“PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.”
Ambrose Bierce
“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.”
W. C. Fields
“Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling.”
Walt Whitman
“...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?”
Cary Grant
“She is a movie star in a classic sense. She is more dazzling than any blonde before her.”
Niki Caro
“The spending growth is impressive, but shouldn't come as too great a surprise. These dazzling increases are possible in part because growth came from such a small base. And in the last few years the Internet has truly become a mainstream medium.”
David Hallerman
“[Two seafaring movie tales recharged the genre: Johnny Depp dazzled in] Pirates of the Caribbean ... Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.”
Russell Crowe
