Quotations

Q: If you could live forever, would you and why?
A: 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 America 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 lost a very important part of your life.

Brooke Shields as trying to become spokesperson for a federal antismoking campaign

We are going to turn this team around 360 degree.

Jason Kidd (about the Dallas Mavericks)

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

Hillary Clinton

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

Charles de Gaulle

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates of the country.

mayor Marion Barry

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle

News headlines:

• Include Your Children when Baking Cookies
• Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
• Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
• Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case
• Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
• Prostitutes Appeal to Pope
• Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
• Teacher Strikes Idle Kids
• Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told
• Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
• War Dims Hope for Peace
• If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While
• Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
• Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
• Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
• Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge
• New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
• Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
• Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
• Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy
• New Vaccine May Contain Rabies
• Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
  

actual (news) headlines 200-2001