History Quotes / DelusionsOfEloquence

-->--'''Robin Thicke''', "Black Tar Cloud"

->''"'Inbreathiate.' It's not a word. [...] It's not a real word. It kind of sounds like one, but it's just entirely made up. Now 'reclamation,' now, well, that... that ''is'' a word, but it’s the ''wrong'' word. [...] This entire day, [...] a veritable minefield of malapropisms [...] and factual errors."''
-->-- '''Benoit Blanc''', ''Film/GlassOnion''

->''"'Inbreathiate.' It's not a word. [...] It's not a real word. It kind of sounds like one, but it's just entirely made up. Now "reclamation," now, well, that... that ''is'' a word, but it’s the ''wrong'' word. [...] This entire day, [...] a veritable minefield of malapropisms [...] and factual errors."''

-->--'''Wheatley''', ''VideoGame/Portal2}''

-->--'''Wheatley''', ''{{VideoGame/Portal2}} ''

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->''Mentally he was already reading the lines of the two thousand newspapers served by the two hundred correspondents. "As we entered the room the Black Shirt Dictator did not look up from the book he was reading, so intense was his concentration, etc." I tip-toed over behind him to see what the book was that he was reading with such avid interest. It was a French-English dictionary—held upside down.''
-->--'''Creator/ErnestHemingway''' on attending a press conference by UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini

->''When he met me, he whined, "How does it feel to be an [[EnfantTerrible on-font-tarribull]]?"''
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''' on Creator/TrumanCapote, ''Palimpsest''

->"The gamut of my career will run in all facets as I progress."
-->--'''David Boreanaz''', thespian

->''Friedman should only be ingested in column-sized doses; levels of Friedman beyond that are [[SuckinessIsPainful potentially fatal]]. His books tend to be a melange of the latest buzzwords, orgasms over the [[ConspicuousConsumption newest office tech toys]], and a whole bunch of [[{{Metaphorgotten}} metaphors and similes]] that pile up to incredibly asinine heights of literary incompetence. Should you somehow feel the need to read a Friedman book, make sure it comes with a translation device.''
-->--'''''Rational Wiki''''' on columnist Thomas Friedman

->''Those of us who have read any of Jaden Smith’s interviews or tweets know that his words and thoughts are otherworldly star beams that lift our consciousness above the universe where it dances with the breaths of aliens to the sound of humming UFO engines. (I know, I should switch my weed strain or stop reading Jaden Smith quotes.) If a short Jaden Smith interview can do that to a person, imagine what an entire book of his thoughts will be able to do. Amazon will soon stop carrying the works of Plato, Nietzsche and Confucius, because [[Creator/WillSmith Will]] and Jada Pinkett Smith’s child is apparently writing a philosophy book and it will become the only philosophy book this world needs.''
-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2015/12/02/prepare-to-be-fully-enlightened-jaden-smith-is-writing-a-philosophy-book/ Micheal K.]]''', "Prepare to Be Enlightened"

->''Those who dismiss Chester '[[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Chet Haze]]' Hanks as a lightweight merely because he is the hilariously un-self-aware rapping son of Hollywood legend Creator/TomHanks risk making fools of themselves. Chet Haze is a theological thinker of uncommon zeal...We mourn the death of Creator/ChristopherHitchens for many reasons--the strongest of which is that he escaped being eviscerated by the rhetorical razor of Chet Haze, a fate he most richly deserved.''
-->--'''''Gawker''''', [[http://gawker.com/chet-haze-theologian-1495682864 "Chet Haze, Theologian"]]

->''Here's a challenge. Tell me what this sentence, from White's review of the new version of ''Film/TheTakingOfPelham123'', means: "''Audiences who enjoyed the original 1974 ''Pelham 123'' took its grungy dangerousness as a realistic confirmation of their own citizens' distrust.''" Now here's the rub: I don't want to know what you think it means, what you infer it means when you put it through your own personal White decoder ring, no; I want to know what the words in the sentence as they are actually written actually mean. As, you know, an actual copy editor would understand them. Because an actual copy editor would tell you that the sentence is gibberish.''
-->--'''Glenn Kenny''' on film critic Armond White, [[http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2009/08/we-went-to-white-castle-and-we-got-thrown-out.html "We Came to White Castle and We Got Thrown Out"]]

->"These five passages have not been picked out because they are especially bad — I could have quoted far worse if I had chosen — but because they illustrate various of the mental vices from which we now suffer. They are a little below the average, but are fairly representative examples. I number them so that I can refer back to them when necessary:

->"1. I am not, indeed, sure whether it is not true to say that the Milton who once seemed not unlike a seventeenth-century Shelley had not become, out of an experience ever more bitter in each year, more alien ''[sic]'' to the founder of that Jesuit sect which nothing could induce him to tolerate.

->--''Professor Harold Laski (Essay in Freedom of Expression)''

->"2. Above all, we cannot play ducks and drakes with a native battery of idioms which prescribes egregious collocations of vocables as the Basic ''put up with'' for ''tolerate'', or ''put at a loss'' for ''bewilder''.

->--''Professor Lancelot Hogben (Interglossia)''

->"3. On the one side we have the free personality: by definition it is not neurotic, for it has neither conflict nor dream. Its desires, such as they are, are transparent, for they are just what institutional approval keeps in the forefront of consciousness; another institutional pattern would alter their number and intensity; there is little in them that is natural, irreducible, or culturally dangerous. But ''on the other side'', the social bond itself is nothing but the mutual reflection of these self-secure integrities. Recall the definition of love. Is not this the very picture of a small academic? Where is there a place in this hall of mirrors for either personality or fraternity?

->--''Essay on psychology in Politics (New York)''

->"4. All the ‘best people’ from the gentlemen's clubs, and all the frantic fascist captains, united in common hatred of Socialism and bestial horror at the rising tide of the mass revolutionary movement, have turned to acts of provocation, to foul incendiarism, to medieval legends of poisoned wells, to legalize their own destruction of proletarian organizations, and rouse the agitated petty-bourgeoise to chauvinistic fervor on behalf of the fight against the revolutionary way out of the crisis.

->--''Communist pamphlet''

->"5. If a new spirit is to be infused into this old country, there is one thorny and contentious reform which must be tackled, and that is the humanization and galvanization of the B.B.C. Timidity here will bespeak canker and atrophy of the soul. The heart of Britain may be sound and of strong beat, for instance, but the British lion's roar at present is like that of Bottom in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream — as gentle as any sucking dove. A virile new Britain cannot continue indefinitely to be traduced in the eyes or rather ears, of the world by the effete languors of Langham Place, brazenly masquerading as ‘standard English’. When the Voice of Britain is heard at nine o'clock, better far and infinitely less ludicrous to hear aitches honestly dropped than the present priggish, inflated, inhibited, school-ma'amish arch braying of blameless bashful mewing maidens!

->--''Letter in Tribune''"

-->--'''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', ''[[https://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit Politics and the English Language]]"

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-->--'''''Wiki/RationalWiki''''' on columnist Thomas Friedman