- 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 Universe 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.
- Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued...
Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1,
1976.
-- Letter from the Illinois Department of Public Aid
- The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this
century's history...We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this
century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republican vice-presidential
candidate during a news conference in which he was asked his opinion of the
Holocaust
- Rotarians, be patriotic! Learn to shoot yourself.
-- Chicago Rotary Club journal, "Gyrator"
- The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them
unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia
- 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
- After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the
school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David
Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Barrington, Rhode Island
- The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.
-- Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball
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