The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and WhenSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007 M04 1 - 416 pages Our language is full of hundreds of quotations that are often cited but seldom confirmed. Ralph Keyes's The Quote Verifier considers not only classic misquotes such as "Nice guys finish last," and "Play it again, Sam," but more surprising ones such as "Ain't I a woman?" and "Golf is a good walk spoiled," as well as the origins of popular sayings such as "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings," "No one washes a rented car," and "Make my day." |
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... play here. Corporate executives commonly credit motivational speaker Steven Covey with saying, “No one washes a rented car.” Members of the chattering class, on the other hand, such as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, attribute ...
... play this here game?” After reporters gave the manager a hand with his grammar, “Can't anybody here play this game?” became one of Stengel's most famous lines. Cleaning up diction while preserving meaning is a service to reader and ...
... play by Wallace Sayre. “Half the money I spend on ADVERTISING is wasted. The trouble is I don't know which half.” In the United States this business truism is most often attributed to department store magnate John Wanamaker (1838–1922) ...
... player Yogi Berra. Twain did once observe, “It isn't so astonishing the things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so,” but biographer Albert Bigelow Paine said he was paraphrasing a remark by ...
... played by Garbo says, “But I wish to be alone.” In time that sentiment was attributed to the reclusive actress herself. Garbo was not happy about this at all. She once told a friend, “I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I ...