"They need a little more oatmeal in their cookie and a little less 
testosterone."

...


"You're either pregnant or you're not pregnant," Sen. Dave Bisbee said. "Rarely will that be a typographical 
error."

...

"I had to go into safe territory," he said, "like incest and bestiality."

...

In the statement, university officials said they were placing the band on
"infinite provisional status" and appointing a university official as
interim director of the group.

...

"You cannot casually do anything with firearms in Canada. There is a very
stringent process in place to control who qualifies to get a firearm ...
unfortunately people fall through the cracks ... you can't legislate or
control against insanity," Hagen said.


...

"Unfortunately, these people were very diligent in filming their 
activities," Sortland said of a viewing task detectives have found 
unpleasant.

...

"In an abundance of caution we decided to take all measures to check it 
out," said police Lt. Mike Biel. 

...

"It is a disaster, or at least a great disappointment,'' said A.J. Moser, 
a retired engineer from Long Beach.

...

"She acted very cool and levelheaded. We don't normally see that in our 
profession," said Gwinnett County Police Officer Darren Moloney. 

...

The zoo's publicist, Sue Allen, said, "Those of us in Cleveland would say: 
'Only in San Francisco.' "

...

Tatro said when her 13-year-old daughter came home from the first day of 
school in January, when the students began wearing the tags, she had waved 
the tag in her fist and said, "Look at this. I'm a grocery item. I'm a 
piece of meat. I'm an orange."

...

 "Everything was swept away, our houses, boats, bows and arrows, spears 
and our stock of whisky," said Jirake, near a hospital in Port Blair where 
he was rushed December 28 for treatment for stress.

 "We can make new bows and arrows but we will have to buy our whisky," the 
king told AFP and a local reporter in a rare interview arranged by tribal 
supporters.

...


 During an emergency meeting Thursday, County Commissioner Ronda Storms 
referred to venue owner Clear Channel Entertainment when she said: "A bane 
upon them; may the worms of your avarice consume your intestines, Clear 
Channel."

...

 "We're being cautiously optimistic, which is better than freaking out, to 
be honest with you," says Julia Andersen.

...

The administration plays on this animosity. In his recent New York Times 
Magazine cover story about Bush's faith-based governing, Ron Suskind 
quotes Bush's media advisor Mark McKinnon. After accusing Suskind of 
thinking Bush is an idiot, McKinnon goes on to say that "all of you do, up 
and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern 
Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, 
you're outnumbered two to one by folks in the big, wide middle of America, 
busy working people who don't read The New York Times or Washington Post 
or The L.A. Times. And you know what they like? They like the way he walks 
and the way he points, the way he exudes confidence. They have faith in 
him. And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's 
good for us. Because you know what those folks don't like? They don't like 
you!" 

...

Speaking on "The McLaughlin Group" the weekend after George W. Bush's 
victory, panelist Lawrence O'Donnell, a former Democratic Senate staffer, 
noted that blue states subsidize the red ones with their tax dollars, and 
said, "The big problem the country now has, which is going to produce a 
serious discussion of secession over the next 20 years, is that the 
segment of the country that pays for the federal government is now being 
governed by the people who don't pay for the federal government."

A shocked Tony Blankley asked him, "Are you calling for civil war?" To 
which O'Donnell replied, "You can secede without firing a shot." 

...

Cleveland Indians pitcher Kyle Denney was hit in the leg by a bullet that 
pierced the team's bus Wednesday night, but he was not seriously hurt, 
perhaps thanks to white cheerleading boots he was wearing as part of a 
hazing ritual.

...

She explains, "The insurance company on films won't let you do those 
things. They don't like you to do sports where you might break all your 
limbs and potentially your neck."

...

 "It's not an orgy, but it is socially vigorous"

...

I still haven't gotten over the fact that there are human beings with
PhDs who were born after Star Wars came out.  I can't quite come to
accept it.

...

