Unca Harlan’s Art Deco Dining Pavilion rich ‘Cause I know how much you guys enjoy your quotations. Pick up a copy of The Quote Verifier, by Ralph Keyes. I just got wind of this through Kilpatrick’s column, and apparently Yogi Berra didn’t say a lot of things he’s supposed to have said, and Edmund Burke …
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Don't Get Caught Misquoting…
Don’t Get Caught Don’t Get Caught Misquoting… …as there’s an author ready to pounce. Ralph Keyes’new book, The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When, excerpted here in today’s Washington Post, looks at famous speakers and how they mangled quotes in speeches, sometimes to good effect. John F. Kennedy is the subject of the …
Better Check Those Quotes
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 …