“You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.”
Source: The Princess Bride
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Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
John Prescott (1938) Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007)
Referring to the slogan used by Michael Howard during the 2005 General Election campaign, as quoted in "Election 2005: Aggressive and voluble — but the real thing" by Oliver Burkeman, in The Guardian (21 April 2005), p. 6
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Victoria Beckham (1974) English businesswoman, fashion designer and singer
As quoted in Oh My Posh! Victoria Beckham's 10 Funniest Quotes http://www.people.com/people/gallery/0,,20360923_10,00.html#20769957, People (magazine)
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
2021, April 2021, Remarks by President Biden on the Shooting in Boulder, Colorado
“I’m sure that’s quite witty, but I have no idea what you mean.”
Charles E. Gannon (1960) American novelist
Source: Fire with Fire (2013), Chapter 12 (p. 156)
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
The Humanist interview (2012)
Context: I think most social justice movements take the words that are used against them and make them good words. That’s partly how “black” came back into usage. Before we said “colored person,” or “Negro.” Then came “Black Power,” “Black Pride,” and “Black Is Beautiful” to make it a good word.
"Witch" was another word I remember reclaiming in the 1970s. There was a group called Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (WITCH). They all went down to Wall Street and hexed it. And Wall Street fell five points the next day; it was quite amazing! “Queer” and “gay” are other examples. … I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them. Actually, I had done that earlier with “slut” because when I went back to Toledo, Ohio, which is where I was in high school and junior high school, I was on a radio show with a bunch of women. A man called up and called me “a slut from East Toledo,” which is doubly insulting because East Toledo is the wrong side of town. I thought, when I’d lived here I would have been devastated by this. But by this time I thought, you know, that’s a pretty good thing to be. I’m putting it on my tombstone: "Here lies the slut from East Toledo."
Jonathan Ive (1967) English designer and VP of Design at Apple
It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.
In an interview in Icon Magazine (July 2003)