Only in America Quotes - good reason to keep your mouth shut

poppytree Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:20 pm

1. 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.
(Yet, on September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected
as Miss America for 1995.)

2. '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

3. '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.

4. 'I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,'
--Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

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

6. '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.

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

8. 'It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the
impurities in our air and water that are doing it.'
--Al Gore, Vice President

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

10. 'We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need ?'
-Lee Iacocca

11. 'The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like
Norman Einstein.'
--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.

12. 'We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain
types of people.'
Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.

13. '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

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