I am a registered nurse who also enjoys writing poetry and giving enjoyment to other people with laughter through words. If I can change one person's day to laughter, I have made a difference.
From politics to religion. From adversity to trust and truth. From the deadly serious to the seriously humorous, you'll read quotes comfortably familiar and refreshingly new. This book is ideal for: anyone with a passion for trivia—and not enough time to read a book a week a speaker, preacher, teacher, lecturer, presenter, or writer—to add spice to his work a quote enthusiast Arranged alphabetically by topic. Includes an index of authors. All to help you find a new quote or the one you've been searching for.
It was quite a task deciding on a title for this no sense, nonsense, makes no sense compiled literature over the past years. I decided on this simple title. Because of my attraction to quotations, to quips, witticisms; ad lib one liners, etc. Whatever was said or by circumstance read I stored them in the back of my mind. I jotted them down on whatever napkin, receipt or piece of paper that was handy. This came about during social conversations with friends, relatives, celebrities, politicians, whomever. Some are mere questions, some are in fact excerpts from my first book. “I don’t understand.” Credit was given to those I could. Not being aware of their “Off the Cuff” statements they bounced off my head as being funny, impactful, noteworthy, stupid or tone fully intellectual. I modified, twisted or extended most of them to my mindset as I was writing. For the most part all are my original quotes/writings and poems. If I were a baker I would describe my book as: 1 cup of wisdom 1⁄2 cup of knowledge 1 ounce of thought 1 pinch of reason 1 grain of stupidity or an “Downside Up Cake” BEWARE: Decipher book’s Littter-8-chewer carefully!!!! “A sam hamich and a coff a cupee”! Pick me up, put me down, pick me up, read me over and over again.
If you are some times lost for something to say this book will help.Check out all the witticism, oneliners and humor and I am sure that you will agree that this book is for your libery. It will also be a welcome gift.
Test your quote IQ! Who said this? “I think, therefore I am.” A. Marcus Aurelius B. Gautama Buddha C. René Descartes D. Nicolas Cage With hundreds of witticisms, musings, disses, words of inspiration, and canny observations, all wrapped up in the form of an addictive game with different ways to play, Who Said That? Is the most fun you can have while actually getting smarter. Or to put it another way, where else would you find Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa, Jay-Z, Bill Clinton, Patti Smith, Charlie Brown, Muhammad Ali, Lena Dunham, Joan Didion, Oprah Winfrey, and Henry David Thoreau all hanging out together? Answer: C
Who Said That? provides an entertaining and authoritative reference for the origins and meanings of our common figures of speech. Who said 100+ famous expressions? Who really said them? What did they actually say? What did they actually mean? Why did they say them that way? Who repeated what was said? Surprisingly true, sometimes strange, always fascinating, the stories about whence came these expressions will entertain, educate, and even amaze you.
Believe it or not, this is probably the first book to attempt to identify the original sources of some of the English language's most common expressions. We might think we know who first said famous for fifteen minutes, annus horribilis, the cold war and let them eat cake. It's a no brainer, you might say, but Max Cryer has a surprise or two in ...
Even the dead can die. Charles Manson. Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dahmer. Known for their cunning and savagery. In the late eighties, another infamous serial killer sent seventeen innocent people to early graves. Then, suddenly, the murders in the panicked city of Portland, Oregon, stopped—and the Goodbye Killer got away. Myron Vale remembers it well. Long before a fateful bullet cursed him with the ability to see ghosts, he was the young son of the city’s most esteemed detective. The case changed Hank Vale, haunting him with a single glimpse of the killer’s otherworldly face. He was never the same man again. Or the same father. Now a new victim points to the Goodbye Killer’s return. And when the most powerful forces on the other side of the great divide approach Myron desperate for help, he uncovers a terrifying truth. It’s not just the living who should fear for their immortal souls ... even the dead can die.