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Author : Nigel Rees
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780304351923
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Cassell Companion to Quotations written by Nigel Rees and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated guide to quotations.
Author : Rees
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 9788888815190
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Cassell Companion to Quotations written by Rees and published by Orion. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred R. Shapiro
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030020597X
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The New Yale Book of Quotations written by Fred R. Shapiro and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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) “The most accurate, thorough, and up-to-date quotation book ever compiled.”—Bryan A. Garner, Los Angeles Review of Books 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 : Ralph Keyes
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429906170
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Quote Verifier written by Ralph Keyes and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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." Keyes's in-depth research routinely confounds widespread assumptions about who said what, where, and when. Organized in easy-to-access dictionary form, The Quote Verifier also contains special sections highlighting commonly misquoted people and genres, such as Yogi Berra and Oscar Wilde, famous last words, and misremembered movie lines. An invaluable resource for not just those with a professional need to quote accurately, but anyone at all who is interested in the roots of words and phrases, The Quote Verifier is not only a fascinating piece of literary sleuthing, but also a great read.
Author : Cassell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780304349265
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Cynical Quotations written by Cassell and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Gurney Benham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Cassell's Book of Quotations Proverbs and Household Words written by William Gurney Benham and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willis Goth Regier
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803217528
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Quotology written by Willis Goth Regier and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erasmus advised readers to learn quotations by heart and copy them everywhere: write them in the front and back of books; inscribe them on rings and cups; paint them on doors and walls, ?even on the glass of a window.? Emerson noted that ?in Europe, every church is a kind of book or bible, so covered is it with inscriptions and pictures.? In Arabic script as tall as a man, the Koran is quoted on the walls and domes of mosques. ø We quote to admire, provoke, commemorate, dispute, play, and inspire. Quotations signal class, club, clique, and alma mater. They animate wit, relay prophecies, guide meditation, and accessorize fashion. ø In Quotology Willis Goth Regier draws on world literature and contemporary events to show how vital quotations are, how they are collected and organized, and how deceptive they can be. He probes all these aspects, identifying fifty-nine types of quotations, including misquotations and anonymous sayings. Following the logic of quotology, Quotology concludes with famous last words.
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Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402711596
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (115 download)
Download or read book The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes written by and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words to comfort, amuse, enlighten, and above all, inspire: more than 485 pages of diverse quotations offer tasty food for thought.
Author : Elizabeth Knowles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191079359
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book 'And I quote...' written by Elizabeth Knowles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quotations are an essential part of the fabric of the language. In And I quote, Elizabeth Knowles draws on her experience editing the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and employs a wide repertoire of examples, ranging from the classical canon to contemporary popular culture, to illuminate just how and why we quote. Her investigation focuses on how we find, choose, and use quotations in 21st century English, but it also leads her back in time to follow the journeys taken by individual quotes, as their meaning changes subtly - and sometimes not so subtly - over the decades and in many cases the centuries. In following the often-surprising stories of individual quotations, we gain an understanding of how they establish themselves, and to what degree they can develop a life independent of their original coinage. Everyone has their own quotations 'vocabulary', and each reader of the book will think of further items that they would use and wish to explore, but the journeys mapped here illuminate the many fascinating ways in which quotations have embedded themselves in the language, from the earliest dictionaries of quotations to the online world we experience today.
Author : Elizabeth Knowles
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191500542
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations written by Elizabeth Knowles and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the money Fresh fields and pastures new A good day to bury bad news If the glove doesn't fit you must acquit Brings together a fascinating range of wrongly remembered sayings, popular summaries of original thoughts, and apocryphal or unverifiable comments attributed to a particular person. By revealing what was (and was not) really said, this book celebrates the colour and inventiveness of language change.
Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780304366361
Total Pages : 1600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Cassell's Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025304037X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book "Right Makes Might" written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A powerful and timely addition to the literature of rhetoric and folklore.” —Choice In 1860, Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb Right makes might—opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right—in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the fourteenth century phrase had taken on new ethical and democratic connotations in the nineteenth century. In this collection, famed scholar of proverbs Wolfgang Mieder explores the multifaceted use and function of proverbs through the history of the United States, from their early beginnings up through their use by such modern-day politicians as Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. Building on previous publications and unpublished research, Mieder explores sociopolitical aspects of the American worldview as expressed through the use of proverbs in politics, women’s rights, and the civil rights movement—and by looking at the use of proverbial phrases, Mieder demonstrates how one traditional phrase can take on numerous expressive roles over time, and how they continue to play a key role in our contemporary moment.
Author : A. K. Adams
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cassell's Book of Humorous Quotations written by A. K. Adams and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1969 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A documented record of humor from ancient times to the present.
Author : Nick Rennison
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752499963
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The London Blue Plaque Guide: Fifth Edition written by Nick Rennison and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting people with places, London’s distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in our history and culture have lived and worked. From Richard Burton to Karl Marx, Marie Stopes to Jimi Hendrix, this fully updated 4th edition of The London Blue Plaque Guide has over 900 entries and provides an essential companion to the famous people who have made their homes in the city. It includes updated maps and a useful list of names by profession as well as location. As the definitive guide to the fascinating historical figures who have lived in London, it will be invaluable to residents and tourists alike.
Author : Phil Mason
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849542406
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book One in the Eye for Harold written by Phil Mason and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem with history is that much of what you learn in school simply isn't true! For instance, King Harold was NOT shot in the eye with an arrow at the Battle of Hastings, Neanderthals were not as dumb as you'd think, Britain had an Indian curry restaurant years before it had fish-and-chip shops and the American 'Wild West' really wasn't that wild. In many ways the history we casually accept as truth is full of mistakes. One in the Eye for Harold is a riotous romp through the centuries with revelations about the untruth of large swathes of history. It shows us how fictions have coloured our views of religion, politics, war and society - and shows us how some of our most solidly held beliefs are entirely false. In One in the Eye for Harold Phil Mason - author of Napoleon's Haemorrhoids - catalogues how myth and error have shaped our view of the past, and how the history our teachers handed down is often far from the mark. It is full of remarkable insights that entertain gloriously as they challenge the conventional view of history.
Author : R. Michael Stewart
Publisher : Unistar Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Research for Writers written by R. Michael Stewart and published by Unistar Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Bosher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 185539636X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Leading the Leaders for the Future written by Michael Bosher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will address the leadership challenge of creating an environment for the development needs of 21st century students. These students need to be globally aware, flexible in approach, and to develop transferable, multi-skills across a wide spectrum of employment opportunities. They also need to be numerate, have highly defined social and communication skills and have an Information and Communication Technology skill base embedded within all that they do. In order to create the appropriate learning environment, every organisation must address as a first priority the way it is led. Schools must second guess needs for the future and put robust structures in place to facilitate those needs. This book will show how such a culture change is possible, note the barriers encountered and the successes achieved, both within schools and other organisations. Schools are one member of a group partnership with parents, employers, society and the students themselves - all of whom are charged with making this change happen. For this reason, the book looks at a number of business organisations to see what leadership lessons can be learned by both sides in this process of transformation.
