These collection of The best famous quotes and Top quotes of the years 2011:
"We now have proof that Toyota failed to live up to its legal obligations." --Ray Lahood, US Transportation Secretary, after government announced it would fine Toyota a record $16.4m for failing to alert regulators to safety problems with gas pedals on popular models like Camry and Corolla."Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, It hit 'em...Look at those dead bastards." --Recording from attack by American military helicopter on Iraqi civilians. "Are you serious?" -- Lindsay Lohan, to attorney Shawn Chapman Holley, after a judge sentenced the 24-year-old actress to 90 days in jail for violating her probation for 2007 drunk driving charge.
"The Internet's completely over...All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you." -- Prince, on his plans to withhold online distribution of his new album and instead include it, free, in British newspapers.
"For everything in life, there is always a beginning and an end. This is the tough part, the most difficult thing, when you see that it’s coming: The end." -- Seve Ballesteros, the Spanish golfer, on his fear of dying from brain cancer.
"Refudiate. English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it." -- Sarah Palin, US Republican party pin-up and creator of word 'refudiate', compares herself to Bard.
"The donkey screamed, and children cried." -- Larisa Tuchkova, police spokeswoman in southern Russia, after donkey was made parasail as part of advertising stunt - an animal-cruelty investigation ensued.
"I saw the bodies. My father-in law's was quite well preserved. I recognized his black winter coat with some holes in it." -- Mircea Oprean, son-in-law of former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, whose bodies were exhumed in attempt to confirm location of their long-disputed graves.
Quotes of the Week - July 20, 2010:
"Well, that wasn't so hard." -- @BPGlobel PR, a spoof Twitter account, on news that Gulf of Mexico oil leak may be plugged.
"Spain's name willbe on top of the world for the next four years." -- Iker Casillas, captain of Spanish soccer team, on winning 2010 World Cup.
"Can you imagine? I arrive in front of other guests, and I leave with cash? This is slander." - Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, defends himself against allegations of illegal campaign financing stemming from meals at estate of Liliane Bettencourt, heir to the L'Oréal fortune.
"We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression. The cost to the world economy and, above all, to the millions of lives blilghted by the absence of jobs, will be immense." -- Paul Krugman, Nobel prizewinning economist.
"I don't smoke, I hardly drink, I'm a nice girl, I'm a good mum. I'm not having wild sex parties with strangers, so part of me feels entitled to have some trifle." -- TV presenter Vanessa Feltz explains why she is 16st 4lb.
"It's been a while." -- Leon Panetta, CIA Director, answering question about when US last 'had good intelligence' on whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden.
"I was conceived in a Petri dish by artificial insemination. It's a horrible, clinical way to be conceived. All my life I've felt as if I'm half a person." -- Caroline Halstead, English wife and mother, whose father was an anonymous sperm donor.
"My farewell was shit. Four years ago, we were heroes. Today, we are basbards. We are shamed. It is a debacle." -- Italy's Gennaro Gattuso after their exit from the soccer World Cup.
"I think we can all conclude that Tony Hayward is not going to have a second career in p.r. consulting." -- Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff, after photos showed the BP CEO took time off to go sailing on his yacht with his son instead of dealing with Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
"We...insistently beg forgiveness from God and from the persons involved." -- Pope Benedict XVI, marking end of Roman Catholic Church's Year of the Priest celebrations with apology for years of sexual abuse of children by priests.
"What happened on Bloody Sunday strengthened the Provisional IRA, increased nationalist resentment and hostility towards the army and exacerbated the violent conflict of the years that followed." -- Britain's Lord Saville, in his report clearing the victims of any blame for the killings during a civil rights march in Derry more than 38 years ago.
"I didn't have the balls. This is not my thing." -- Christian Hernandez, 22-year-old Mexican matador arrested for breach of contract when he dropped his cape and fled from a bull midfight.
"I was sucked in by something I thought was real and I have realized it isn't, and it is not necessarily something I want to be a part of." -- Lily Allen, singer, on the lure of fame.
"The doughnut hole will be gone." -- Barack Obama, addressing senior citizens' concerns about Medicare coverage gap known as the doughnut hole, in which they are forced to pay 100% of prescription-drug costs. The government has begun distributing $250 checks to those affected to start process of closing hole by 2020.
"Fuck my victims. I carried them for 20 years and now I'm doing 150." -- Bernie Madoff, jailed Ponzie king.
"I was in the gutter at that moment." -- Sarah Ferguson, Dutchess of York, saying in interview on Oprah Winfrey Show that she had been drinking when she promised an undercover journalist access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew in exchange for more than $700,000.
"You have the honesty of Abe Lincoln and the charm of the guy who shot him." -- Dane Cook, comedian, pays tribute to departing American Idol judge Simon Cowell.
"It would be better for them if their crimes were their cause of death in this life because for them eternal damnation in the fires of hell will be greater." -- Monsignor Charles Scicluna, Vatican chief prosecutor, on pedophile priests.
"The crisis is not over. We are at the next stage. This is where we move from a private to a public debt. We socialized part of the private debt by bailing out financial institutions...But public debt is never a free lunch. Eventually We have to pay for it." -- Nauriel Roubini, the Dr. Doom of economics, who was first to predict the recession.
