Quotable Quotes

Some quotes from some great, er...... well from some minds...


"Smoking kills.  If you're killed, you've lost a very important part
of your  life."
Brooke Shields, said to demonstrate why she should become
spokesperson for a federal antismoking 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.


On Criticism:
"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


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sign outside Mexico City's Mandinga Disco in the Hotel Emporio


"The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make
them unsafe."
Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia


"After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal,
the school department 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."
baseball great Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit
on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series