Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. – Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history. – Thomas Campbell
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. – David Brainerd
