American hogs
This headline alone was worth it. Gianni Infantino: We're Just Here To Extract Wealth From You American Hogs
Posts tagged with "great-lines"
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Torment of precautions
Great line by Napoleon here. The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Burn it all down
This is a solid quote from a kid to an adult who helped her: In Ghana, there is a saying: A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. She paused. Said you made...
Fixing a problem you created
Banger from the Spanish Prime Minister. Sánchez to Trump: Spain won’t applaud those who set the world on fire: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because...
I deny them my essence
Rusty Foster with a couple of great lines in the most recent Today in Tabs. Purity Supreme: I do not avoid camels Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence. ... our never nude horseman of pestilence...
The art of losing
The Sacramento Kings Are Dedicated To Dignified Losing: There's something indefinably wonderful happening here in a delightfully unpleasant way, which is how bulk losing should be.
MLB salary cap
From Bluesky: I say this every NBA trade deadline, but if I ever have to learn what a trade exception is or how to calculate it for my job, I swear to God I am going to hunt down everyone who rooted...
Allow greatness
Heard this on The Read: It's very important that you allow people to hate you into greatness.
White people need to grow the f up
Rachel Cohen resigned from Skadden when they bent the knee. She's been spitting bars ever since. On this quote, she wrote: Spoke with Current Affairs and gave perhaps the most said-it-with-my-chest...
Classic Nazi mistake
From Minneapolis: I've Never Seen Unity Like This Before I decided to come up to cover the anti-ICE resistance up there, I reached out to a friend who lived there. “It’s going to be really, really...
I've been waiting for an excuse
From Reddit: When I was 19 and home on leave, she picked a fight with me and eventually advanced on me, fists clenched, hissing that I "wasn't too big to spank". I looked her dead in the eye and...
Classless and not elegant
Love this person flipping the script on their family's bad behavior. I’ve realized that my family doesn’t respond well to me pointing out their racism or body shaming by saying it’s “rude” and “a...
Not going to lie to you
Joe Johnson had this great line on Nightcap: You know I ain't going to lie to you just 'cuz it sound fly to you.
Alienation as a negotiation tactic
Why the Brock Purdy Contract Stinks: And these are the 49ers, for heaven’s sake: the franchise that never met a big-name veteran that it couldn’t alienate with its intermittent-fasting approach to...
Romance
They found my side hustle!
Religious clapback
From Tumblr: One of the biggest power moves I have here in the midwest when someone is being racist, sexist, homophobic is that I tell them that I’ll pray for them so that god can grace them with...
Judases and Brutuses
Charming trade scenario
Quentin Grimes Is The Tragicomic Protagonist Of The Terminal NBA Season: ... I am charmed by a trade that could turn out to have hurt both teams while helping a player's career in the process.
Putting it delicately
Kenny Williams implied how deeply he dislikes Tony LaRussa in the best way. An owner who ‘thinks he knows everything’ led the White Sox to historic disaster: Asked about La Russa’s nearly two seasons...
Gambling crazed CJ Abrams
Nationals End Season By Demoting Leadoff Hitter Who Was In A Casino Until 8:00 A.M.: Poverty, they say, affords moral clarity. Nasim Nuñez, with all due respect, is not taking the Nationals anywhere...
Everyone's private struggle
Jaguars Junction: Bye Week: As we look ahead, let us all resolve to treat one another with a greater degree of understanding. Each of us is engaged in his own private struggle. None of us are mere...
Sneering tone
You Can Probably Eat More Yogurt Than You Think: My writing tends to tackle important policy issues with an analytical fearlessness that some have described as “unbearable” or “possessing the...
Being properly appreciated
Jaguars Junction: Week 15: I chose not to attend the game after all, for the same reason that a professional “storm chaser” might not volunteer to plow headlong into a deadly twister: Because...
Justice in this world
I love Hamilton Nolan's writing. Jaguars Junction: Week 17: As mankind evolves past a belief in an omnipotent god, we must inevitably face the question: Whence does justice arise? For if there is no...
Lions and hunters
Shannon Sharpe said the following on the Wednesday episode of Nightcap: Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
Butthair
Stats analogy
This quote hits too close to home: Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination.
