Stuff You Should Know Quotes

“Persistence is the key to staying lost.”
― Chuck Bryant, Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things

“You know what they say: every man wants a lady in the streets and a freak in the shrubs.”
― Chuck Bryant, Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things

“In linguistics, a hyponym is a word that is a more specific subset of a larger, more general word. The more general word is called a hypernym. Tequila is a hyponym of mezcal. Mezcal is the hypernym of tequila.8 In the abstract, that relationship reads like: All Xs are Ys; not all Ys are Xs. What it means here is that all tequilas are mezcal, but not all mezcals are tequila. HOPE YOU’RE NOT IN A RUSH Now, it’s true that many wines are aged for a number of years, and many of the best whiskies can be aged anywhere from six to twenty years before they’re released.”
― Josh Clark, Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things