#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $400: "It's more fun to be a pirate than join the navy", said this Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $800: "He prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast" is quoted from this Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1200: "Stay on the scene like a sex machine" is a lyrical quote from this performer James Brown |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1600: Under anonymous is listed the helpful typing pangram "The quick brown fox..." these 5 words jumps over the lazy dog |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $2000: "Hail to you gods... on that day of the great reckoning, behold me, I have come to you" is from this Ancient Egyptian text the Book of the Dead |
#7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $400: He wrote Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, "You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out" Buffett |
#7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $800: This comedian has 2 quotes in Bartlett's, both catchphrases: "Can we talk?" & "Who knew?" Joan Rivers |
#7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1600: This "wish"ful line from "Brokeback Mountain" is Annie Proulx' entry in Bartlett's "I wish I knew how to quit you" |
#7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1798 he told his men, "From the summit of yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you" Napoleon |
#7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $2000: Bartlett's quotes this author:
"Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday" Albert Camus |
#6979, aired 2015-01-08 | THAT'S NO LADY $200: Joyce Kilmer has 2 entries in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", both from this poem "Trees" |
#5854, aired 2010-02-11 | "UO" ME! $2000: Do not deny him or refuse his name, it's John Bartlett's "familiar" specialty quotations |
#4942, aired 2006-02-21 | P.T. BARNUM $400: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has one quote attributed to Barnum--this one about gullible people "There's a sucker born every minute" |
#4513, aired 2004-03-31 | QUOTATIONS $800: In "Bartlett's", Daniel Webster's "I still live" is listed as these his last words |
#3834, aired 2001-04-12 | AND I QUOTE $200: Type of quotations in the title of "Bartlett's" Familiar |
#3254, aired 1998-10-29 | THE LAST MAN $300: In "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", he's paired with Michael Jackson for writing "We Are The World" Lionel Richie |
#3245, aired 1998-10-16 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $200: "Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant" Cary Grant |
#3245, aired 1998-10-16 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $400: "It ain't over till it's over" Yogi Berra |
#3245, aired 1998-10-16 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $800: "My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat" Will Rogers |
#3245, aired 1998-10-16 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1000: "Between 2 evils, I always pick the one I've never tried before" Mae West |
#3245, aired 1998-10-16 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1,700 (Daily Double): "You furnish the pictures & I'll furnish the war" William Randolph Hearst |
#1879, aired 1992-11-05 | "GUY"s $100: It's the only quote in Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations" attributed to Leo Durocher "Nice guys finish last" |
#1578, aired 1991-06-12 | LITERARY TRIVIA $800: "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" calls this R. Chandler title "a synonym for death" The Big Sleep |
#1185, aired 1989-10-27 | NONFICTION $300: Justin Kaplan is editing a 16th edition of this book of familiar quotations which is due out in 1992 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
#811, aired 1988-02-29 | GOOD "GUY"s $800: Words which earned Leo Durocher his place in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Nice guy finish last |