Who are you?
Jaguars Junction: Week 1 After all, who are you to question me? "Who am I?" you reply. "I am mother. I am father. I am sister. I am brother. I am woman. I am man. I am human. I am friend. I am lover....
Drew Magary great lines
Drew Magary is one of my favorite writers. He has great lines all the time. Here are my favs: It’s Decided. I’m Moving To Arica, Chile.: ... if my kids were still three wanted to play peek-a-boo, I...
What the Hell Is Going on at Kanye West's Mysterious New Private School?
How are parents sending their kids to this school? Ye is a known crazy person. Elsewhere images circulated of the children gathered in an empty warehouse, eating a nutritious meal at foldout tables,...
I'm not a victim
A pal at work just dropped this gem: I'm not a victim, I have victims.
Vodka Papa John's shot
Batman
Jon Bois' 2014 NFL Draft writeups
I love Jon Bois' writing:
Get The Details Right
From Mastermind, a James Bond villain-level hacker had the following exchange at his trial: Q. And, for example, you ordered the murder of a Filipino customs agent, correct? A. That’s not correct. Q....
Roger Ebert's searing critiques
Roger Ebert was always at his best when he didn't like a movie, like 1980's Spit on Your Grave: I wanted to turn to the man near me and tell him his remarks were disgusting, but I did not. To hold...
Lies
Men lie, women lie, buckets don’t.- Dion Waiters
Trust No One
A true gentleman knows his likes: Sir Stewart Menzies, who, we are told, "rode to hounds, mixed with royalty, never missed a day at Ascot, drank a great deal, and kept his secrets buttoned up behind...
Reconcile with the MAGAs
Joe Biden Is Right: For America to Heal, We Must Find Common Ground With Trump Supporters: TO STEAL ALL THE REMOTE CONTROLS AND SHOELACES FROM THEIR HOMES TO GRAB THEIR HANDS WHILE THEY’RE SLEEP AND...
Adapting to any situation
This quote by Andy Warhol has always resonated with me as a way to explain my youth: When a situation develops gradually, no matter how weird that situation is, you get used to it.
I live in a world of ghosts
From the movie, the Seventh Seal: “My indifference has shut me out. I live in a world of ghosts, a prisoner of dreams. I want God to put out his hand, show his face, speak to me. I cry out to him in...
I hated, hated, hated this movie
These are some great-lines from Roger Ebert's book, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie: In which we determine how werewolves are made, how they are killed, and how they spread their wolfiness. Here is...
Desire
Naval Ravikant is a wise dude, but is put into that weird class of individuals deified by Silicon Valley. Remember, he's just a man: Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until...
I don't try to be different
From El-P, now of Run the Jewels, then of Company Flow: I don't try to be different, I am... This quote has always spoken to me.
Maybe it's you
From the TV show Justified, the great Raylan Givens: You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole; you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.
Wisdom from Killa Cam
Cam'ron dropped this jewel in "Losing Weight": Can’t get paid in a earth this big? You worthless kid!
Sentient braided leather belt
KC Vs. St. Louis
Loads Of Tedious Work
MLB Shootaround (the Horn): The Most Intriguing Second-Half Story Lines "...invoke the same sort of emotions one feels watching Werner Herzog movies: despair, hopelessness, and the exhaustion of...
Can Someone Please Explain To Me How One Would Fake The Funk On A Nasty Dunk
Can someone please explain to me how one would fake the funk on a nasty dunk?: From urbandictionary - Fake the Funk: (v.) To act with a false ethos surrounding oneself in an attempt to win respect...
Snickers the cat
My pal Steve posted this to Facebook: I've been helping out at Bonner Animal Rescue recently, and I’m slowly getting to know its denizens on a level that is only achieved when you've thrown off all...
Chelsea Peretti
From the "Call Chelsea Peretti" podcast: Did you major in feminism? You give off the vibe of someone who cries a lot.
A Special Club
Either George Carlin or Drew Carey said this, but it's still a classic. "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the...
Puppet Master
My favorite XKCD line ever: