Friday, December 4, 2009

Some Really Insightful Quotes I Thought I'd Share

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." (Brooke Sheilds during an interview to be a spokeswoman for an anti-smoking campagn)

“I've never had major knee surgery on any part of my body.”
-Winston Bennett(University of Kentucky basketball forward, American Basketball Player)

"Outside of the killings, Washington D.C. has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
-Mayor Marion Barry, Washington D.C.

“That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it”
- Congressional candidate in Texas

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix"
- Dan Quayle

"We dont necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."
- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
- Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark

" Its no exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or another"
- George Bush, US President

"If we dont succeed, we run the risk of failure."
- Bill Clinton, President

"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

2 comments:

Walter Cronkite said...

I love the Marion Barry one. What a clown. Only he could get caught on tape smoking crack and then get re-elected to public office.

heckler said...

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
- Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark

Pretty sure that's Yogi Berr'a quote, one of the most quotable athletes of all time.