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| [O'Neal didn't let the rebuke go unnoticed.] He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball, ... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out. | | Shaquille O'Neal | |
| [On his breakthrough 1977 album] Let's Get Small, ... There's a million people onstage and everything's moving real fast and you can't understand a word they say but it doesn't matter and you just sit there and go, 'Wow! Look at the (breasts)! I'll bet there's 57 (breasts) up there!' | | Steve Martin | |
| [On his deathbed:] Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved | | Mark Twain | |
| [On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being. | | Harlan Ellison | |
[on Michael Jackson]
Honey, you gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord Of The Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species. | | Robin Williams | |
| [On peace-making, he described Sharon and Arafat as leaders looking down a long hallway, with a settlement at the end.] They have the keys, ... it's going to take some time before they get back to negotiations. | | Colin Powell | |
| [One May 1970 cable marked] For Confidential Eyes Only ... feed over 6,000 enemy soldiers for a full year at the full ration. | | Henry Kissinger | |
| [One recent survey says,] people are tired of news, ... Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. | | Cicero | |
| [Paul Drury, a consultant for conservation group English Heritage, which also opposes the mayor's plan, has said that placing an] informal, small-scale statue ... would be a major and awkward change in the narrative of the square. | | Nelson Mandela | |
| [Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be seen/But seen too oft, familiar with her face/We first endure, then pity, then embrace. ... I began as Snow White but I drifted. | | Mae West | |
| [Playing golf is] like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture. | | Winston Churchill | |
| [Powell is one of the nation's most respected war veterans, and the placement of his address on education, race relations and the expansion of social and economic opportunity would seem expertly timed. With the opening of the convention's third session on Tuesday evening, members of the GOP faithful will shift gears to consider the theme] Strength and Security with A Purpose: Safe in our Homes and in the World, ... Opportunity with a Purpose. | | Colin Powell | |
| [Pretending is indeed the Washington game. Pretend independence, for instance. Recall House Speaker Sam Rayburn's attributed standard greeting to new Democrat members of Congress, per:] Remember, to get along, go along. ... There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. | | Will Rogers | |
| [Referring to why the ghost town is built so far away] Because they're stupid! That's why everybody does anything | | Homer Simpson | |
| [Rudolph Valentino was] what is commonly called for want of a better name, a gentleman. In brief, Valentino's agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of intolerable vulgarity. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| [Ruling the] Dilbert ... You can't take a vacation. For 11 years, I've done nothing more than go to a wedding for a day, or something like that. | | Scott Adams | |
| [San Francisco] . . . the city that never was a town. | | Will Rogers | |
| [Seaton Town came up against an] uncompromising ... When we got the ball down and played we looked quite good and 'won' the second half in terms of territorial advantage. | | George Moore | |
| [Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he had read a summary of the New Yorker article and stressed that all war prisoners should be treated humanely.] I haven't read the article and I don't know anything about the substance of the article, ... I have just seen a quick summary of it. So I will have to yield to the Defense Department to respond. | | Colin Powell | |
