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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Third Edition
Edited by Elizabeth Knowles
496 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-920895-1
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Hardback
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23 August 2007
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- Comprehensive: key quotations of today underpinned by landmark voices of the past in 5,000+ quotations, 1900-2007
- Informative and entertaining: from the deeply serious to the frivolous and surreal
- New authors include Pamela Anderson, Kemal Ataturk, Pope Benedict XVI, David Cameron, Paula Ratcliffe, and Oprah Winfrey
- New unique selection process: quotes identified by the largest ongoing language research programme in the world, Oxford English Corpus, ensuring that all the most popular and widely-used quotes are featured
- Easy-to-use keyword index traces quotations even if you don't know the author
This new collection offers a vivid picture of the world in the 21st century, against a backdrop of the landmark events leading up to it. From Catherine Tate and the Simpsons to Mother Teresa and Winston Churchill, Modern Quotations charts the ebbs and flows of popular culture as well as marking the key voices and watersheds for our time. An authoritative look-up reference, and an enjoyable source for browsing: the perfect gift.
New quotations include:
'You tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.' [Homer Simpson] Matt Groening
'I ain't a
communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.' Woody Guthrie
'I don't eat anything with a face.' Linda McCartney
'Never stop because you are afraid -- you are never so likely to be wrong.' Fridtjof Nansen
'I watch where the cosmetics industry is going and then walk in the opposite direction.' Anita Roddick
'I wish I had invented blue jeans.' Yves Saint Laurent
'Fame vaporizes, money goes with the wind, and all that's left is character.' O. J. SimpsonReadership: Writers, speakers, students, journalists, and general readers.
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Edited by Elizabeth Knowles, Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations; Publishing Manager, OUP Quotations Dictionaries Elizabeth Knowles is Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (6/e, 2004) and What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations (2006).
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"Addictive reading." - Simon Maxwell Apter, Times Literary Supplement
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Introduction
How to Use this Dictionary
Main Dictionary
Thematic index
Keyword index
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