"Our marriage is absolutely not a business arrangement." -- Victoria Beckham hits back at reports that her marriage to David is a sham.
"These five paintings are unsellable, so thieves, sirs, you are inbeciles. Now return them." -- Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, director of Palais de Tokyo, on theft of paintings, including works by Picasso and Matisse, from Paris Museum of Modern Art.
"George drank the three Bs, a bourbon before dinner, a beer with dinner and then B and B [Brandy and Benedictine liquor], a sweet after-dinner drink. Many times all he had was a beer, but when he poured enough, he could be a bore." -- Laura Bush on her hushband's drinking days.
"No matter how this goes, the euro is likely to suffer looking ahead." -- Jane Foley, research director at Forex.com, saying that even if the European debt crisis can be contained, the euro may continue to drop in value.
"You put in cash ...and you take your gold out." -- Thomas Geissler, entrepreneur, unveiling an ATM stocked with gold bars and coins at Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi.
"The greatest persecution of the church doesn't come from enemies on the outside but is born from the sin within the church." -- Pope Benedict XVI, on church's widespread sexual-abuse scandal.
"These days nobody seems to be able to keep it in their pants or honor a commitment." -- Raquel Welch, actress, on legacy of contraceptive pill.
"I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend, but with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California, ribbing Arizona's new immigration law, in his commencement speech at Emory University in Atlanta.
"You need tough skin to be in this business. I don't have tough skin right now and I don't want it." -- Sandra Bullock taking break from acting to spend more time with adopted son.
"I'll do my fucking best." -- Lady Gaga, asked if she would cut bad language from next show.
"When the tiger gets out and starts creating damage, it's insane to blame the tiger - it's the idiot tiger keeper." -- Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway vice chariman, blames lax government regulations for Wall Street's ills.
"I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans." -- Stephen Hawking, British physicist, on consequences of aliens visiting Earth.
"Riverdale has always been a safe world for everyone." -- Jon Goldwater, co-CEO of Archie Comics, on plans to introduce Kevin Keller, an openly gay character, in September issue.
"Television has become predictable, vulgar and nasty." -- Joan Collins.
"Planes have to put up with sandstorms in Africa. The engines are designed to put up with a lot more than existed." -- Richard Branson, saying it was unnecessary to cancel 100,000 European flights because of airborne volcanic ash.
"Many women who do not dress modesty...lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes." -- Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, Iranian cleric, after severe earthquake warning in Tehran.
"I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!" -- Oprah Winfrey, on Kitty Kelley biography claims that the man who raised her is not her biological dad.
"They're better on his desk than on my chest." -- Sharon Osbourne, on plan to remove breast implants and give them to hubby Ozzy for paperweights.
"We're not snooty, stuck-up, malevolent, malignant creatures, as we're so often portrayed. We're actually kind of cool and hip." -- Helen Mirren on Brits.
"People have to throw away this absurd Vera Wang shopping list which says of a man that he has to earn £100,000 a year, that he has to be able to cut down a tree, play the Spanish guitar, make love all night and cook me a cheese souffle. This is a ridiculously impossible wish list." -- Writer Joanna Trollope.
"There is no denying the fact that the worldwide system of covering up cases of sexual crimes committed by clerics was engineered by the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Cardinal Ratzinger." -- Hans Kung, Swiss theologian, on role of Pope Benedict XVI in clerical abuse scandals.
"I think the Vatican - they've got more to talk about than the Beatles." -- Ringo Starr, on Vatican newspaper editorial praising band on 40th anniversary of breakup.
"I used to have a mammogram every year and I just let it slide. I thought: 'I'll get to it'. I didn't realize it had been four years. I would encourage women to have mammograms if at all they can afford it." -- Martina Navratilova on finding out she has breast cancer.
I don't think there's any point now in taking back the name. It would be too artificial, and the fact that I have to explain it to you is a permanent rebuke to the morality of the Victorians for putting him in prison just for being a homosexual. -- Merlin Holland, grandson of Oscar Wilde, on why he will never re-claim his famous name, changed by his grandmother after the writer was imprisoned.
"We make our good very similar to cocaine now." -- Gene-Jack Wang, doctor with US Department of Energy lab, on study confirming fatty foods may be addictive.
"The Christian Brothers were fairly mangled fellows in Navan. Some men speak highly of them. Unfortunately I never saw that. I just remember the brutality. The Paddtbats, the straps that would fly out of the soutane like vipers' tongues, the beatings amidst the prayers - whack!" --Actor Pierce Brosnan on his abuse by religious brothers while a boy at school.
"Of all the sucky movies, mine is the suckiest." -- J. D. Shapiro, screenwriter on Battlefield Earth, which was recently dubbed worst movie of the decade.
"The concepts of man or woman don't fit me." -- Norrie May-Welby, who became first person in world to be classified genderless after Australian officials altered May-Welby's birth cert to read "neuter".
"There are compelling reasons to believe that Israel was responsible for the misuse of British passports." --David Miliband, British Foreign Secretary, on expulsion of Israeli diplomat over Mossad's alleged involvement January in assassination of Hamas leader.
"This is a big fucking deal." -- US vice-president Joe Biden to Barack Obama at signing into law of the historic US healthcare program.
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