Category: Best Line of the Day

From dooce, who is definitely on a roll with best lines: “[W]e bought both items at Best Buy, Satan’s Home on Earth.”

“It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.”

Bob Herbert, The New York Times

“[L]ovemaking and fishing don’t manage to dominate your life like you wish they could.”

Narrator David Burkett in True North by Jim Harrison

“Being called partisan and vindictive by Tom DeLay is like being called ugly by a frog.”

Travis County (Texas) District Attorney Ronnie Earle, February 24, 2004

Thanks to Juanita’s for the link.

Two more from Susan DuQuesnay, these from an essay essentially about Bob Novak.

As a general rule, I don’t like reporters. They go to meetings. I go to meetings. I come home and think about the meeting. They go home and write about the meeting. The next day when I read about the meeting in the newspaper, I wonder where I was yesterday when I thought I was at the meeting. This can be disconcerting.

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I marched myownself over to the sheriff’s department right then and there, slammed that public record on the sheriff’s desk, and hollered in that voice of mine that sounds like a teaspoon in the garbage disposal, “You are too damn dumb to be sheriff.”

“In any case, the disclosure that a federal official may have lied in a trial in which defendants were convicted of lying was a stinging blow to the authorities.”

From Los Angeles Times story on Stewart trial perjury

Well, I guess.

And what followed was one of those moments in life that reaches into your heart and squeezes it so tightly that you momentarily black out from the cuteness.

dooce

I didn’t think that the Teletubbies were going to open fire on each other with machine guns, although I would definitely pay money to see that episode.

dooce

From Josh Marshall: “Doug Feith, the man who put the FU in the FUBAR that is the American adventure in Iraq.”

Will the last person to leave the Catholic Church please blow out the candles.

From David Ehrenstein commenting on Colorado Luis’ follow-up post on Bishop Sheridan’s letter telling Catholic voters they can go to hell. (Actually it’s the best line of the day yesterday.)

“Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.”
— Andrew Stern, president of Service Employees International Union

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates

“[T]he overexamined life is also not worth living.”
Jim Harrison

From Wonkette (who is on a roll today):

And there’s apparently no state-level I.Q. data out there to begin with. That this hoax could get busted so easily itself suggests that the Dems are dim. After all, the real test of intentionally misleading data is that you’re able to base foreign policy on it.

“This administration cannot be trusted to govern if it cannot be counted on to think and, having thought, to have second thoughts.”

George Will

“I wonder how we’d react if we saw some pictures of what goes on in maximum security prisons here in the U.S.”

Dave Pell, Electablog*

“Why do people still, after Enron, after Arthur Andersen, after all the major scandals that have been reported exhaustively in the press, still think out loud in e-mails?”

Former Federal prosecutor Zachary Carter quoted in The New York Times.

From an op-ed piece regarding grammar by John Rosenthal in The New York Times — “the kind of people who worry about whether anal-retentive has a hyphen.”

“It was like talking to a manic child who had eaten 800 cherry Pop Tarts for breakfast.”

Heather Mallick in the Toronto Globe and Mail describing an appearance with Bill O’Reilly on Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor.

Link via Eschaton.

History — “an intelligible story of how men’s actions produce results other than those they intended.

Historian J.G.A. Pocock

“Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”

Mark Twain

“Mankind has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars, and so on — while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.”

Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.”

Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution