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quotes from sports, political and other well-known figures We all live under the same sky, but we don't have the same horizon. - Konrad Adenaver Save the environment. Play more guitar. - Lita Ford Think as you will and speak as you think. - Michael Gartner, president NBC News Women fake orgasm because men fake foreplay. - comedian Mike Dugan Our committment to them must equal their committment to their country. - George Bush while President 1.29.91 Soldiers are the last to want war because they're the first to die. - General MacArthur Fuck it! Put it in the middle! - Joe Elliott of Def Leppard 10.10.88 in Chapel Hill NC Men show their character by nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable! - Goethe The words of the wise seem foolish to the ignorant. - Eurepides A place is yours when you know where all the roads go. - Stephen King The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. - Samuel Johnson There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands. - John Cougar Mellencamp That which you cannot give away, you do not possess. It possesses you. - Ivern Ball Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? - Marcel Marceau Every good band was a good garage band. - Alice Cooper To secure peace is to prepare for war. - Metallica I'm Mother Theresa and I'm Charles Manson. I'm the Preamble to the Constitution and I'm a vibrator ad in the back of Hustler Magazine. - comedian on Evening at the Improv You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. - Barbara Bush A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. - Alistair Cooke Have you seen my cavalry? - Robert E. Lee It's not what you've got but what you give. It's not the life you chose but the life you live. - Tesla Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long. If you're going my way, I want to drive it all night long. - Tom Cochran in "Life is A Highway" Don't shake my tree. - Def Leppard in "Let's Get Rocked" Passion is the sexiest thing you can see in someone. - Cindy Crawford Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. - Fyodor Dostoyevski All art aspires to a condition of creating an impact, whether commercial or idealogical. - Amy Newman You're dangerous coz you're honest. - U2 Ya know, I think I opened up the door to my world a bit too wide. - comedian Jeff Shilling Better class of enemy. - Earl Pitts Still 'round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. - J.R.R. Tolkien Paint it orange and use it as a cone. - tee shirt worn by Joe Elliott of Def Leppard I'm checking the basement for pods. These people frighten me! - comedian Randy Levine I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying it's so. - comedian Will Durst If the phone is not ringing, it's me. - Jimmy Buffet Now-ish. - Phil Collen of Def Leppard in answer to being asked when he was leaving I'm gonna race some cat to bed. - Mott the Hoople This is the cracker box I come from. - Brett Butler I'm not background to your life. - comedian Steven Wright Our evolution is lying around loose and we need somewhere to put it. - P.J. O'Rourke Dick-fear. - George Carlin Pack your shit, folks. - George Carlin This just crossed the weird frontier. - George Carlin Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling of emotion. - Agatha Christie Never go to a doctor whose office plants are dying. - Ann Landers If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. - Marva Collins Love is a babe. - William Shakespeare A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. - Abba Eban When morning breaks on a New Year, it holds the mystery of the unknown. We dare to dream of shining plans accomplished, of great goals reached, all before we've even been there. It's time for renewal and adventure. We resolve that this year will find us better than the last. Look now! The sky changes from dark to gray to pink to gold. Here comes the sun! - Esther York Burkholder The true role of management is to make risk-taking possible. Executives can't order their staffs to be creative -- they have to provide the conditions where creativity flourishes. Such conditions include strong staff morale, the feeling that someone is listening, and the conviction that good work will be rewarded. - Edwin Diamond If that was all the hoaring, then I can have the cigarette with you. - Carrie Fisher I'm a sucker for symbolic gestures. - columnist Bonnie Harris All the world's a candy store. He's been trick-or-treating. - Paula Abdul in "Cold Hearted" You take sandpaper to my butt and throw alcohol on it and I'm going to scream. - Jack Parnell 6.23.95 You must be careful each time you step out of your door, because your front walk is really a road, and the road leads ever onward. If you aren't careful, you're apt to find yourself simply swept away, a stranger in a strange land with no clue as to how you got there. - J.R.R. Tolkien You've got to take a great big swim in Lake You. - comedian Dana Gould ...a launching pad for Anywhere, USA. - comedian Tommy Sledge Let's talk about sedatives. - Greg Kinnear referring to Susan Powter Waiting for the Love Bus. - comedian Rich Hall Redundant prepositions are chickweed in the prose garden. - James J. Kilpatrick Rushmore. Party of 4. - comedian If the feeling drops out of your voice, would you kindly pick it up? - the band Live in the song Blue Done and dusted. - Rick Savage of Def Leppard Blaming Ronald Reagan for the country's problems is like blaming Ronald McDonald for a bad cheeseburger. Neither of them runs the company. - comedian Bobcat Goldwaite 1987 Your body is not you. Your mind and spirit must take over. - Christopher Reeve The car alarm is the New York equivalent of the cricket. - comedian If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible. - Frances Bacon There are times when we cannot see one step ahead of us, but five years later we are eating and sleeping somewhere. - Chrysis Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. - Carlo Goldoni Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning ot the day of success. - Leigh Mitchell Hodges Once you let optimism in the door, all kinds of possibilities take over. - Linda Sunshine We have no future, but we could have a great present. - Linda Sunshine Don't let this turn into another one of life's lessons that I needed to learn. I'm so tired of growing as a person. - Linda Sunshine Let your soul be your pilot. - Sting The best day of my life is when I manage a winning game. The second best day of my life is when I manage a losing game. - L.A. Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda They're riggin' me to 'splode! - Jim Carrey on the set of the Mask ...dirt road smart. - Jeff Foxworthy Sometimes it's the library and sometimes it's the mall. - Director of the Center for Teaching at the Univ. of Iowa Tom Rocklin, about the internet and education You can only do what's in front of you a little piece at a time. - Mel Gibson Will somebody please turn off the floor? - Chris Rock Get them a magazine rack because they have a lot of issues. - Jeanine Garafolo Although the past does not repeat itself, it DOES rhyme. - Mark Twain Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for. - Charles Mayes There are many lanes on the road to addiction. - comedian Mark Lindholm on Bob & Tom Adventure is a plan gone wrong. - Richard Evelyn Byrd If DNA were ivy... - Bob & Tom Show Heart power is stronger than horsepower. - H.J. Heinz Why say it in one word when you can say it in ten? - Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on Storytellers Nature elevates the soul. - Elizabeth Nay He ain't no Dennis Bonvie. - Pittsburgh Post Gazette article about Jaromir Jagr The only thing that can console one without money is extravagance. - Oscar Wilde Perfect is tough to compete against. - Gary Thorne in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals in hockey 5.22.01 The kill of victory, the agony of dead meat. - Freddy Krueger 10.22.88 You have to listen with your eyes to this guy. - George Carlin on Dennis Miller Live 6.2.01 When you're born, you get a ticket to the freakshow. - George Carlin on Dennis Miller Live 6.2.01 I've never done herion, I don't recommend herion, but it hasn't hurt my record collection. - Bill Maher on his HBO Special 6.6.01 Only on drugs do we base the policy on what the losers do. - Bill Maher on his HBO Special 6.6.01 Men are only as loyal as their options. - Bill Maher on his HBO Special 6.6.01 Women can't keep complaining about men until they show better taste in them. - Bill Maher on his HBO Special 6.6.01 I am made of me. - Bill Maher on his HBO Special 6.6.01 God doesn't write books. - Bill Maher on his HBO Special referring to the Bible For every Pacino, there's still a DeNiro. - L.L. Cool J. We made our first album, which went cardboard. - Tom Johnston about the Doobie Brothers Pining