Talking before Engaging Brain

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?

Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not
live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever,
then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever,
which is why I would not live forever."
-Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all
over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be
skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and
stuff."
-Mariah Carey

"Smoking kills.  If you're killed, you've lost a very important
part of your life."
-Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson
for a federal anti-smoking campaign.

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my
body."
-Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime
rates in the country."
-Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
-Philadelphia Phillies Manager Danny Ozark.

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities
in our air and water that are doing it."
-Al Gore, Vice President.

"I love California.  I practically grew up in Phoenix."
-Dan Quayle.

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves:  How much clean air do
we need?"
-Lee Iacocca

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like
Norman Einstein."
-Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback and sports analyst.

"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types
of people."
-Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.

"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
-Keppel Enderbery.

"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we
received notice that you passed away.  May God bless you. You may
reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."
-Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina.

"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they
go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next
morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
-Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman.