Zing!
Every now and then, I come across a sentence or paragraph that is so excellent I want to remember it forever. I'm going to keep this post as a permanent repository of such linguistic triumphs.
"The manifest absurdity of it is too obvious to require explanation." -- Judge Melvin Welles, on the $65 million lawsuit over a pair of lost pants
"Maybe we should pass a law that every new book, movie, play, etc. must include the words 'Islamofascism delenda est,' preferably as an acrostic." -- Roy Edroso, on the Right's agony over the lack of pro-GWOT literature
"Needless to say, the memo is authentic." -- Glenn Greenwald, after a litany of right-wing bloggers' claims to the contrary
"On second thought, if you put [Jonah] Goldberg out in a meadow with a bell around his neck it would probably not alter his level of contentment." -- Roy Edroso
"This is the last I shall write of Lady Atlas, leaving her to languish in the obscurity in which I discovered her. Deprived of the attention she craves and the traffic I sent, she faces a future of irreversible diminishment until only a noisy dot will remain. I could have made her a star, but now she'll be reduced to playing custom auto shows and competing with Edy Williams on the red carpet. It's sad it had to come to this, but I have fancier fish to fry, and it's time to toss her back into eternal sea that swallows all." -- James Wolcott
"This document is totally non-redactable and non-segregable and cannot even be meaningfully described." -- Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Bondy on why a document that allegedly proves the government has been spying on Americans should, in his opinion (not mine), remain top secret
"The manifest absurdity of it is too obvious to require explanation." -- Judge Melvin Welles, on the $65 million lawsuit over a pair of lost pants
"Maybe we should pass a law that every new book, movie, play, etc. must include the words 'Islamofascism delenda est,' preferably as an acrostic." -- Roy Edroso, on the Right's agony over the lack of pro-GWOT literature
"Needless to say, the memo is authentic." -- Glenn Greenwald, after a litany of right-wing bloggers' claims to the contrary
"On second thought, if you put [Jonah] Goldberg out in a meadow with a bell around his neck it would probably not alter his level of contentment." -- Roy Edroso
"This is the last I shall write of Lady Atlas, leaving her to languish in the obscurity in which I discovered her. Deprived of the attention she craves and the traffic I sent, she faces a future of irreversible diminishment until only a noisy dot will remain. I could have made her a star, but now she'll be reduced to playing custom auto shows and competing with Edy Williams on the red carpet. It's sad it had to come to this, but I have fancier fish to fry, and it's time to toss her back into eternal sea that swallows all." -- James Wolcott
"This document is totally non-redactable and non-segregable and cannot even be meaningfully described." -- Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Bondy on why a document that allegedly proves the government has been spying on Americans should, in his opinion (not mine), remain top secret
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