Post by HWI on Jun 13, 2005 10:38:03 GMT
"This is unparalyzed in the state's history."
- Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House
"And now, will y'all stand and be recognized."
- Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House, to a group of people in wheelchairs on Disability Day
"I cannot tell you how grateful I am -- I am filled with humidity."
- Gib Lewis, speaker of the Texas House
"I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s."
- Gil Schwartz, CBS publicist, on the "Survivor" finale.
"For most people, death comes at the end of their lives."
- GLR broadcaster, UK
"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."
- Greg Norman, Golfer
"Does the album have any songs you like that aren't on it?
- Harry News, music reviewer
"From an early age I was aware of what America meant, and how the Marines at Camp Pendleton were ready to defend us at a moment's notice. I also remember what fabulous bodies those troops had."
- Heather Locklear, Actress
"Sonny Liston has a very unusual injury, a dislocated soldier."
- Henry Cooper, BBC sportscaster
"Coming on to pitch is Mike Moore, who is six-foot-one and 212 years old."
- Herb Score, Sportscaster
"A period novel! About the Civil War! Who needs the Civil War now -- who cares?"
- Herbert R. Mayes (Editor of the Pictorial Review ), turning down a prepublication offer to serialize Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, 1936
"Give Bill a second term, and Al Gore and I will be turned loose to do what we really want to do."
- Hillary Clinton, former first lady, at a Democratic fundraiser
"The war did not turn in Japan's favor, and trends of the world are not advantageous to us."
- Japan's Emperor Hirohito, announcing his country's surrender to America and its WWII allies, after two atom bombs had been dropped.
"Teeth extracted by the latest methodists."
- Hong Kong dental advertisement
"For the majority of people, the use of tobacco has a beneficial effect."
- Dr. Ian G. MacDonald, Los Angles Surgeon, as Quoted in Newsweek November 18, 1969.
"I deny the allegations and I defy the alligators!"
- Indicted Chicago Alderman
"FIRST, CARRY TO FIRE."
- Instructions on a fire extinguisher
"Passive activity income does not include the following: Income for an activity that is not a passive activity."
- IRS form 8583, Passive Activity Loss Limitation
"Secretaries for openings in college administrative areas. Good typing, word processing helpful. Able to interfere with faculty, staff, and students."
- Irondequoit, NY want-ad
"Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything."
- Ivana Trump, on finishing her first novel
"Absolutely. I am not garbage - a single girl type.
- Ivana Trump, on whether she will marry again
"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding."
- Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons
"The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a woman."
- James R. Hogg, Rear Admiral
"His previous wives just didn't understand him."
- Jan Chamberlain, wife #8 for Mickey Rooney
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
- Jason Kidd upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
"I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever."
- Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress, in the February Cosmopolitan.
"We're going to move left and right at the same time."
- Jerry Brown, Governor of California
"Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!"
- Jerry Coleman, Padres radio announcer
"There's a soft liner, which is caught by the second baseman. And the ball game is over! For this inning.
- Jerry Coleman, Baseball announcer
"Whoever designed the streets must have been drunk... I think it was those Irish guys."
- Jesse Ventura, Minnesota governor
"I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them... knock on wood."
- Jim Deshaies, Minnesota Twins pitcher
"A brain scan revealed Andrew Caddick is not suffering from a stress fracture of the shin."
- Jo Sheldon
"I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl."
- Joe Jacoby, NFL Football player, of the Washington Redskins
"To win, I'd run over Joe's mom too."
- Matt Millen, NFL Football player, of the Raiders
"My appetite is so good that I can eat the tablecloth right off the chair."
- Joseph Moakley, Massachusetts representative
"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
- Joe Theisman, quarterback and sports analyst
"In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper."
- John Motson, BBC1
"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, Actor
"I have no political ambitions for myself or my children."
- Joseph P. Kennedy, 1936
"I have a God-given talent. I got it from my dad."
- Julian Wakefield, Missouri basketball player
"Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth."