for hockey season. - sportscaster about baseball fans I always believed in Santa Claus until he asked me for my autograph. - Brooke Shields Tragedy always warps our sense of time. - reporter Jay Schadler Hell was on a hill. - reporter Jay Schadler about Gettysburg An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind. - Arun Ghandi My thoughts produce no good for anyone if my actions do not speak loud enough for my thoughts and feelings to be heard. - Jason Dundr in a paper on photograph exhibit on lynchings in America. Whatever happened to crazy? - Chris Rock on his HBO special A man is basically as faithful as his options. - Chris Rock on his HBO special Way past Robitussin. - Chris Rock on his HBO special I'm growing him to be a drummer. - drummer from Creed on his son Ference went to school. He's learning from the Kaspar Man. - Mike Lange, Pittsburgh Penguins announcer 02.28.02 You can't be 23 before you're 20. - Hockey commentator 4.18.02 There are a lot of players on this Padres team. - baseball commentator Of the five shots, eight were dangerous. - Bill Clement on ESPN 4.23.02 after a flurry of shots on goaltender Patrick Roy It hurts if you're the Kings. - hockey commentator 4.29.02 Livin' off the fat of the land, and Ramen noodles. - Fox News' Shepherd Smith 5.13.02 He's the tent pole. - Fox News' Shepherd Smith about Bill O'Reily 5.13.02 Is it just me or are cats drag queens? - Robin Williams on his HBO special 7.14.02 There's a really small space between the cutting edge and the chopping board. - Phil Collen of Def Leppard on the Historia DVD The higher the hair, the closer to God. - Pam Tillis on 40 Greatest Women of Country Music on CMT I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still. - Ashton Kutcher, actor Be the water, not the rock. - Jeremy Hunter I said elves, not Elvises! - Kermit the Frog If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there. - George Harrison album I've never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Thoreau True love is hard, like math. - Sheppard Smith on Fox News 2.25.03 I'll take an ounce of Rudy Guliani over a pound of Michael Moore. - James Woods on Leno 3.27.03 I'm as pure as the driven slush. - Tallulah Bankhead I've had a lovely evening. Unfortunately, this wasn't it. - Groucho Marx Get your head out of the sand and smell the Trade Towers burning. - Charlie Daniels in an open letter to Hollywood, March 2003, after the start of the war in Iraq I gotta be a bigger celebrity. - comedian Craig Shoemaker on Bob & Tom 4.11.03 Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrowmindedness. - Mark Twain To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. - Robert Louis Stevenson Someday I might be different, but it hasn't happened yet. - Viggo Mortensen, Don't Tell Me What To Do It's hard to hear when you're busy saying what you want to say. - "Homesick" by Train There are no solos in the drum circle. - Steve Penhollow, The Journal Gazette 6.6.03 You don't even have to take the picture, but you have the camera with you, it's in the car, you get in the habit of looking. Whether it's writing or painting or just having a conversation, you're exercising those observation muscles more often and more thoroughly. - Viggo Mortensen I wrote and took photographs and drew and all that long before I even thought about becoming an actor. They're all part of the same thing - efforts to notice what's happening, efforts at being here, being present. - Viggo Mortensen Every once in a while, you get a phone call about a movie in New Zealand. - Viggo Mortensen It was an arranged marraige, put together by drugs and alcohol. - comedian Tom Pappas The legend that will live a lunch time. - Eric Idle on VH1's Greatest Funny Moments in Music Chilly ain't never been cool. - George Carlin Don't get stuck on stupid. - 3-Star General on the news regarding Hurricane Katrina relief efforts Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian, and it's all organized by the Swiss. I'm as pure as the driven slush. - Tallulah Bankhead from the Devils Dictionary website I've had a lovely evening. Unfortunately, this wasn't it. - Groucho Marx from the Devils Dictionary website The good, the bad, and the puppy. - Pixelgirl website ...the abyss of unrestrained self-expression. - online article by Pete Humes at Punchline I'm naming a sandwich after you. You are delicious. - Inside Schwarz 9.27.01 Big things start with a little ideas. - Bono |