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Britain is basically Pompeii if Pompeii had voted for the volcano.
John Oliverborn 1977Last Week Tonight (2014–present), On Brexit.The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929–1994Advice to her secretary; quoted in The Kennedys (1984) by Peter Collier and David Horowitz- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929–1994The New York Times (15 September 1960)
George Orwell1903–1950Coming Up for Air, Part 1, Ch. 3You don’t accidentally become an asshole. It takes a bit of work.
Ozzy Osbourne1948–2025What I’ve Learned (2005)- Ozzy Osbourne1948–2025What I’ve Learned (2005)
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 174Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 187- Camille Pagliaborn 1947Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays (1992), “Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf”, p. 174
Avoid running at all times.
And don’t look back— something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige1906–1982“How to Stay Young,” Collier’s Magazine (13 June 1953)
Sarah Palinborn 19642008 Republican National Convention- Sarah Palinborn 19642008 Republican National Convention
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say No in any of them.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967A similar line was later used by Ira Gershwin in “The Saga of Jenny” in Lady in the Dark (1942): “In 27 languages she couldn’t say no.”
