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If I had as many love affairs as you’ve given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.
Frank Sinatra1915–1998Pop Chronicles: Show 22—Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66: A skinny dip in the easy listening mainstream. (Part 1), 1965.
- Love
Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.
Iain Banks1954–2013Transition (2009), Chapter 13 (p. 326)
- Clever Jabs
- Politics
Here in two flat sentences are the best things I can say about our field on American television: Dr. Who is sometimes aired. Sometimes Battlestar Galactica is not.
Gene Wolfe1931–2019Guest of Honor speech at Aussiecon Two (August 1985), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
- Clever Jabs
- Television
The Prime Minister must realise that in this country there is a taunt, on everyone’s lips, that if Rommel had been in the British Army, he would still have been a sergeant.
Aneurin Bevan1897–1960Speech in the House of Commons (2 July 1942)
- Clever Jabs
- War & Peace
I, who said forty years ago that we should have had Socialism already but for the Socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928)
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- Politics
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Golda Meir1898–1978At a dinner honoring West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, as reported in The New York Times (11 June 1973, p. 3)
We have long referred to him as “The Donald.” He is the only person in America to whom we have added an article before his name. It wasn’t because he had attributes we admired.
Mitt Romneyborn 1947Remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 race
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It’s an abominable place. If there was an Old Testamental God, he would do his job and wipe the place out. The only bad thing is that some really good restaurants would go up as well.
Terry Gilliamborn 1940About Hollywood. As quoted in the New York Times article Terry Gilliam’s Feel-Good Endings (14 August 2005)
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- Movies
I want to hang a map of the world in my house, and then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map, so it won’t fall down.
MHMitch Hedberg1968–2005Mitch All Together (2003)
If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
Yogi Berra1925–2015When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball’s Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, , p. 154
And reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Stephen Colbertborn 1964White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (April 2006)
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- Politics
Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III (12 October 1779)
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005“Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl”, Rolling Stone #155 (28 February 1974); repr. in The Great Shark Hunt (1979)
Balance, that’s the secret. Moderate extremism.
Edward Abbey1927–1989Desert Solitaire (1968), “Bedrock and Paradox”, p. 233
Do you know what I need for my knee? Some tequila.
Pope Francis1936–2025“Pope Francis’ answer for his bad knee? Tequila”, PBS, May 17 2022