"I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness."
- Alicia Silverstone, Actress
"You guys line up alphabetically by height."
- Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
- Britney Spears
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
- Charles De Gaulle, former French President
"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago"
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President
"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President
"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
"Sit by the homely girl, you'll look better by comparison."
- Debra Maffett, Miss America 1983
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: "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
"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
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with law."
---David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations
that he failed to pay his taxes
"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.
"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of
my body."
---Winston Bennett, Univ. of KY basketball forward
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
---Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
---Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
"Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One
word and one word only: Super Bowl."
-Bill Peterson, football coach
"The world is more like it is now then it ever has before."
-Dwight Eisenhower
"If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching
television by candlelight."
-George Gobel
I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to."
-Linda Evangelista, Supermodel
"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from
overseas."
-Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery
"I have a God-given talent. I got it from my dad."
-Julian Wakefield, Missouri basketball player
"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."
[on Lennox Lewis] -- Mike Tyson
"I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all
the kids to copulate me."
-Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model
"I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever
comes first."
-New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the
upcoming season
"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like
Norman Einstein."
-Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann 1996
"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes."
-Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps
a color photo of himself above his locker
"I can't really remember the names of the clubs
that we went to."
-Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon during
his visit to Greece