- Kahlil Gibran
"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
- Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery
"If I had a choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse. It's a lot more fun"
- Kevin Costner, Actor
"When I'm a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they'll believe me because they weren't listening to me."
- Kylie Bax, Model/Actress , in Stuff magazine.
"If you're living in an area with a bad school, move to a place where there's a better school."
- Lamar Alexander, former Secretary of Education, explaining his ideas on what parents of children who attend poorly funded urban or rural schools should do to solve the problem
"We talked five times. I called him twice, and he called me twice."
- Larry Bowa, California Angels coach
"I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted."
- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.
"If you or any member of your family has been killed..."
- Lawyer commercial on TV, Orlando, Florida
"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
- Lee Iacocca, former Chrysler Chariman
"I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to."
- Linda Evangelista, Supermodel
"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."
- Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota.
"I don't think that Saddam Hussein is deliberately starving his own people. I would think that a man who gets 99 percent of the people to vote for him in an election and the people love him so much, how would they love a man that is starving them?"
- Louis Farrakhan, Leader of The Nation of Islam
"It is now 22 minutes past 8:30."
- Lynn Russell, WKAT radio disc jockey
"Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion."
- Madonna
"Man shoots neighbor with machete."
- Miami Herald, headline
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Whenever I watch TV and I see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I would love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
- Mariah Carey, Pop Singer
"I say no to drugs, but they don't listen."
- Marilyn Manson, Singer
"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate."
- Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.
"The largest crowd ever in the state of Las Vegas."
- Mark Jones, TV Broadcaster
"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
"Okay, everyone, now inhale... and then dehale!"
- Maury Wills, Los Angeles Dodgers captain, leading his teammates through warm-up calisthenics
"Pitching is 80% of the game. The other half is hitting and fielding."
- Mickey Rivers, baseball player
"It's like when I buy a horse. I don't want a thick neck and short legs."
- Mickey Rourke, Actor, describing what he wants in a woman.
"I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I am forty-five."
- Mick Jagger, Pop Singer, before he turned 45
"I'm a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife."
- Mike Greenwell, Baseball player
"It's got lots of installation."
- Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, describing his new coat
- Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House
"And now, will y'all stand and be recognized."
- Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House, to a group of people in wheelchairs on Disability Day
"I cannot tell you how grateful I am -- I am filled with humidity."
- Gib Lewis, speaker of the Texas House
"I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s."
- Gil Schwartz, CBS publicist, on the "Survivor" finale.
"For most people, death comes at the end of their lives."
- GLR broadcaster, UK
"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."
- Greg Norman, Golfer
"Does the album have any songs you like that aren't on it?
- Harry News, music reviewer
"From an early age I was aware of what America meant, and how the Marines at Camp Pendleton were ready to defend us at a moment's notice. I also remember what fabulous bodies those troops had."
- Heather Locklear, Actress
"Sonny Liston has a very unusual injury, a dislocated soldier."
- Henry Cooper, BBC sportscaster
"Coming on to pitch is Mike Moore, who is six-foot-one and 212 years old."
- Herb Score, Sportscaster
"A period novel! About the Civil War! Who needs the Civil War now -- who cares?"
- Herbert R. Mayes (Editor of the Pictorial Review ), turning down a prepublication offer to serialize Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, 1936
"Give Bill a second term, and Al Gore and I will be turned loose to do what we really want to do."
- Hillary Clinton, former first lady, at a Democratic fundraiser
"The war did not turn in Japan's favor, and trends of the world are not advantageous to us."
- Japan's Emperor Hirohito, announcing his country's surrender to America and its WWII allies, after two atom bombs had been dropped.
"Teeth extracted by the latest methodists."
- Hong Kong dental advertisement
"For the majority of people, the use of tobacco has a beneficial effect."
- Dr. Ian G. MacDonald, Los Angles Surgeon, as Quoted in Newsweek November 18, 1969.
"I deny the allegations and I defy the alligators!"
- Indicted Chicago Alderman
"FIRST, CARRY TO FIRE."
- Instructions on a fire extinguisher
"Passive activity income does not include the following: Income for an activity that is not a passive activity."
