Category: Best Line of the Day

Clever turns of phrase, special splashes of wit, provocative insight — all in a sentence or two.

A thought to start your week

Put it this way: if the consensus of the economic experts is grim, the consensus of the climate experts is utterly terrifying. At this point, the central forecast of leading climate models — not the worst-case scenario but the most likely outcome — is utter catastrophe, a rise in temperatures that will totally disrupt life as we know it, if we continue along our present path.

Paul Krugman

Have a nice day.

Best line of the day

Now that Sen. Coburn (R-OK) has said he will not answer any questions about his conversations with Sen. Ensign (R-NV) because he was acting as his physician (and spiritual counselor), TPM Reader DE reminds us that Dr. Coburn is an OB/Gyn.

A deeper scandal than we’d ever imagined?

Josh Marshall

Best line of the morning

As the parent (or should I say survivor?) of teenagers, I love looking at these books.  Doesn’t matter when they are published, someone always believes “they” have the answer. Personally, I would have loved a “parenting” book on  ”how to hide the body”…

Awful Library Books reviewing How to Survive Your Child’s Rebellious Teens—New Solutions for Troubled Parents.

Best lines of the day

During our week off, I had a very dark day. First, I’m on the computer Googling things and I learn that Farrah Fawcett has died. I used to have her poster. Six hours later, I’m watching TV and I find out Michael Jackson is dead. I used to have his glove. But it isn’t over. I stumble to the kitchen to find solace in milk and cookies and find out my milk has expired. Seriously.

Three things in one day. That can’t be normal. So it gets me thinking, I wonder how many people die every day? According to the Internet, it’s somewhere between a hundred and forty-five thousand and three hundred thousand. That’s a lot of people. And the real tragedy is that we won’t read anything about most of those people, because they weren’t hot or good dancers.

Michael Diffie, The New Yorker Blog

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“I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man’s got to do what he’s got to do.”

Satchel Paige

A few others:

“Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.”

“I don’t generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.”

“Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money.”

“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”

“You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.”

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”

“Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.”

Best line of the day

“First, implicit in this characterization of Franken is the notion of the Senate as a decorous gentlemen’s club. I doubt that club ever existed in reality; but in any case, these days the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body is, not to put too fine a point on it, chock full o’ nuts. James Inhofe: I rest my case.”

Paul Krugman commenting that Al Franken is a policy wonk.

“In fact, the only elected official I know who’s wonkier than Al Franken is Rush Holt, my congressman — and he used to be the assistant director of Princeton’s plasma physics lab. (The campaign’s bumper stickers read, ‘My Congressman IS a rocket scientist.’)”