"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
- Alan Minter, Boxer
"How to store your baby walker: First, remove baby."
- Anonymous Manufacturer
"You guys line up alphabetically by height."
- Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
- Charles De Gaulle, former French President
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.
"Sit by the homely girl, you'll look better by comparison."
- Debra Maffett, Miss America 1983
The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing."
- Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series.
"Can you get a ticket for running a stop sign that is not
there?"
- Driver school applicant
"Boxing’s all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds."
- Frank Bruno, Boxer
"The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe."
- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia.
"I have opinions of my own --strong opinions-- but I don't always agree with them."
- George Bush, former U.S. President
"It is white."
- George W. Bush, when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight."
- George Gobel