Microsoft has also managed to upset women and entire countries. A Spanish- 
language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked 
users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," 
because of an unfortunate error in translation.

...

"Let me put it this way," said Sgt. Judy Brumfield, "after I handcuffed 
Mr. Steen, he asked me to make him a cup of tea. That's when I said, 
'Whoa! Something's not right in Who-ville.' "

...

"He was screaming and yelling. It was very unpleasant," said Alf 
Floernes, owner of the restraurant in the southern town of Kristiansand, 
by telephone. "It was supposedly some sort of art. If that is art, I'm a 
truck."

...

 "They try to land on the water, but it's asphalt and it's `Bam! That 
doesn't feel so good,"' said Sandy Cate, director of the Arizona Game and 
Fish Department's wildlife center at Adobe Mountain in north Phoenix.

...

Cheney shot back an obscenity. He later confirmed to Fox News his use of 
the obscenity and said he felt better after saying it.

...

"The only people that never have dead cows are people who don't own them," 
said Ralph Velde, owner of Velde Dairy near Arvin.

...

The teenager's family in Nablus identified him as Hussam Abdo, and his 
brother, Hosni, said "he has the intelligence of a 12-year-old."

...


"Privacy is really the handmaiden of the First Amendment," said Ann 
Brick, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of 
Northern California.

...

"I am not trying to be petty here, but it is a big deal ... That semicolon
is a big deal," said San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren.

...

 "Bears are bears, and the sooner we treat them as bears instead of humans 
in a bear suit it will be less dangerous," said Tom Smith, a biologist at 
the Alaska Science Center.

...

"I'm Saddam Hussein," the man with the scruffy beard said in English
when U.S. troops found him in a dirt hole. "I'm the president of Iraq
and I'm willing to negotiate."

"President Bush sends his regards," they replied.

...

"Gonzalez has gotten to the runoff without being known,'' Nolan said.
"It's the excitement and the danger of the unknown. It's unsafe sex,
politically speaking.''

...

"Developers don't want to make a bad name for themselves," Enderle said.
"They don't want to go off and kill living beings. That can't feel good."

...

The company seems to revel in pushing the limits. In a letter to Santa 
published in the now-pulled catalog, the company asks "forgiveness from 
some of the people we've offended over the years," including the Catholic 
League, thong-wearing girls, the National Organization for Women, vegans, 
Mrs. Claus and the impotent." 

...

"It's a huge problem," said Brewster Kahle, digital librarian at the 
Internet Archive in San Francisco. "The average lifespan of a Web page 
today is 100 days. This is no way to run a culture."

...

"My ankles are getting a little numb, going through the deep stuff," she
said. "But I feel this is what I should be doing right now. Biology
doesn't seem that important."

...

 "God often does his best work right after a crucifixion," said 
Vision America President Rick Scarborough at a press conference where he 
announced the petition drive.

...

 There will be no great social transformation if cell phones are turned 
off, instant messenger programs shut down or blog comments disabled to 
halt the flow of offers for online porn or cheap drugs.

...

 Long-shot Democratic candidate says his only vice is being 'a member of 
Congress' 

...

But critics say that the Army's co-optation of hip-hop in its streetwise 
campaign is misleading, because it markets a life-changing and possibly 
life-threatening commitment as a fun, cool consumer choice.

 ...

What if a pilot sneezes? 
"Don't sneeze," Lt. Cmdr. Dan "Dino" Martin, who flies the No. 5 jet, said 
Thursday. 

...

"I find it romantic bearing his illegitimate child and living next door." 

...

"A body part when it's up against a plastic cup isn't going to go 
'clink,'" said Tom Madigan, interim assistant director of the Lubbock 
County adult probation office.

...

"I wanted to see how he was doing, I wanted to hold his hand, I wanted to 
go back there and tell him little boy stuff like keep your head up," 
Jackson said. "It was totally scary. This guy is lying there unconscious, 
this is not the way it's supposed to go down."

...

