Passersby Were Amazed By The Unusually Large Amounts of Blood
In the print version of the popular United States-based satirical newspaper The Onion, the sentence "Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood" is often repeated to fill space under a bold-text non sequitur made to appear as if the bolded "quote" has been pulled from an article nearby. This running gag has been part of The Onion for several years. The passage was eventually used in an actual article in 2008.
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Famous quotes containing the words amazed, unusually, large, amounts and/or blood:
“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
“Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)
“... a large portion of success is derived from flexibility. It is all very well to have principles, rules of behavior concerning right and wrong. But it is quite as essential to know when to forget as when to use them.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)
“Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.”
—Truman Capote (1924–1984)
“The land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.”
—Bible: Hebrew Numbers 35:33.