“I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.” ThinkingSaidI CanBehindsAirSceneInstanceBehind The Scenes Author:Keith Olbermann
“It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.” SaidPastHalfClearCuttingWrittenProductionsFollowingDecadesInstanceTragicCommodityVocabularyClear CuttingSpoken English Book:Epicurean Simplicity Source: Epicurean Simplicity
“The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.” WorldSaidHelpingStoriesImpossibleIncreaseAbsurdInstanceCurrencyScandalPiousMaliciousAustinImprobability Book:The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself Source: The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself
“When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that what I had said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deviated from the truth in the matter, and as I supposed was admitted by himself.” SaidMatterFailingConversationAffairInstanceDirtyNastyFilthyPolygamyJoseph Smith Author:Oliver Cowdery