Archive for the ‘Money Quotes’ Category
US Army Sergeant elected Sheik in Iraq
Sheik Horn floats around the room in white robe and headdress, exchanging pleasantries with dozens of village leaders. But he is the only sheik with blonde streaks in his mustache – and the only one who attended country music star Toby Keith’s recent concert in Baghdad with fellow U.S. soldiers.
Money quote:
Some sheiks later gave him five sheep and a postage stamp of land, fulfilling some of the requirements for sheikdom. Others encouraged him to start looking for a second wife, which Horn’s spouse back in Florida immediately vetoed.
Post-Election Money Quotes
“…it’s clear the Democratic Party as currently constituted is on its deathbed. It needs reforms, and it needs them now. Quite frankly, the status quo simply won’t cut it. Howard Dean for DNC Chair. ” — Daily Kos
“I can only feel joy that the American people did not allow itself to be intimidated, and made the most sensible decision” — Vladimir Putin
“We feel strongly that our pre-election polls were accurate on virtually every state. Our predictions on many of the key battleground states like Ohio and Florida were within the margin of error. I thought we captured a trend, but apparently that result didn’t materialize.” — Pollster John Zogby
Bill Whittle writes:
It’s Bush. Thank God, it’s Bush.
There is so much to do. Not in Iran, or Iraq, or even in Washington.
We have four years to remake our society; four years to reclaim our media, our entertainment industry, our universities and our children.
Most importantly, we have four years to regain some control over who guards information.
Wil Wheaton opines:
“Apparently, my country holds a fundamentally different set of values than I thought we did, and that scares the shit out of me. I still believe that Bush is bad for America, and though I’m virtually certain that the next four years will be an absolute disaster. Not just because we have gotten four more years of the Bush agenda, but because this election has been an enthusiastic endorsement of that agenda.
I hoped I would wake up this morning to the good news that our long national nightmare was over.
It’s not over.
It’s just beginning.”
“BTW, if Michael Moore tries to eat his way out of depression, how large will he get? I mean…” — Frank gloats…
“Early in the day, a very young woman who was working as an assistant producer leaned over to me and whispered, “Are you the conservative?” I said Yes. “Don’t tell anyone,” she whispered, “but I’m on your side.” I asked whether it is tough to be a conservative at NBC. She said that she tries not to talk about it, but every once in a while a co-worker gets wind of the fact that she is a Republican. The universal response, she said, was “You should be working at Fox.” — Hindrocket from Powerline
“With a majority of the popular vote and expanded margins in the House and Senate, we’re going to see Bush Unleashed — something that will probably be much crazier than what we’ve seen over the past four years.” — Matthew Yglesias
Money Quotes
“It was so little, when I pulled it out of the bag, my eyes were as big as my head” — Dupont
“I think it’s, like, annoying because what am I going to do anyway?” — Fallon
“I’m surprised at their reluctance to concede they’re wrong” — Rooney
“This is akin to picking up a shotgun, walking drunk into a biker bar, shouting YOU GUYS ARE ALL SUCH FLAMIN’ FAGS then tripping over a chair. ” — Lileks
“A RECENT story that didn’t get nearly the attention it deserved was the New York Daily News report that 46,000 registered New York City voters are also registered to vote in Florida.” — Jacoby
“I think we were all a little ashamed of our prejudice, and started thinking that maybe Saddam Hussein was an okay guy. But we were still glad we weren’t sitting next to him.” — DY
“Please, tell the fans to quit all that booing” – Saints LB, Derrick Rogers
“They’re fat on gas” — Navias
“Only morons could uncover some of this crap because right thinking people don’t dismount their swoop while trying to call a pet going into a Krayt spawn with orange hotpants AND trying to compose a new email at the same time.” — Woods
“Sure enough, within minutes of putting on the freaky mask, I was moonwalking all over the place.” — RoG
“”I asked if they wanted to counterattack or ride this to ground and outlast it, not spending any money. (Cleland) said counterattack. So I gave them the information to do it with” — Burkett
“Avast! Do ye know what day ’tis today? It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day!” — Esmay
Money Quotes
“The movie is an utterly meaningless waste of time. There was no reason to produce it, except to make money, and there is no reason to see it, except to spend money. It is a dead zone, a film without interest, wit, imagination or even entertaining violence and special effects.” — Ebert
“You plug it in and it produces some kind of electro-wave that tricks the bone into thinking that it’s being stressed, so it puts more bone stuff there” — Brown
“Why, it’s almost as though it were signed by an entirely different individual!” — Aaron
” ‘Eye’ does not need a facelift, maybe a little Botox.” — Zalaznick
“I didn’t want to go to Disneyland because I thought it was so complicated” — Adolio Gonzales
“Nobody knows what these things are, but we have all been bitten.” — Swaro
“I’d love to see you Goth or in all black ’cause you’re a happy, peppy cheerleader” — Cleary
“Conditions are deteriorating, Dwight.” — Things hurricane reporters should say.
