Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Friday, April 24, 2009

Quotes of the Day

*and my two cents.

Zahi Hawass, Egypt's chief archaeologist, after a bust of Cleopatra and coins showing her image were found; Hawass says the discovery counters the fact that some scholars say Cleopatra was ugly:
"The finds ... indicate that Cleopatra was in no way unattractive."
*Does this profound, and oh so productive discovery mean, I shouldn't have broken my mirror, when it reckoned Cleopatra to be the fairest one of all?!

Barack Obama, affirming his unwillingness to prosecute CIA interrogators who used waterboarding on terrorism suspects during the Bush Administration:
"We must provide them with the confidence that they can do their jobs."
*Because after waterboarding one suspect 183 times, and another 80 times; it is the confidence that the CIA is lacking!

Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, on of the Taliban's recent gains in Pakistan, including gaining control over a district just 70 miles from Islamabad:
"The Pakistani government is basically abdicating to the Taliban and to the extremists."
*After 8 years of abdicating to the Bush administration, you cannot get mad at Pakistan for being spineless now. You should have thought of that when instead of providing education to Pakistanis, you figured it would be more fun to stuff their faces with weapons.

Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor facing corruption charges, on why he asked a judge to let him film a reality-TV show called I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here; the request was denied:
"I have two little girls and a mortgage to pay. Obviously, I'm looking for a new line of work."
*Now, that's a new low for a former governor. What's next, going on Fox News to discuss the financial crisis, a la Spitzer.

Neil Fees, Texas resident, on the ammunition shortage in central Texas that may be caused by fear that Obama will regulate, ban or tax guns and ammo:
"I've got a gun but no bullets."
*Now, here is a "famine" that needs our immediate attention.

You know the economy is in shambles when:
Dimmick, Chuck P.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Quotes of the Day

*and my two cents.

Fabiola Gianotti, a project leader on CERN’s particle-accelerator experiment that was successfully initiated on Sept. 10 outside Geneva, and will eventually re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang:
“I think we may have to rewrite our textbooks.”
*Why do I have a feeling Al Gore wouldn’t be too happy about this.

Warrant Buffett, billionaire investor, on the economic crisis after Lehman Brothers announced it will file for bankruptcy:
“Let’s recognize that this is a once-in-a-half-century, probably once-in-a-century type of event.”
*OMG, so our economic crisis makes us special! That makes me feel so much better. Thanks, Buffett the richest man in the world.

Jeannine Wikering, after placing third at the European pole-dancing championships:
“I think one day it should be an Olympic sport – but that will take time.”
*Yeah, only if the Olympics are being held in Amsterdam.

Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, during a peacemaking visit with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli. Washington cut off diplomatic relations with Libya after a mob sacked and burned the American Embassy in 1979:
“The United States, I’ve said many times, doesn’t have any permanent enemies.”
*In the U.S. of A, we like to change it up. We like variety. So how soon can we get our hands on your oil, Gadhafi?

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Quotes of the Day

Abdel Wahed Mohammed Al-Nur, a leader of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army, who said that at least 50 people were killed today in a Darfur refugee camp by Sudanese government troops:

"This really is a catastrophe. People are being killed while the world just watches."

Monday, August 18, 2008

Quotes of the Day

Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore's Prime Minister, in an Aug. 17 speech calling on the city-state's women to marry young and have more children to encourage population growth:
"If you wait for a career to be successful, you may miss the best ideal age for child bearing."
*Since when did South Asian aunties start writing speeches for the Singaporean Prime Minister?!

Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of State, on a promise by Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to start withdrawing troops from Georgia:
"This time I hope he means it."
*He's just not that into you, Condie. Give it up, already!

Parvez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, announcing that he will resign to avoid an impeachment:

"I hope the nation and the people will forgive my mistakes."
*What mistakes? You didn't make any mistakes. You just had the best interests at heart, when you fired the Chief Justice last year, and prolonged your own rule. The only mistake you are guilty of is not getting your roots touched up. Seriously, of all the foreign investments you claimed to have brought to Pakistan, your government couldn't ask Clairol to do business with you. Now that's what we call a serious blunder, Musharraf.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Quotes of the Day

Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistani Prime Minister, calling for President Musharraf to resign
"The era of repression is over forever. Dictatorship has become a tale of the past."
*But if you can't handle the change too well, don't worry the ubiquity of poverty still prevails. Booya!

Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, on the conflict between Russia and Georgia:
"This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechslovakia, where Russia can invade its neighbour, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it. Things have changed."
*Newsflash Russia things have changed. This is the 21st century and only the US gets to do all the invading. Seriously, too little too late, Russia.