Random House Webster's Quotationary - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0375719687 ISBN 13: 9780375719684

Casa editrice: Random House Reference &, 2001

Riassunto

The newest, most comprehensive collection to come along in decades, Random House Webster's Quotationary is now available as a trade paperback. This best-selling reference guide is an invaluable tool for speechwriters, students, and researchers alike, or a perfect gift for any wordsmith.

Includes:

· Over 20,000 quotations from the famous, infamous, and legendary
· Over 1,500 categories of quotations
· Easy to use: arranged by subject, with an extensive keyword index and cross-referencing

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Leonard Roy Frank has been compiling and organizing quotes, aphorisms, and observations for the past 12 years. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he has lived in San Francisco since 1959, where he managed an art gallery before devoting himself to collecting quotations. To date, his database contains more than 40,000 quotes.

Estratto. © Riproduzione autorizzata. Diritti riservati.:

Ted Turner on perfection:
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

R. Buckminster Fuller on technology:
How do we know that the people we meet are not computers programmed to simulate people?

Louis A. Safian on money:
There are more important things than money--the only trouble is they all cost money.

Emily Dickinson on love:
That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.

Casey Stengel on time:
There's a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

Charlotte Whitton on women:
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
Luckily, this is not difficult.
From the Hardcover edition.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Random House Reference &
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375719687
• ISBN 13: 9780375719684
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 1041
• Redattore: Frank Leonard Roy