General (General discussion, talk about anything.)
Stolen ones:
"Your ambition - is that right - is to abseil across the English channel?"
Cilla Black
"It is beyond my apprehension."
Danny Ozark, baseball team manager
"Listen to the blabbing brook."
Norm Crosby
"This is unparalyzed in the state's history."
Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House
"She's really tough; she's remorseful."
David Moorcroft
"And then he [Mike Tyson] will have only channel vision."
Frank Bruno, boxer
"Cardial - as in cardial arrest."
Eve Pollard
"Marie Scott... has really plummeted to the top."
Alan Weeks
"He's going up and down like a metronome."
Ron Pickering
"He's on 90... 10 away from that mythical figure."
Trevor Bailey, cricket commentator
"Unless somebody can pull a miracle out of the fire, Somerset are cruising into the semi-final."
Fred Trueman
"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile."
George W. Bush
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
Richard Daley, former Chicago mayor
"He was a man of great statue."
Thomas Menino, Boston mayor
"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"Well, that was a cliff-dweller."
Wes Westrum, about a close baseball game
"If Gower had stopped that [cricket ball] he would have decapitated his hand."
Farokh Engineer
"We seem to have unleased a hornet's nest."
Valerie Singleton
"This series has been swings and pendulums all the way through."
Trevor Bailey, cricket commentator
"Be sure and put some of those neutrons on it."
Mike Smith, ordering a salad at a restaurant
"It's got lots of installation."
Mike Smith, describing his new coat
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