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- "9W"
Answer to the question: Do you spell your name with a V, Mr. Vagner? - Steve Allen, from the Question Man segment on the Steve Allen Show
- Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.
- Eduard Hanslick
- The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.
- The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
- There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal
- The National, Paris, 1850
- Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I think it would be a good idea.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
- I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Who's Virginia?
- Rose Kennedy (1890 - 1995), when asked why her daughter-in-law Joan lived in Boston while her son Ted lived in Virginia
- Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
- Ralph Nader (1934 - ), The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
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