On March 25, 1932, the classic film Tarzan the Ape Man, starring former Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan, premiered in New York City. The famous movie misquote associated with…
“I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
I’m a big fan of the Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel The Godfather and the movie that was made from it in 1972. I am also a big fan of vintage…
The story behind “Comin’ in on a wing and a prayer”
The idiomatic expression “on a wing and a prayer” is a now widely used to describe doing something under extremely difficult or disadvantageous circumstances and hoping that sheer luck, determination and/or…
“Only God can make a tree.” But Joyce Kilmer’s poem inspired many people to plant and preserve them…
On a chilly winter afternoon in 1913, at his home in New Jersey, poet Joyce Kilmer jotted down the first two lines of a new poem in his notebook, along…
“The business of America is business” – a famously unfair misquote…
When President Warren G. Harding died from a heart-related problem in 1923, Vice President Calvin Coolidge became the 30th President of the United States. The following year, with his popularity…
10 famous quotes and phrases linked to the date January 10
1. and 2. “The die is cast.” and “cross the Rubicon” “The die is cast” was Julius Caesar’s famous remark on January 10, 49 B.C. as he led his troops…
“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”
There’s a famous quotation about atheists associated with the date December 14 that is widely attributed to Bishop Fulton J. Sheen: “An atheist is a man who has no…
“I am not a crook!”
In retrospect, it’s ironic that one of the slogans used by Richard M. Nixon during his first presidential campaign in 1968 was: “The ‘I’ in Nixon stands for integrity.” Today,…
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…”
Three years after Jack Kerouac coined the term “The Beat Generation” a group of Beat poets gathered at the Six Gallery on Fillmore Street in San Francisco for a poetry…
“Life is like a box of chocolates” – the misquote that launched a thousand variations…
Here’s another “Guest Post” from my QuoteCounterquote.com blog… THE FAMOUS MOVIE QUOTE: “My mama always said, life was like a box a chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”…