- IRS form 8583, Passive Activity Loss Limitation
"Secretaries for openings in college administrative areas. Good typing, word processing helpful. Able to interfere with faculty, staff, and students."
- Irondequoit, NY want-ad
"Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything."
- Ivana Trump, on finishing her first novel
"Absolutely. I am not garbage - a single girl type.
- Ivana Trump, on whether she will marry again
"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding."
- Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons
"The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a woman."
- James R. Hogg, Rear Admiral
"His previous wives just didn't understand him."
- Jan Chamberlain, wife #8 for Mickey Rooney
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
- Jason Kidd upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
"I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever."
- Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress, in the February Cosmopolitan.
"We're going to move left and right at the same time."
- Jerry Brown, Governor of California
"Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!"
- Jerry Coleman, Padres radio announcer
"There's a soft liner, which is caught by the second baseman. And the ball game is over! For this inning.
- Jerry Coleman, Baseball announcer
"Whoever designed the streets must have been drunk... I think it was those Irish guys."
- Jesse Ventura, Minnesota governor
"I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them... knock on wood."
- Jim Deshaies, Minnesota Twins pitcher
"A brain scan revealed Andrew Caddick is not suffering from a stress fracture of the shin."
- Jo Sheldon
"I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl."
- Joe Jacoby, NFL Football player, of the Washington Redskins
"To win, I'd run over Joe's mom too."
- Matt Millen, NFL Football player, of the Raiders
"My appetite is so good that I can eat the tablecloth right off the chair."
- Joseph Moakley, Massachusetts representative
"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
- Joe Theisman, quarterback and sports analyst
"In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper."
- John Motson, BBC1
"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, Actor
"I have no political ambitions for myself or my children."
- Joseph P. Kennedy, 1936
"I have a God-given talent. I got it from my dad."
- Julian Wakefield, Missouri basketball player
"Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth."
- Kahlil Gibran
"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
- Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery
"If I had a choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse. It's a lot more fun"
- Kevin Costner, Actor
"When I'm a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they'll believe me because they weren't listening to me."
- Kylie Bax, Model/Actress , in Stuff magazine.
"If you're living in an area with a bad school, move to a place where there's a better school."
- Lamar Alexander, former Secretary of Education, explaining his ideas on what parents of children who attend poorly funded urban or rural schools should do to solve the problem
"We talked five times. I called him twice, and he called me twice."
- Larry Bowa, California Angels coach
"I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted."
- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.
"If you or any member of your family has been killed..."
- Lawyer commercial on TV, Orlando, Florida
"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
- Lee Iacocca, former Chrysler Chariman
"I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to."
- Linda Evangelista, Supermodel
"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."
- Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota.
"I don't think that Saddam Hussein is deliberately starving his own people. I would think that a man who gets 99 percent of the people to vote for him in an election and the people love him so much, how would they love a man that is starving them?"
- Louis Farrakhan, Leader of The Nation of Islam
"It is now 22 minutes past 8:30."
- Lynn Russell, WKAT radio disc jockey
"Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion."
- Madonna
"Man shoots neighbor with machete."
- Miami Herald, headline
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Whenever I watch TV and I see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I would love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
- Mariah Carey, Pop Singer
"I say no to drugs, but they don't listen."
- Marilyn Manson, Singer
"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate."
- Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.
"The largest crowd ever in the state of Las Vegas."
- Mark Jones, TV Broadcaster
"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
"Okay, everyone, now inhale... and then dehale!"
- Maury Wills, Los Angeles Dodgers captain, leading his teammates through warm-up calisthenics
"Pitching is 80% of the game. The other half is hitting and fielding."
- Mickey Rivers, baseball player
"It's like when I buy a horse. I don't want a thick neck and short legs."
- Mickey Rourke, Actor, describing what he wants in a woman.
"I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I am forty-five."
- Mick Jagger, Pop Singer, before he turned 45
"I'm a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife."
- Mike Greenwell, Baseball player
"It's got lots of installation."
- Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, describing his new coat
