The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and
re-forming!
‘The Melting Pot’ (1908) act 1
14.2 Darryl F. Zanuck 1902-79
For God’s sake don’t say yes until I’ve finished talking.
In Philip French ‘The Movie Moguls’ (1969) ch. 5
14.3 Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919
Muchos de ellos, por complacer a tiranos, por un puñado de monedas, o por cohecho o
soborno, est n derramando la sangre de sus hermanos.
Many of them, so as to curry favour with tyrants, for a fistful of coins, or through bribery or
corruption, are shedding the blood of their brothers.
‘Plan de Ayala’ 28 November 1911, para. 10 (referring to the maderistas who, in Zapata’s view, had betrayed
the revolutionary cause)
14.4 Frank Zappa 1940—
Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who
can’t read.
In Linda Botts ‘Loose Talk’ (1980) p. 177
14.5 Robert Zemeckis 1952—and Bob Gale 1952—
Back to the future.
Title of film (1985)
14.6 Ronald L. Ziegler 1939—
Reminded of the President’s previous statements that the White House was not involved [in the
Watergate affair], Ziegler said that Mr Nixon’s latest statement ‘is the Operative White House
Position...and all previous statements are inoperative.’
‘Boston Globe’ 18 April 1973
14.7 Grigori Zinoviev 1883-1936
Armed warfare must be preceded by a struggle against the inclinations to compromise which
are embedded among the majority of British workmen, against the ideas of evolution and
peaceful extermination of capitalism. Only then will it be possible to count upon complete
success of an armed insurrection.
Letter to the British Communist Party, 15 September 1924, in ‘The Times’ 25 October 1924 (the ‘Zinoviev
Letter’, said by some to be a forgery: see ‘Listener’ 17 September 1987)
14.8 Èmile Zola 1840-1902
Ne me regardez plus comme ça, parce que vous allez vous user les yeux.