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- Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave.
- ad slogan 'Pepsi Comes Alive' as initially translated into Chinese
- I desire the Poles carnally.
- President Jimmy Carter's mistranslation in a 1977 speech in Poland
- 1. At the rise of the hand of the policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him.
2. If pedestrian obstacle your path, tootle horn melodiously. If he continue to obstacle, tootle horn vigorously and utter vocal warning such as "Hi, Hi." [...] 5. Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiously, resume step on gradually. - from an official Japanese guide for English-speaking drivers, 1936
- Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
- Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR
- I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic.
- Julian Schnabel
- My fellow astronauts...
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), beginning a speech at an Apollo 11 anniversary celebration
- Half this game is 90% mental.
- Danny Ozark, manager of the Phillies
- I've been traveling so much, I haven't had time to grow it.
- Bob Horner, Atlanta Braves third baseman, on why he hadn't grown a beard
- If we didn't have bonuses, we wouldn't have had anybody working for us.
- Drexel Burnham Lambert spokesperson, explaining why the company gave over $195 million in bonuses just before it filed for bankruptcy
- I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.
- Peggy Noonan (1950 - ), speechwriter for the Reagan administration
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