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DeLILLO, Don
CitationMisquotesContextSource ISBNCitation “Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.” ~Don DeLillo, American author White Noise (1985) New York: Penguin Books, 1999 edition, p. 66 Misquotes Misattibution note: At least one quotation book has incorrectly attributed DeLillo’s quote to American author Joan Didion. Although Didion did write about California in works such as “Notes from a Native Daughter,” Repeat Right editors could find no evidence supporting Didion as the original author of the “Californians invented the concept of life-style...” quote. Context Extended excerpt [Fiction – character ‘Alfonse,’ speaking to lunch companions]: “This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, earthquakes, mass killings,
DEKKER, Thomas
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Honest labour bears a lovely face.” ~Thomas Dekker, English playwright With co-authors Henry Chettle & William Haughton, Patient Grissel: A Comedy (1599) Act I, Scene I, ‘reprint from the black-letter edition of 1603,’ London: Shakespeare Society, 1841, p. 9; online via Oxford University & Google Books, books.google.com Context Extended excerpt [Play, Character ‘Babulo,’ “The Song” – to ‘Janiculo’ & ‘Grissil’]: “Work apace, apace, apace, apace; Honest labour bears a lovely face; Then hey noney, noney, hey noney, noney.” (p. 9) Source Link Source link: Patient Grissel: A Comedy (1599|1841 reprint of 1603 edition) online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=KaINAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Dekker+%2B+Patient+Grissel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjopLnn6a_YAhWCh1QKHabACfUQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=honest&f=false CitationContextSource LinkCitation “This age thinks better of a gilded
DABNEY, Charles
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Democracy means self-government; self-government necessitates universal education; and universal education can only be accomplished by free public schools under the control of all the people. Let us have done with these hackneyed arguments against the public school.” ~Charles W. Dabney, American scientist & educator “Inaugural Address of President Dabney”(16 November 1904) University of Cincinnati Music Hall Auditorium, Cincinnati, OH; University of Cincinnati Record, Vol. I, No. 3, December 1904 –January 1905, p. 30; online via New York Public Library & Google Books, books.google.com Context Extended excerpt [Address as the incoming University of Cincinnati president. Dabney held a doctorate in chemistry and had previously served as an agricultural specialist,
CURTIS, George William
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Politicians whose hopes rest upon the popular ignorance and prejudice, and not upon the popular intelligence, furiously sneer at the idea of equality. It is important, therefore, that every man should understand what human equality is. It is an elemental lesson, but the attack is made at the very foundation and must be met there.” ~George William Curtis, American author & orator “The American Doctrine of Liberty,” Address to the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society (17 July 1863) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; in Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis, Vol. I, ed. Charles Eliot Norton, New York: Harper & Bros., 1894, p. 105; online via Stanford University
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LEWIS, Anthony
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NABOKOV, Vladimir
CitationMisquotesContextSource ISBNCitation “Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.” ~Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American author “Commentary” (1962) Pale Fire, New York, NY: G.P.Putnam’s Sons, p. 272 Misquotes Re-quote note: Although Nabokov didn't include commas in his original line, it is often paraphrased with additional punctuation: “Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.” Context Extended excerpt [Fiction. Punctuation is original to cited source.]: “If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.” (p. 272) Source ISBN Source: Library -
YOUNG, Edward
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “All men think all men mortal, but themselves.” ~Edward Young, English poet “The Complaint. Night the First” (1742) in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I, London: D. Dodsley, 1742 second edition, p. 28, line 422; online via University of California & Google Books, books.google.com Context Extended excerpt [Spelling & capitalization as found in original text]: “All men think all men Mortal, but themselves; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes thro’ their wounded hearts the suddain Dread; But their hearts wounded, like the wounded Air, Soon close, where past the shaft, no Trace is found” (p. 28, lines 421 – 425)
BABBITT, Natalie
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Readers are lucky – they will never be bored or lonely.” ~Natalie Babbitt, American author Contribution to Once Upon a Time…Celebrating the Magic of Children’s Books in Honor of the Twentieth Anniversary of Reading is Fundamental (1986) New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, p. 45 Context Extended excerpt [Essay contribution to a collection honoring the Reading is Fundamental (RIF) program]: “With books, your inner world has no walls. And in reading – and writing – stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It’s amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet
BURGER, Warren
“History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.”
KISSINGER, Henry