QUOTABLES
- Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live
forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would
live
forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not
live forever."
-- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest
- "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the
world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that,
but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
-- Mariah Carey
- "Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the
same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also
discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are."
-- Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show, August 22
- "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with
the law."
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations
that he failed to pay his taxes.
- "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part
of your life."
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson
for a federal anti-smoking campaign.
- "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward
- "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime
rates in the country."
-- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.
- "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
-- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
- "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We
are the president."
-- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed
- documents
- "That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it."
-- A congressional candidate in Texas
- "I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from
them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and
the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."
-- John Wayne
- "Half this game is ninety percent mental."
-- Philadelphia Phillies manager Danny Ozark
- "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the
impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
-- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
- "Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public
mind."
-- General William Westmoreland
- "If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be
cut right out from under your feet."
-- Former British foreign minister Ernest Bevin
- "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
-- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
- "The private enterprise system indicates that some people have
higher incomes than others."
--Gerry Brown
- "It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way
or another."
--George Bush, US President
- "I have opinions of my own -strong opinions- but I don't always
agree with them."
--George Bush, US President
- "Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand."
--Duffy Daugherty, football coach and sports analyst
- "We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
--Lee Iacocca
- "Please provide the date of your death." ---The IRS---
- "I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes."
--Richard Nixon, US President
"I was provided with additional input that was radically different
from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
--Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony
- "We are sorry to announce that Mr. Albert Brown has been quite
unwell, owing to his recent death, and is taking a short holiday to
recover."
--Parish Magazine
- "Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and
one word only: Super Bowl."
--Bill Peterson, football coach
- "Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that
is by itself. It is different from the other 49 states. Well, all
states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation."
--Dan Quayle, US VP
- "Be sure and put some of those neutrons on it."
--Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, ordering a salad at a restaurant
- "We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally."
--Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister
- "The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy
like Norman Einstein."
--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback and sports analyst
- "Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."
--Ivana Trump, upon finishing her first novel
- "I've read about foreign policy and studied -- I know the number of
continents."
--George Wallace, 1968 presidential campaign
- "We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types
of people."
--Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor
- "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
--Dan Quayle
- "We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
--Dan Quayle
- "The road of good intentions is paved with Hell."
--Spencer Ante
- "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
--Keppel Enderbery
- "The loss of life will be irreplaceable."
--Dan Quayle
- "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I
have is that I didn't study my Latin harder in school so I could
converse with those people."
--Dan Quayle
- "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is
being very wasteful. How true that is."
--Dan Quayle
- "It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago..."
--Dan Quayle
- "The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with
being a woman."
--Rear Admiral James R. Hogg
- "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
--Dan Quayle
- "Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we
received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may
reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."
--Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina
- "We apologize for the error in last week's paper in which we stated
that Mr. Arnold Dogbody was a defective in the police force. We
meant, of course, that Mr. Dogbody is a detective in the police farce."
--Correction Notice in the Ely Standard, a British newspaper
- "If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night
as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night.
And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
--Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
- "Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly."
--Batman Costume warning label
