Interesting Reading

1.

Q : If you could live forever, would you and why?

A : "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

2.

"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

3.

"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

4.

"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.

5.

"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

6.

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."

-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward

7.

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."

-- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.

8.

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."

-- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

9.

"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

10.

"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."

-- Former French President Charles De Gaulle

11.

"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

12.

"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

13.

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."

-- Philadelphia Phillies manager Danny Ozark

14.

"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

15.

"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."

-- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle

16.

"The private enterprise system indicates that some people have higher incomes than others."

-- former governor of California, Gerry Brown

17.

"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another."

-- George Bush, US President

18.

"I have opinions of my own -strong opinions- but I don't always agree with them."

-- George Bush, US President

19.

"Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand."

-- Duffy Daugherty, football coach and sports analyst

20.

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"

-- Lee Iacocca

21.

"Please provide the date of your death."

-- from an IRS letter

22.

I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes."

-- Richard Nixon, US President

23.

"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

24.

"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

25.

"Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl."

-- Bill Peterson, football coach

26.

"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

27.

"Be sure and put some of those neutrons on it."

-- Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, ordering a salad at a restaurant

28.

"We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally."

-- Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister

29.

"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

-- Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback and sports analyst

30.

"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."

-- Ivana Trump, upon finishing her first novel

31.

"I've read about foreign policy and studied - I know the number of continents."

-- George Wallace, 1968 presidential campaign

32.

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

-- Dan Quayle