“The award fee is where you make your money” — Halliburton spokeswoman
“It’s obviously going to be far in excess of anything that the average guy would expect to find when he’s out walking his dog.” — Bishop
“The more basic question is how could a rabble of bloggers, in one day, provide hard core proof of forgery when major news organizations took those documents at face value?” — Currie
“This is why it doesn’t hurt if people call me a dork now. Oh, I think. You have no idea.” — Lileks
“I’m working under the assumption that what remains of the mass murderer is under a rock somewhere on the Pakistani border.” — Sullivan
“Francona would bring in a relief QB now” — Tim
“Me and the boys go on down to Jack in the Box once a week to have Dudes’ Lunch. Lately I been noticing that all the cars that go through the drive-thru order, pay, pull over and park, and a few minutes later a lady comes out with their food. What kind of a drive-thru is that?” — Roast Beef
Money Quotes
“They got really experimental towards the end of the night, particularly once the guests started pouring those sake-boxes for the cooks, who could not decline (dishonor). I think at one point somebody deep-fried my leather Raiders hat.” — Smuckles
“Why does this minivan in front of us have a spoiler?” — Yeti
“What could be better than pork and cheese and Ranch Dressing!” — She Who Will Be Obeyed.
“I made $250,000 last year, don’t call me unproductive.” — An RNC Protestor, via Esmay
“But this is far too outrageous for people to sit quietly by. It’s one thing to report selectively; it’s something completely different to write fiction and pass it off as news. The Associated Press has apparently decided to trade in its credibility with news readers and media sources in order to libel George Bush and a group of people who reacted in a most human and sympathetic fashion to the news of a political opponent’s ill health. ” — Captain Ed
“He’s a very old gorilla and he’s never felt a single bit of empathy for another living creature” — Jackson
“I just love brooches. They are so cute” — Simpson
“It’s certainly nice (that) … I don’t have to go out there and shoot a round like this just to try and make the cut” — Woods
“It appears as though the individual lost track of his altitude” — Ironically named parachute instructor, David Pancake
Money Quotes
“Angie Harmon smells of honeysuckle and cloves—her glowing skin the color of sun-baked mahogany, her voice the sultry hum of Mezcal and cigarettes and late night conversations with friends on the deck of a rented beach house. “ — Goldstein
“McCain – eh. Didn’t listen. He reminds me of Don Rickles’ brother. The smart one who went to college and never made as much money as his famous sibling, and it rankled. Oh how it rankled.” — Lileks
“Endless sniffings from an old friend of mine from college who’s ended up in this social circle, who is thoroughly taken with communist chic such as coffee shops done up in Che Guevara motifs and who uses terms like bourgeoisie and the masses and capitalist consumerist whores in casual conversation; they wear on me, somehow. And I know he’s smart, too. First-hand. It’s like watching a star athlete waste away on smack.” — Tiemann
“…Schwarzenegger had to set out the Presidential proposition like an object of wonder, like an insight slow in coming, the way a man recovering from a stroke suddenly remembers how to tie his shoelaces again, because until recently America could not think it; nor France to this day. You don’t reason with terrorists. You defeat them. “ — Wretchard
In fact, I’d really appreciate it if people stopped sending suggestions of
any kind. — Den Beste
“I don’t think I ever seen a game like that” — NY Yankees Clubhouse Boy
“We had a hamster, too. Let’s just say ours didn’t make it.” — Barbara Bush
“The left wants it both ways….they love to protest human rights abuses, but when somebody actually does something about it, they protest that too. Could it be that the left in Hollywood is basically ignorant of the causes they support and only do it for show? They’re never even remotely consistent.” — Boortz
‘Don’t be economic girlie men!” — Schwarzenegger
