Aug. 12th, 2004
They are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
- Dr Johnson's opinion of Americans
Booksellers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
- Goethe
- I had the audience glued to their seats.
- How clever of you to think of it.
- Actor Dustin Farnum and critic Oliver Herford
I found really nothing wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
- Critic Clifton Fadiman, on Gertrude Stein
- Whatever possessed you to be born in a place like Lowell, Massachusetts?
- I wished to be near my mother.
- A snob, and James Whistler
He looks like a dwarf who's been dipped in a bucket of pubic hair.
- Boy George, about Prince
I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.
- Beethoven
He looked like a half-melted rubber bulldog.
- Critic John Simon, of Walter Matthau
A lewd vegetarian.
- Kingsley on Shelley
... thinks that Roe v Wade are two ways to cross the Potomac.
- Pat Schroeder on Dan Quayle
... about as sexy as a pissing toad.
- Truman Capote on Mick Jagger
... so dumb he thinks Cheerios are doughnut seeds.
- Jim Hightower, about poor Dan Quayle again
The Secret Service is under orders that, if President Bush is shot, to shoot Quayle.
- Senator John Kerry, 1988
(This book needs less Howard Stern. He's never funny. He sounds like someone you're embarrassed to overhear whining to a friend in the next bathroom stall.* Joan Rivers is less annoying but equally boring.)
* Wholly original.
- Dr Johnson's opinion of Americans
Booksellers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
- Goethe
- I had the audience glued to their seats.
- How clever of you to think of it.
- Actor Dustin Farnum and critic Oliver Herford
I found really nothing wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
- Critic Clifton Fadiman, on Gertrude Stein
- Whatever possessed you to be born in a place like Lowell, Massachusetts?
- I wished to be near my mother.
- A snob, and James Whistler
He looks like a dwarf who's been dipped in a bucket of pubic hair.
- Boy George, about Prince
I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.
- Beethoven
He looked like a half-melted rubber bulldog.
- Critic John Simon, of Walter Matthau
A lewd vegetarian.
- Kingsley on Shelley
... thinks that Roe v Wade are two ways to cross the Potomac.
- Pat Schroeder on Dan Quayle
... about as sexy as a pissing toad.
- Truman Capote on Mick Jagger
... so dumb he thinks Cheerios are doughnut seeds.
- Jim Hightower, about poor Dan Quayle again
The Secret Service is under orders that, if President Bush is shot, to shoot Quayle.
- Senator John Kerry, 1988
(This book needs less Howard Stern. He's never funny. He sounds like someone you're embarrassed to overhear whining to a friend in the next bathroom stall.* Joan Rivers is less annoying but equally boring.)
* Wholly original.