language

"After tasting the meat pies, Samantha said she liked Mr Dewhurst’s beef in ale; although she preferred his tongue in cider."

"I dont want to be compared to Britney, Ashlee, Hilary or Lindsay. I want to be compared to me."

"Tell the House of Lords to go to hell."

"I swear I have never told a player to attack another player. In fact, I have told my players if they ever hear me saying something like this, they can break a stick over my skull. I ask only that they…"

"Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good..."

"And whilst the lizard’s having a kip, the scorpion says, ‘Tell ya what: I’ll do you a little deal…’"

"What you're saying is 'Has a historian the right to offend?' and the answer is very definitely, yes."

"There had been hoboes in the United States since there had been trains and liquor, which is to say, always."

"I am the first to jump up and say that I am a proud Samoan."

"All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence."

"Essays by Gail Hamilton at Quotidiana.org"

"He who speaks first, loses."

"Robertspiere , Robertspiere alone in vain raised his voice against the perfidious decree regarding superior conscripts, but his voice was muffled."

"Adela’s outstretched slipper shook slightly and shone like a snake’s tongue."

"The format of the nightly newscasts is still very much 1981 — "Tremble, onlookers! I am the anchorman and now here is a miracle: a report by satellite from many thousands of miles away. I will return …"

"It's going to a lot harder to kill an animal that's able to speak its name."

"Saying and doing are two things."

"I must be permitted to say that I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as…"

"“He is a lesser figure than X”—how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse."

"Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it."