Betsy’s Page Better Check Those Quotes As commencement speeches are heard across the land, speakers are reaching for their inner Bartlett’s. Unfortunately, some of these speakers need to do a little more fact checking before they insert quotes into their speeches. At Boston University last Sunday, for instance, Les Moonves, the president of CBS, quoted …
American Dialect Society
American Dialect Society My praise of The Quote Verifier [yesterday] was too restrained … Really an outstanding book. Fred Shapiro, Editor, Yale Book of Quotations
Murder your darlings
The Peace Corps Writer There is a new and wonderful book for writers written by a good friend who is NOT an RPCV (even though my wife is convinced I don’t know anyone who wasn’t in the Peace Corps). His name is Ralph Keyes. The book is entitled, The Quote Verifier and it explores several …
WHO SAID THAT ABOUT GOD?
Bill’s ‘Faith Matters’ Weblog Bill Tammeus WHO SAID THAT ABOUT GOD? All of us can toss around quotes about religion — and sometimes we’re even sure of the original source. A year or two ago, for instance, I wrote a column mentioning the results of a national survey that showed the most well-known and commonly …
Thoughts on the Business of Quotes
Forbes Karl Shmavonian The editor of Forbes’s venerable quotes page reflects on the hazards of his profession. “Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.” –Hesketh Pearson. Those words are soothing balm for the not-so-learned editor of …
Whose quote is it anyway?
Galveston Country Daily News (Texas) By Cathy Gillentine I got a new book at the Boston convention that I am just now getting around to looking at. It was worth the wait. It’s called, “The Quote Verifier,” by Ralph Keyes, and it helps straighten out a lot of quotes we always are hearing, letting us …