“By the time [Bush’s] gone, this country is going to look like a hotel suite after Van Halen passed through town. We’re going to need to burn the mattresses, pull up the carpeting and start over.”
Runner-up:
“Joe was twenty, with fewer prospects than a box turtle on a four-lane highway.”
Gerri Hirshey, writing in Rolling Stone about Joe Brown, father of James Brown — The Definitive Profile of the Godfather of Soul.