Most Notable Quotations of 2008

[Wilson Gray]

What about the caption oof a New Yorker carton: "Black is the new black."

-Wilson

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain



On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> I can see Russia from my house.
>> Tina Fey, satirizing Sarah Palin
>
> (That's my personal favorite. So dead-on a satirization that the line
> is now commonly attributed to Palin herself.)
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>> [Sarah Palin] is not any smarter than I am and that's not nearly smart enough.
>> Tina Fey on Letterman show
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> Not to overload the list with Feyisms, but what about "Bitch is the new black"?
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>> I drink your milkshake.
>> There Will Be Blood
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> Technically from 2007, though the film's 12/26/07 release date
> justifies a 2008 popularization.
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>
> --Ben
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