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- 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
- Captial punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
- Orrin Hatch, Republican senator
- I want to gain 1,500 or 2,000 yards, whichever comes first.
- George Rogers, Saints running back
- If crime went down 100%, it would still be 50 times higher than it shoud be.
- Councilman John Bowman commenting on the high crime in Washington
- The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come - it now is - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.
- Reverend Peter Marshall, on being elected Chaplain of the U. S. Senate in January 1947
- [He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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