a few of my favorites.. "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life," --Brooke Shields “I’ve been up and down so many times that I feel as if I’m in a revolving door.†– Cher "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." -- Dan Quayle "So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?" -- Christina Aguilera "Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything." -- Ivana Trump "The internet is a great way to get on the net." -- Bob Dole "I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada." -- Britney Spears "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father." -- Greg Norman "I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid." -- Paris Hilton "I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman" -- Arnold Schwarzenegger "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 "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt." -- Chuck Nevitt
Some quotes by Prince Phillip. 1. China State Visit, 1986 If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed. 2. To a blind women with a guide “Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?†3. To an Aborigine in Australia “Do you still throw spears at each other?†4. To his wife, the Queen, after her coronation “Where did you get the hat?†5. When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union “The bastards murdered half my family†6. To a Briton in Budapest “You can’t have been here that long - you haven’t got a pot belly.†7. To a driving instructor in Scotland “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?†8. After the Dunblane shooting “If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?†9. To a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea “You managed not to get eaten, then?†10. To Elton John after hearing Elton had sold his Gold Aston Martin “Oh, it’s you that owns that ghastly car - we often see it when driving to Windsor Castle.†11. On the London Traffic Debate “The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop tourism, we could stop the congestion.†12. To the President of Nigeria, dressed in traditional robes “You look like you’re ready for bed!†13. Unknown “If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it’s either a new woman or a new car!†14. On key problems facing Brazil “Brazilians live there†15. To the matron of a hospital in the Caribbean “You have mosquitos. I have the Press†He really should start thinking before opening his mouth.
"I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid." - Paris Hilton
Taken from gnu.org: "Britain is not an island...well, yes it is, but..." - Unidentified MP, on BBC Radio 4 - from Mark Saxby (Reading, England) "The President continues to surprise people, so I am not surprised to be surprised." - US Secy of Defense Dick Cheney - from Mark Wiersbeck (Minneapolis, MN, USA) "President Bush is due to address the nation in approximately 20 minutes precisely." - Peter Jennings, ABC News - from Roger Allen (Nashua, NH, USA) "Mobile launchers are more difficult to detect because they move around, unlike fixed launchers." - Katie Coucik, NBC News - from Lowell McCulley (Nashua, NH, USA) "Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment." - Tom Brokaw, NBC News - from Jeff E. Nelson (Nashua, NH, USA) "We have good reason to believe he was stabbed. There was a sharp object sticking out of his chest". - Lt. R. Travis, Newburgh, NY, Police Dept, cited in National Lampoon calendar - from Jim Reisert (Hudson, MA, USA) "The City of Rochester (Michigan) is considering a ban on smoking at the park because people are leaving their butts on the beach." - Announcer, WJR Radio, Detroit, MI - from Jim Cotton (Novi, MI, USA) "Men between the ages of 18 and 25 must register for the draft on their 18th birthday." - Sign in a US Post Office - from Bruce Stadler (Dallas, TX, USA) "This door must not be opened under any circumstances." - Sign outside a fire exit in a hotel - from C. N. Kumar (Karnataka, India) "We have to expect it, otherwise we would be surprised." - Unidentified general officer, re: Gulf war. - from Thierry Ciot (Valbonne, France) "Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time." - Ellen Kushner on "Caravan", WGBH radio, Boston - from Roger Goun (Nashua, NH, USA) "It is mandatory that tenderers provide proof that the specified performance requirements are likely to be achieved by the proposed system." - Request for Quotation from unidentified prospective client - from Kass Antanaitis (Canberra, Australia) "President Union will address the nation on the state of the Bush." _ Hampton Pearson, news reporter, WBZ TV - from Paul Poznick (Andover, MA, USA) "Although some functional managers had heard of RISC, virtually none had heard of RISC" - Digital Marketing Study - from Ken Berkun (Hong Kong) "Sir James Spicer...has officially opened a lavatory at the Piddle Valley First School near Dorchester." - VNS #2244 Main News, 23 Jan 90 - from Dick Binder (Nashua, NH, USA) "Tensions in Latvia...are tense..." - WBZ Radio, Boston, 21 Jan 91, news - from Gunar Zagars (Andover, MA, USA) 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 "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 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, DC. "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." -- Unknown. This has been attributed to: Al Gore, Vice President Dan Quayle, Vice President George W. Bush, Texas Governor "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." -- Dan Quayle "It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another" -- George Bush, US President "We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" -- Lee Iacocca "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. "The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." -- Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst. "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." -- Unknown. This has been attributed to: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, George Bush (Sr. and Jr.), and Dan Quayle "We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." -- Al Gore, VP "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." -- Keppel Enderbery "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 "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