Understatement/Quotes
The war has developed, not necessarily to Japan's advantage. ... In the event of a sustained atomic bombing, the protection of the Japanese nation would be difficult.
—Emperor Hirohito's 'Jewel Voice Broadcast', August 1945
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Major-General Robert H Soule, US Army: How are the Glosters doing? |
Xykon: What happened? |
Tom Servo: You know, there are certain flaws in this movie
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"To call it an understatement would be an understatement."
—Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation
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[A] District Attorney in Texas is on trial for building himself a sweet rig on the county dime. The machine in question sports "two hard drives, seven fans, high-end video and audio cards, a wireless Internet connection and cables that glow under ultraviolet light."... "I would not configure a backup computer in that way," says Mr. Gregg, FBI senior forensic examiner and reigning Understatement King. —Tycho, Penny Arcade, commentary on The Case of Texas vs. KryoLord
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Not even Spock had stayed aboard for that -- he found breathing vacuum for any length of time to be aesthetically unpleasent.
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The Joker is a tricky foe. His jokes are never funny. Sometimes they hurt people. —Catherine Hapka, I Am Batman
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Ford: I rescued you from the Earth. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series
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I am supposed to call for help, if I run into trouble I can't handle on my own. —Elspeth, Luminosity
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Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops.
—General Buck Turgidson, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Enemy Agent: You killed two of my men |
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.
—British Airways pilot, after flying through a cloud of volcanic ash.
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Adolf Hitler was a very naughty man.
—Educational Video, South Park
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Collecting customs duties in America had not been one of Britain's glorious successes in the eighteenth century —Robert Middlekauf, The Glorious Cause: the American Revolution 1763-1789
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That Alberquerque possessed an intemperate streak was becoming increasingly apparent, not just to the hapless Omanis but also to his own captains.
—Roger Crowley, describing a Portuguese admiral with a taste for Mosque-burning, town-sacking, and prisoner mutilation, Conquerors: How Portugal forged the first global empire
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"You don't want molten metal boiling on your skin. It's generally frowned upon." —Adam Savage, Live Stream, March 13, 2023
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