Smart Mouths 66

Collected (Again) by the Staff of Magellan's Log

The price of gasoline has gone so high in Texas that women who want to run over their husbands have to car pool.
                                                                  –Ann Richards.

You know the world is off tilt, when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest basketball player is Chinese, and Germany doesn't want to go to war.
                                                                  –Charles Barkley.

The Bush family, starting with Senator Prescott Bush, father to George I, has always been a middling sort of family, undistinguished intellectually and largely ineffective politically. Nixon the Wise told Murray Kempton after Bush became president, 'There's really nothing there. He's the sort of person you appoint to things.' Now that Barbara, she's something else. Really vindictive.
                                            –Gore Vidal, interview, Talk Magazine, 2000.

They want enough rice. They don't want to be shot at. They don't want our white skins around telling them what they want.
                             –Graham Greene,
                               The Quiet American, on the Vietnamese ca. 1955.

Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. They may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give a map.
                                                                  –William James.

An ordinary photo is okay, if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed cyclops, for a split second.
                                                                  –David Hockney.

There’s good and bad in every dope.
                                        –Stan Cutler, in Best Performance by a Patsy.

To call the style chocolate-boxy, would be a serious slight to the world of confectionery illustration.
                                –Mary Wakefield, in The Spectator,
                                  on the paintings of Thomas Kinkaide.

Those who are tired of Google are tired of life.
                                                                  –Robert Fulford.

Hubris is not a shortcoming peculiar to any one constitutional form; and the inability to envisage nemesis is modern America's distinctive failing.
                               –Tony Judt, New York Review of Books, March, 2003.

Even if the war goes well, and we all pray it does, it's going to be the peace from hell. Let's try being a little gentler with one another. If you don't want to drink French wine, instead of pouring it out, why not make some bum really happy?
                                                                  –Molly Ivins (March 23 2003).

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
                                                                  –Ambrose Bierce.

The British Empire exists to protect the poor natives and to advance civilization.
                                                                  –Queen Victoria.

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