Famous Quotes and Proverbs

«Enough candy, now eat your peas.»

«[Doof, US: In his column today (] Syntax, Disassembled ... How can these people -in the Bush administration] be so comically doofus with the language . . . .»

«They saw that there was no other hand in this story.»

«It just seems so odd, so surreal,»

«It just seems so odd, so surreal. I'm still like, 'I don't believe it.' When I saw it flash on the television -- 1961 to 2004 -- I was just like, 'I'm not going to try to fight back any more tears. I'm just going to cry.»

«As visual metaphors go, it was a lavishly gilded lily of an image, a hanging curveball across the plate, a George Tenet-style slam-dunk: A weary President Bush, trying to escape a news conference in Beijing on Sunday, strides away from the microphone to a pair of locked doors, which he pulls and tugs in vain. No exit, the image screamed. No way out. Of course, George Bush will inevitably get out of the mess he has made -- he leaves office in three years and two months, not that anyone's counting. But the rest of us will be left with his handiwork: crushing national debt, rising economic inequality, a poisoned political atmosphere and, oh, yes, the war in Iraq. We're the ones trapped in the dark with no exit sign in sight.»

«Nobody is interested in your contrition. They are only interested in your admission.»

«We had high hopes going into that year, we really did. We had a coach who had won the Super Bowl. But they forgot he would need a little talent.»

«They say stats are for losers and I guess that's what it was. Because we were concerned about where we ranked on defense because if we didn't have something to motivate us, we would have been as lackluster as our offense.»