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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Indian proverb
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. " - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada." - Britney Spears
640 Kilobytes of computer memory ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates, 1981
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner. - Lynda Montgomery
Men don't care what's on TV. They care about what else is on TV." - Jerry Seinfeld
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
- Albert Einstein
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." Albert Einstein
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain
Reader, suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself. - Mark Twain
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schultz
"A woman's body is a work of art. A man's body is a utilitarian. It's for gettin' around. It's like a Jeep." - Elain on Seinfeld, on why men shouldn't walk around naked.
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. - David Letterman
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright
"I don't read books, but I have friends who do." -Presidential Candidate George W. Bush
DAN QUAYLE
Take a breath, Al... Inhale." - Vice President Dan Quayle politely cutting off Senator Al Gore during the VP Debate in Atlanta, 10/13/92
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that word is "to be prepared". - Vice President Dan Quayle, 12/6/89
I believe we are on an irreversible trend
toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. - Vice President Dan
Quayle, 5/22/89
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and
the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could
converse with those people - Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
The future will be better tomorrow. - Dan
Quayle
'That Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't
he?' - Al Gore, June 15, 1998 to CHICAGO BULL fans.
Public speaking is very easy. - Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in 10/88
I am not part of the problem. I am a
Republican. - Vice President Dan Quayle
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our
air and water that are doing it. - Dan Quayle, regarding pollution
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!-- Senator Dan Quayle, 9/15/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92, The New Yorker, 10/10/88, p.102)
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is `to be prepared'.-- Senator Dan Quayle, 9/2/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 12/6/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the -- to the back!-- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, 3/23/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92) Also reported by Reuters, 5/2/90
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.-- Senator Dan Quayle, 8/17/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
-- Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while speaking to the United Negro College Fund, 5/9/89 This gem has been added to Bartlett's `Familiar Quotations'. (reported in Esquire, 8/92) (reported in the NY Times, 12/9/92)
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.-- Senator Dan Quayle, US News and World Report (10/10/88)
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.-- Vice President Dan Quayle, Hawaii, 4/25/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.-- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing the 20th anniversary celebration of the moon landing, 7/20/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
Bobby Knight told me this: ``There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.'' In other words a good offense wins.-- Vice President Dan Quayle after the San Francisco earthquake, 10/19/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
-- Senator Dan Quayle, in a speech to the City Club of Chicago, comparing the offensive capabilities of the Warsaw Pact with the defensive system of NATO, 9/8/88 (reported in Esquire,
miscellaneous quotes
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Vice President Al Gore:
"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and
child. I was always a Republican at heart"