[Ads-l] Desperate Last Plea for Most Notable Quotations of 2014

James Callan scarequotes at GMAIL.COM
Tue Nov 18 22:18:06 UTC 2014


>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > It's November 11 and I still don't have 10 quotations that I consider to
> be
> >  suitable for my annual list, run by the Associated Press, of the top 10
> most
> > notable quotations of the year.  By notable I mean important
> >  or famous or particularly revealing of the spirit of our times
> >  rather than necessarily being eloquent or admirable.  So I am renewing
> my
> > plea for suggestions of notable quotations from 2014, particularly ones
> from
> > politics or popular culture or entertainment or sports or business or
> > technology.


Matthew McConaughey: “All right all right all right,” really quoting
himself in his Oscar speech.

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