"I think it's safe to say that the National Endowment for the Arts and the 
Department of Defense have never before been mentioned in the same 
sentence," said Dana Gioia, NEA chairman, in a statement announcing the 
plan. "We're delighted to make cultural history."

...

"Maybe people think someone like myself is a prude, but I'm not," she 
said. "But, I've raised four children and moved to this so-called family 
area only to be totally, totally disgusted." 

...

"He valued sex and money above honor and dignity," said lead prosecutor 
Capt. Annice Barber, who had sought an 18-month sentence. 

...

Depp said he wanted his two children, ages 1 and 4, to experience the 
United States "like it's a kind a toy . a broken toy maybe. Investigate a 
little bit, check it out, get this feeling and then get out." 

...

"You don't know who you're standing next to and it really doesn't matter 
as long as they don't smell." 

...

"It never occurred to us that someone would be sick enough to do this," 
said Michael Cleveland, editor of The Cabinet Press.

...

"You people are so messed up it is just beyond description," he told bill supporters. 

...

I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with 
a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out. 

...

"And what about First Amendment rights?" Tasto asked. "Is there no freedom 
of bark?"

...

Brenda Edwards, associate director of NCI's surveillance research program:
"What was reported last year was not only high, it was extreme even among 
the high ones. Now it's more in the high area, but not so unusually high." 

...

"Militarism makes me sick," said Don Abbott, a Contra Costa College 
journalism student who headed the group. "Puking is the most disgusting 
display of emotion that is still legal. We've gotten flack from other 
protesters, but we are past trying to appeal to people's sensibilities." 

...

"You never know. He's nuts," said Dumke, Ed Smart's sister. "This guy's 
probably involved in polygamy." 

...

"She had no contact with family, friends and lived, literally behind the 
veil, so to speak," said Rick Ross, executive director of the Ross 
Institute in Jersey City, N.J.

...

"She was not fully clothed. She was in a state of ... she was naked," 
Bellmore said. 

...

Abercrombie and Fitch also came under fire for marketing sexually 
suggestive thong underwear to girls as young as 10. "It's not appropriate 
for a 7-year-old, but it is appropriate for a 10-year-old," a spokesperson 
said. 

...

Donohue's comment: "Artists. California. Alcohol. That's a bad mix." 

...

"Our concern was that this is unidentified dirt," Maxwell said. "People 
are going to be breathing this dirt." 

...

"I'm considered government property," she says. "I can get in trouble for 
getting a sunburn, for cutting my hair the wrong way, or for getting 
pierced. But when my husband was battering my body, they didn't want to 
get involved." 

...

Politically motivated ransom demands are rare for stolen artworks, said
Anna Kisluk, a spokeswoman for the Art Loss Register, an organization that
tracks stolen art works.

...

"I thought anybody that's laughing about 9-11, I know they have that 
right, but there's something wrong with them," Stone told Fox. 

"I appreciate someone like her with the courage to do it," said neighbor 
Eric Finch. "For anyone to sit around and joke over a cup of coffee about 
a couple of thousand people being killed, they should be prosecuted just 
for that." 

...

"It's unusual for someone to end up in the bay after a traffic accident," said 
California Highway Patrol Officer Shawn Chase. 

...


"It's like any other addiction," Elizabeth Woolley said last week. "Either
you die, go insane or you quit. My son died." (Of her son's addiction to 
EverQuest.)

...

"You have to wonder. Didn't they know this wouldn't work out?" Deputy 
Kenneth Holley MOORE HAVEN, Fla. 

...

"I've learned more about cow parts and human parts in the past two weeks 
than I  cared to," said Police Chief Larry Thoren. HASTINGS, Neb. 

...

"Remember your army loves you," said the soldier, who gave his name as 
Sgt. Diaz. 

...

"I know there is an enormous amount of interest as to whether or not this 
little girl was sexually assaulted before her death..." San Diego District 
Attorney Paul Pfingst.