“History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.”
Source: Something Rotten
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“History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVIII, p. 217
“The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam.”
As quoted by Jack Orr in My Greatest Day in Baseball, and Baseball's Greatest Quotations : An Illustrated Treasury (2008) by Paul Dickson, p. 302
Context: The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts — outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.
“I feel a bit like the mosquito at the nudist colony—I'm just not sure where to begin!”
"Does God Exist?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fzde_QN4fE&feature=youtu.be&t=19m40s — Dinesh D'Souza and Dan Barker debate at Prestonwood Christian Academy, Plano, TX (November 19, 2009)
Debates
Context: Dan has raised so many points... I feel a bit like the mosquito at the nudist colony—I'm just not sure where to begin!
“I fail to do
What I'm trying
I've been these walls
And everyone who dies
Hears other times”
In Rime
Lyrics, To Record Only Water for Ten Days (2000)
On her expressions in the scene where she asks "What are you looking at, Sir" and Hawkeye replies, "I'm looking at you, Miss."
Mohican Press interview (2005)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Source: Ronald Reagan (6 December 1983), cited by Paul Slansky, The Clothes Have No Emperor