Author: Dwight Garner Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374722145 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 164
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A selection of favorite quotes that the celebrated literary critic has collected over the decades. From Dwight Garner, the New York Times book critic, comes a rollicking, irreverent, scabrous, amazingly alive selection of unforgettable moments from forty years of wide and deep reading. Garner’s Quotations is like no commonplace book you’ll ever read. If you’ve ever wondered what’s really going on in the world of letters today, this book will make you sit up and take notice. Unputdownable!
Author: Charles Kyriakou Publisher: ISBN: 9781973205449 Category : Languages : en Pages : 680
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The Ultimate Book of Famous Quotes - 10,000 Famous Quotations to Inspire, Motivate, Comfort and Cheer You! The Ultimate Book of Famous Quotes is perhaps the biggest collection of quotations on Amazon, and at 10,000 entries is up to five times larger than comparable publications to date. This huge collection of quotations has been carefully curated to give you that "light bulb moment" on reading each and every quote. Whether that be to give you a new perspective on life and living, or simply to make you laugh out loud, this collection will not disappoint.The Ultimate Book of Quotes contains quotations from notables throughout history to the present day - from Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Mahatma Gandhi, all the way to cultural heroes from stage, screen and fashion, such as Coco Chanel and Lady Gaga. The range of quotations is simply astounding, and the number and diversity of notables whose contribution have been catalogued will amaze you. I very much hope that this book will continue to be a go-to reference to you for years to come.Each quotation is shown along side the famous person it is ascribed to, and all quotations are grouped by category so that you can find important quotations associated with your interests.
Author: Publisher: Paragon House ISBN: 9781557788641 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book is a treasury of the greatest quotations in western history. It is over two-thirds quotations of the West's greatest thinkers and one-third a brief history of their times. Great Quotations That Shaped the Western World is organized chronologically as a history in "bite-size" portions so that casual readers can use it as a coffee table book for browsing. The longest portions are of the 136 authors in the Chicago Canon of the Great Books, only 11 (mostly scientists) are not included. A deeper understanding of Great Quotations that Shaped the Western World... Great Quotations was compiled by a conservative businessman, a "man in the arena" whose experience in evaluating national economies helps him to identify the cultural precepts that sustain liberty, freedom, democracy, and capitalism. Also, the author covers supply-side economics and the practice of management—things that increased America's standard of living by over a factor of ten in the past century! Serious students—high school to post-graduate—and those who want to have an overview of western history and those who want a competitive edge should read Great Quotations That Shaped the Western World. Reading ten pages daily completes it easily in a summer. At summer's end, readers can stand on the shoulders of giants when they write or speak. Dr. Johnson said, "Classical quotation is the parole of literate men the world over." And, if you quote, people know you are well-read.
Author: Fred R. Shapiro Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300262787 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 1164
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A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book —named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal “Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition) “A quotations book with footnotes that are as fascinating to read as the quotes themselves.”—Arthur Spiegelman, Washington Post Book World (on the original edition) Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects of human activity. Contemporaries added to this edition include Beyoncé, Sandra Cisneros, James Comey, Drake, Louise Glück, LeBron James, Brett Kavanaugh, Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack Obama, John Oliver, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and David Foster Wallace. The volume also reflects path-breaking recent research resulting in the updating of quotations from the first edition with more accurate wording or attribution. It has also incorporated noncontemporary quotations that have become relevant to the present day. In addition, The New Yale Book of Quotations reveals the striking fact that women originated many familiar quotations, yet their roles have been forgotten and their verbal inventions have often been credited to prominent men instead. This book’s quotations, annotations, extensive cross-references, and large keyword index will satisfy both the reader who seeks specific information and the curious browser who appreciates an amble through entertaining pages.
Author: M. Prefontaine Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781517675172 Category : Languages : en Pages : 442
Book Description
The Big Book of Quotes is a collection of over 3,500 quotations from some of the greatest minds that ever existed. This is a book which you can just pick up anytime and carry on where you left off last time. It is for those who want to pep up a speech, a presentation or an email and for those who just want to jump start their brains with thought provoking or amusing quotations. The essence of the best quotes are that they express a truth or an insight in a short and often amusing way. Thoughts expressed succinctly have tremendous power. They can inspire and motivate, they can get a message across and they can provide insight. I hope this book will prove useful, amusing and the quotes will resonate with you.
Author: Times Uk Publisher: Times Books ISBN: 9780008313616 Category : Quotations, English Languages : en Pages : 320
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Discover the wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi alongside the wit of Groucho Marx in a collection of the greatest and most memorable quotations from across the centuries: an entertaining compendium of themed quotes from the greatest minds, orators, celebrities, writers and politicians that ever lived. Funny and profound, there are gems here for everyone.
Author: Paul Dickson Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061260606 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 674
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Baseball has always had its share of colorful characters, and over the years they have expressed themselves in eminently quotable ways. In this treasury of more than 5,000 quotations, noted baseball writer and observer Paul Dickson has captured the flavor of the game, in the words of its most important participants and onlookers. They are all here—from Aaron (Estella, Hank's mother) to Zoldack ("Sad Sack" Sam), and everyone in between. From the players, sportswriters, and politicians, to noted personalities in other fields (a very diverse group), everyone has his or her say on our nation's pastime. Dickson skillfully selects and annotates each remark, presenting the good, the bad, and the ugly of baseball lore. Included are extended lessons in Stengelese, Reggiespeak, Earl Weaverisms, and famous announcers' home run calls (who can forget Mel Allen's classic "Going, going, gone!"?). These and thousands of other cheerful, pithy, and memorable voices from the past through the present day are all captured in Baseball's Greatest Quotations.
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