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textbook on judgment. I might make one or two other [mistakes], but it will certainly be with great forethought.
Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.
On Jumping the Gun:
I am in control here. As of now, I am in control here in the White House.
Alexander Haig, then Secretary of State, after President Reagan was shot, forgetting that in actuality he was fourth in line of succession
On Justice:
If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
then Attorney General Edwin Meese explaining to the American Bar Association why the Miranda decision enabling those arrested to be advised of their rights was not necessary anymore
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On Keeping Quiet at Meetings:
A little less quiet, please, Mr. Blackbird.
New York Athletic Commissioner General John J. Phelan, to boxer Joe Louis’s trainer, “Chappie” Blackburn
On Kiddie Shows, Great Lines from:
I want you to take your balls in your hands and bounce them on the floor and then throw them as high as you can. Now, have you all got your balls in your hands?
announcer of children’s radio show “Life with Mother,” to her little audience, as reported by Geoffrey Moorhouse
On Killing, Putting an End to:
WISH—TO END ALL THE KILLING IN THE WORLD HOBBIES—HUNTING AND FISHING
from personal statistics of California Angel Bryan Harvey, flashed on the scoreboard at Anaheim Stadium, 1989
On Knee Surgery:
I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward
On Knowledge:
The President is aware of what is going on. That’s not to say there is something going on.
Ron Ziegler, press secretary to President Richard Nixon, on a rumor that allied forces were attacking across the Laotian border
On Knowledge:
Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They’ve been ex-teammates for years now.
Jerry Coleman, San Diego Padres announcer
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On Ladies, Fat, and Dutch Queens:
[The commotion] has something to do with a fat lady.
Dizzy Dean, baseball great turned sports announcer, explaining why there was a hubbub in the stands during a St. Louis Browns game he was covering
I’ve just been informed that the fat lady is the Queen of Holland.
Dizzy Dean, on air a few minutes later, after a studio executive quietly told him that the “fat lady” was actually the Queen of the Netherlands
On Language:
I’m no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language there isn’t even a word for freedom.
President Ronald Reagan on why Russia was still—and presumably always would be—Communist, overlooking the word svoboda, or freedom
On Language and Meaning:
A written sign is proffered in the absence of the receiver. How to style this absence? One could say that at the moment when I am writing, the receiver may be absent from my field of present perception. But is not this absence merely a distant presence, one which is delayed or which, in one form or another, is idealized in its representation? This does not seem to be the case, or at least in this distance, divergence, delay, this deferral must be capable of being carried to a certain absoluteness of absence if the structure of writing, assuming that writing exists, is to constitute itself. It is at that point that the difference as writing could no longer [be] an [ontological] modification of presence.
Jacques Derrida, French deconstructionist, “Signature Event Context,”
Limited Inc.
On Languages:
Every monumental inscription should be in Latin; for that being a dead language it will ever live.
Samuel Johnson, eighteenth-century English writer, in a blunder noted by his contemporaries
On the Law, Great Rhetoric on:
There has been much talk here this afternoon about the law of the land. We are makers of the law of the land and makers of the law of the land ought to understand and respect the law of the land.
Senator Roger W. Jepsen, Republican from Iowa, during a congressional debate
On Leader, Following
Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.
On Jumping the Gun:
I am in control here. As of now, I am in control here in the White House.
Alexander Haig, then Secretary of State, after President Reagan was shot, forgetting that in actuality he was fourth in line of succession
On Justice:
If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
then Attorney General Edwin Meese explaining to the American Bar Association why the Miranda decision enabling those arrested to be advised of their rights was not necessary anymore
K
On Keeping Quiet at Meetings:
A little less quiet, please, Mr. Blackbird.
New York Athletic Commissioner General John J. Phelan, to boxer Joe Louis’s trainer, “Chappie” Blackburn
On Kiddie Shows, Great Lines from:
I want you to take your balls in your hands and bounce them on the floor and then throw them as high as you can. Now, have you all got your balls in your hands?
announcer of children’s radio show “Life with Mother,” to her little audience, as reported by Geoffrey Moorhouse
On Killing, Putting an End to:
WISH—TO END ALL THE KILLING IN THE WORLD HOBBIES—HUNTING AND FISHING
from personal statistics of California Angel Bryan Harvey, flashed on the scoreboard at Anaheim Stadium, 1989
On Knee Surgery:
I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward
On Knowledge:
The President is aware of what is going on. That’s not to say there is something going on.
Ron Ziegler, press secretary to President Richard Nixon, on a rumor that allied forces were attacking across the Laotian border
On Knowledge:
Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They’ve been ex-teammates for years now.
Jerry Coleman, San Diego Padres announcer
L
On Ladies, Fat, and Dutch Queens:
[The commotion] has something to do with a fat lady.
Dizzy Dean, baseball great turned sports announcer, explaining why there was a hubbub in the stands during a St. Louis Browns game he was covering
I’ve just been informed that the fat lady is the Queen of Holland.
Dizzy Dean, on air a few minutes later, after a studio executive quietly told him that the “fat lady” was actually the Queen of the Netherlands
On Language:
I’m no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language there isn’t even a word for freedom.
President Ronald Reagan on why Russia was still—and presumably always would be—Communist, overlooking the word svoboda, or freedom
On Language and Meaning:
A written sign is proffered in the absence of the receiver. How to style this absence? One could say that at the moment when I am writing, the receiver may be absent from my field of present perception. But is not this absence merely a distant presence, one which is delayed or which, in one form or another, is idealized in its representation? This does not seem to be the case, or at least in this distance, divergence, delay, this deferral must be capable of being carried to a certain absoluteness of absence if the structure of writing, assuming that writing exists, is to constitute itself. It is at that point that the difference as writing could no longer [be] an [ontological] modification of presence.
Jacques Derrida, French deconstructionist, “Signature Event Context,”
Limited Inc.
On Languages:
Every monumental inscription should be in Latin; for that being a dead language it will ever live.
Samuel Johnson, eighteenth-century English writer, in a blunder noted by his contemporaries
On the Law, Great Rhetoric on:
There has been much talk here this afternoon about the law of the land. We are makers of the law of the land and makers of the law of the land ought to understand and respect the law of the land.
Senator Roger W. Jepsen, Republican from Iowa, during a congressional debate
On Leader, Following
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