Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Confidence Builder

If you ever feel a little bit stupid, just dig this up and read it again; your confidence will be restored!

'Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,'--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC

'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

'We've gotto pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?' --Lee Iacocca
'The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.'--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.
(On September17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
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.

'We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people.'--Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.
'I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,'--Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

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

'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
'I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix .'--Dan Quayle

'Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come from overseas..'--Keppel Enderbery
'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 federal anti-smoking campaign .

'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 will be a record.'--Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

4 Random Thoughts:

terry said...

i always wonder how many of these are real quotes, as opposed to someone just making them up.

BTW, that Iacocca book pictured is quite good.

Weather Man said...

I think it is funny that he is holding a cigar and then you have the quote underneath.

I believe that these could be quite accurate... I mean, the other day, my chiropractor asked to me lie down on my stomach face up. I just looked at him with a weird look and he repeated it again. I told him that would be a neat trick.

terry said...

three out of four from the Mariners. i'll take it.

now will someone PUHLEEZ start beating the Amgels??

terry said...

BTW, does that Brooke Shields face look photoshopped to you? it's awful thin in the picture. she never was a skinny girl, even way back in The Blue Lagoon days.