisisms
I've been meaning for a while to collect in one place all the quotes from my sardonic pal Jack Mantis. Recently discovered the "pages" publishing system in Movable Type—sort of...