Kathryn Petras
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Renowned connoisseurs of stupidity, Kathryn and Ross Petras, train their sights on the wide world of sports. This humorous compendium of the truly idiotic includes quotes, commentary, and not-so-sage wisdom from players, coaches, and broadcasters, as well as anecdotes, lists, charts, and oddities from all corners of the sports universe.
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A COMPENDIUM OF WISDOM
"Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it." – GEORGE CARLIN
When change comes we have two options: Resist it, and lose. Or go with the flow, and grow. Which means there's really just one option-embracing change is the only path to living your true life. So laugh at it, with George Carlin. Celebrate it, like Patti Smith and David Bowie. Above all, grow with it, like Maya Angelou, Stephen Hawking,...
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Uncommon times call for uncommon wisdom. It's inspiring to hear from people who've graduated from the school of hard knocks, yet kept a sense of humor. People like Twain, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde. People who've said the thing so well that we all wish we'd said it. People who've been there, done that, and refuse to sugarcoat what they've learned. People who know, as Sherry Hochman puts it, that "Every day is a gift-even if it sucks."
From Kathryn...
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Timeless in their wisdom, thought-provoking in their message, surprising in their truth and memorable in their originality, the right words can give direction, inspiration, and sometimes a tangible boost onto the right path. For example, Steve Jobs once read "Stay hungry Stay foolish" on the back cover of The Whole Earth Catalog, and those four words came to guide his life.
Created by Kathryn and Ross Petras, connoisseurs of quotes, whose books...
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A book of inspirational quotations, Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day presents hundreds of reminders from some of the smartest people who ever lived-from Dr. Seuss to Erma Bombeck, Thich Nhat Hanh to Lena Dunham-that happiness is everywhere and the glass is half-full. It's the perfect gift of optimism, for good times and not-so-good times. Kathryn and Ross Petras, brother and sister, are great curators of quotes whose books and calendars have 5...
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Pursuing a dream is hard work, but the right words delivered at the right time-by people who've been there and done that-can give us just the motivation we need. The right words can rekindle our enthusiasm, re-energize our efforts, dispel doubt, let us know we're not alone, and show us that the fight is worth it-and winnable.
Kathryn and Ross Petras are masters at choosing and delivering just the right words. Their books-such as "Age Doesn't Matter...
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Not just stupidity, but obsessive stupidity! Not just random stupidity, but organized stupidity! Here, from the celebrated collectors of the stupidest things ever said, it's the cre`me de la cre`me of stupidities, made even funnier and more compelling in an irresistible top 10 list format. Try one:
The Top 10 Stupidest Actual Book Titles:
1. A Toddler's Guide to the Rubber Industry
2. Constipation and our Civilization
3. Greek Rural Postmen...
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A gift that celebrates being yourself, in your own unique way.
Do you ever feel different? A little weird, a little wacky? It's time to own it, because, as Meryl Streep proclaimed, "what makes you different or weird, that's your strength." In this inspiring collection, singers, poets, actors, activists, comedians, designers, athletes, and philosophers share wise and pithy reflections on what it's like to march to the beat of a different drummer....
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Required reading from great poets of our time. Drew Barrymore: "Upon Pondering Breasts." Tom Cruise: "An Exegesis on Psychiatry." Ann Coulter: "My Kind of Fun." And Trump and Sheen and Snooki, John Boehner and Michelle Bachman, Miley and Ke$ha. Hugo Chavez. Even a Zen haiku by Emmitt Smith:
I think it's his self-
confidence in himself that
makes him confident.
With their great gift for curating the inane public utterances of celebrities,...
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Chronicle Books
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[2022]
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"Explore the history your textbook left out through the eyes (mouth, ears, and spleen) of the world's most iconic players in A History of the World Through Body Parts, a curious collection of unbelievable anecdotes all about the body. In this book, you'll learn all about: The Mayan history of bloodletting and Lady Xoc's pierced tongue The double decapitations that altered the course of the English monarchy Global feminism and the unbinding of Chinese...
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A Perigee Book
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[2013]
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"Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it's very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad. It's also very funny. A celebration of the worst writing imaginable, Wretched Writing includes inadvertently filthy book titles, ridiculously overwrought passages from novels,...
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Ten Speed Press
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[2016]
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"For word nerds and grammar geeks, an illustrated guide to the most commonly mispronounced words, along with their correct pronunciations and pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and histories of use and misuse. With wit and good humor, this handy little book not only saves us from sticky linguistic situations but also provides fascinating cocktail-party-ready anecdotes. Entries reveal how to pronounce boatswain like an old salt on the...
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Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2020]
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"A compendium of 100 words and phrases smart people use--even if they only kinda sorta (secretly don't) know what they mean--with pithy definitions and fascinating etymologies to solidify their meanings. Your boss makes a joke about Schrodinger's cat--which is something you've heard of but you're a little vague about what exactly happened (or didn't happen) with that cat. Or you're reading a New Yorker article that explains that "Solecism slipped...
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Freudian slips, spoonerisms, double-talk, and nonsense from famous and infamous figures past and present, are all here in one digest that will have you howling with laughter. Imagine saying to the Beatles, "You'll never make it...Go back to Liverpool." That's what a Decca Records executive told the Fab Four in 1962. Senator S.I. Hayakawa allegedly pointed out, "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep."
Siblings and stupidity experts Ross...
