Quote me

OK, I'm now done with quotes and paraprosdokians. Instead, I'm now using this space to save funny English language oddities that I feature in the English as she is spoke! sidebar. These come to us courtesy of World Wide Words ©.
  • An online advert for Virbac Yard Spray, Robert Bendesky discovered, lists the following as one of its benefits: "Kills fleas and ticks that infest your yard, and then your pet".
  • Paul Witheridge favoured us with an article from The Observer of Sarnia, Ontario, dated 18 October. It concerned the canonisation of Mary McKillop as Australia's first saint, noting that "McKillop was beautified by John Paul II in 1995".
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This is a place to save the quotes from my header, which I update regularly.
The chronological sequence is newest first, but it hardly matters!
(Note: I took a break from Quote me for awhile to do some paraprosdokians, but this will return soon.)
  • Never again in the halls of Washington, D.C., do I want to have to make explanations that I can't explain. - George W. Bush
  • If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything! If you don't stand for something, you don't stand for anything! - George W. Bush
  • Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. - George W. Bush
  • A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind. - George W. Bush
  • In Feb. 2008: "Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." - George W. Bush
  • You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush
  • It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it. - George W. Bush
  • Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. - George W. Bush
  • Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. - George W. Bush
  • It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas. - George W. Bush
  • I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging. - George W. Bush
  • States should have the right to enact ... laws ... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live. - George W. Bush, as Governor of Texas, the state with the most executions
  • Most of our imports come from other countries. - George W. Bush
  • I think we agree, the past is over. - George W. Bush
  • If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch. - George W. Bush
  • I stand by all the misstatements that I've made. - Dan Quayle
  • We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world. - Dan Quayle
  • Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. - Dan Quayle
  • The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. - Dan Quayle
  • When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. - Dan Quayle
  • We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe. - Dan Quayle
  • Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. - Dan Quayle
  • I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future. - Dan Quayle
  • What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is. - Dan Quayle