Infamous Quotes from Famous People - You Said What?!
Foot-in-Mouth Disease Affects Everybody
"Half this game is 90% mental." -- Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." -- Department of Social Services, Greenville, SC
"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." -- Keppel Enderbery
"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed & it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record." -- Mark Fowler, FCC Chairman
"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." -- Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.
"Whenever I watch TV & 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 & death & stuff." -- Mariah Carey
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign.
"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body," -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." -- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.
"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, & I'm just the one to do it." -- A congressional candidate in Texas
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air & water that are doing it." -- Al Gore, Vice President
"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." -- Dan Quayle, Vice President
"We've got to pause & ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" -- Lee Iacocca
Question: If you could live forever, would you & why?
Answer: "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, Heather Whitestone, in the 1994 Miss USA contest, which she won.
"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people." -- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor. [By the way, this guy is not related to the author...thank goodness!]
Published by Jack Wellman
I'm a pastor at Mulvane Brethren Church (KS) & author who gives free training for Effective Evangelism at various churches in the states and have published 3 books on Amazon: "Teaching Children The Gospel",... View profile
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I like the Norman Einstein quote.
Miss Alabama is quite the rambler, but the one that takes all has to be Mayor Marion Barry who feels Washington D.C. has the lowest crime rates, besides the killings. : O
To be as wise as you one day, ahhhh that would be awesome. Fun read!!
great article - thanks for sharing ♥ - These are funny, and I really enjoyed then:)
Yes, out of the mouths of people.
Al Gore! So funny! Love your quotes!
I especially liked the one about the Food Stamps. I guess we've all be inflicted by it at one time or another.
Hadn't read this one before and it's excellent! Mariah Carey's remark is so insensitive...sometimes we just don't think before we open our mouths! Great article Jack!