But [Romney] is smart and pleasant and tells the most risqué joke that I’ve ever heard from a presidential candidate: “I asked Ann, my wife, ‘Did you ever in your wildest dreams believe I would be running for President?’ She told me, ‘You weren’t in my wildest dreams.'”
Category: Best Line of the Day
Clever turns of phrase, special splashes of wit, provocative insight — all in a sentence or two.
Best line of the day, so far
“Dan Daly of the Washington Times, on belated gift ideas for 7-foot-6 Yao Ming and his 6-2 bride: ‘How about a gift certificate to Bed, Bath, Above and Beyond?'”
And you can use this week’s coupon for 20% off!
Life
“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one.”
— Wallace Stegner in Angle of Repose.
“The problem is it takes most of us most of our lives to understand what we should have known from the beginning.”
— Leon Uris in Trinity.
“Though finally the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of suffering new regret just as you get a glimmer that nothing’s worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life.”
— Richard Ford in Independence Day.
Henry Wiggen (Michael Moriarty): “Everybody’d be nice to you if they knew you were dying.”
Bruce Pearson (Robert De Niro): “Everybody knows everybody is dying. That’s why people are as good as they are.”
— Bang the Drum Slowly
Best picture of the day, so far
I think Tiger wanted a 62.
That’s him after his putt did a 270º on the lip on 18 at the PGA but failed to drop. As it was, Woods tied the record 63 for a round in a Major.
Click image for a larger version.
Best line of the day, so far
Today, says White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, the three were out there simply to cast a few fishing lines.
“They’re taking advantage of the great outdoors — it’s one of the things that this family loves to do when they come up here in the summertime,” she said at the Kennebunkport press filing center. “They do a lot of what other families do when they get together for family vacations…”
“Bicker?” a reporter asked.
The Swamp, which has photos of 41, 43 and Jeb in the 825 hp Fidelity III.
Best Bonds, baseball line of the day, so far
“If you’re worried about ‘cheaters’ holding hallowed records, don’t hallow baseball records in the first place. They’re just numbers and it really is only a damn ballgame.”
Best line of the day, so far
In short, and I know that I’m taking a big chance in saying this, but Mitt Romney is without question the biggest and most obvious fake ever to attain public office, and that includes Jesse Ventura and Caligula’s horse. The larger point is that, to win the nomination of the clown college that is the modern Republican Party, he almost has to be. Why this is the case, it would seem to me, is worth a few minutes on our television chat shows, which seem now endlessly devoted to the topic: The Democrats — What In Hell Is Wrong With Them, Anyway? There’s a really big fish in a really small barrel over here, kids.
Best line of the day, so far
Best line of the day, so far
“What Giuliani is, is George Bush on steroids.”
John Edwards as reported by Rolling Stone.
Best paragraph of the day, so far
George W. Bush is the imperial president that James Madison and other founders of this great republic warned us about. He lied the nation into precisely the “foreign entanglements” that George Washington feared would destroy our experiment in representative government, and he has championed a spurious notion of security over individual liberty, thus eschewing the alarms of Thomas Jefferson as to the deprivation of the inalienable rights of free citizens. But most important, he has used the sledgehammer of war to obliterate the separation of powers that James Madison enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
Robert Scheer in the first paragraph of an essay, “The President We Were Warned About.”
Best line of the day, so far
“That final evening, he oversaw Harris’s last meal: ‘He’d asked for pizza, and I directed that it be Tombstone Pizza—'”
Tad Friend writing in The New Yorker about now-retired San Quentin spokesman and unofficial execution director Vernell Crittendon. The Harris mentioned was executed in 1992.
Worth repeating
A best line, first appearing here one year ago:
“On the Web, everyone will be famous to fifteen people.”
— David Weinberger, with a play on Andy Warhol’s maxim, as quoted by Nicholas Lemann in The New Yorker.
Best line of the day, so far
“Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary shall investigate fully whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to impeach Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.”
House resolution said to be introduced Tuesday, via MSNBC.
Best line of the night, so far
“I don’t understand where the nativist, anti-Mexican crowd gets off insisting that every one must read, write, and speak English when they so clearly are incapable of it themselves.”
TRex at Firedoglake discussing the wingnut blogosphere.
Best line of the day, so far
“I have long been of the opinion that the entire history of American popular culture — maybe even of Western civilization — amounts to little more than a long prelude to ‘The Simpsons.'”
A.O. Scott in his review.
Best line of the day, so far
“Maybe now ‘special prosecutor’ is just a ceremonial title, designed to make people feel good about the illusion of justice. Like, you know, ‘Attorney General.'”
Best line of the day, so far
“… Mr. Flannery in his engaging and, yes, bouncy tour of the kangaroo family and the landscape of his native Australia.”
William Grimes in a review of Chasing Kangaroos. It’s an interesting review.
Best line of the day, so far
“I can hurt my back just eating a bowl of strawberries. I wouldn’t last long picking them.”
Scott Adams with a little Lou Dobbs anitdote. He adds:
“But the dirty little secret that most Californians know is that Mexican immigrants, legal or otherwise, are bringing up the national average on the ‘good people’ meter. If that were not so obviously the case, the borders would have been shut a long time ago.”
Best line about the YouTube debate, so far
“But what the majority of the nearly forty YouTube videos provided was authenticity which is usually as hard to find in presidential debates as humility.”
John Dickerson writing at Slate Magazine. He adds:
“It’s one thing to ask in the abstract about gay marriage. It’s another thing to have two women asking why they can’t marry each other. In one powerful question a woman being treated for breast cancer removed her wig. In another, a man asking about ending the Iraq war noted the three folded flags over his shoulder that had been on the caskets of father, grandfather and oldest son.”
Best line of the day, so far
“Are you gonna vote for Rudy Giuliani, ‘America’s mayor?'”
“You know, anyone dumb enough to call Giuliani ‘America’s Mayor’ probably thinks America actually has a mayor.”
Most interesting line of the day, so far
“And it has to be something I can do from New Mexico, which is the most isolated place in the U.S.”
Author Walter Jon Williams
Best line of the day, so far
“Libby Vows To Track Down the Real Perjurers”
Best line of the day, so far
Under Bush, some people are imprisoned forever without due process of law while others who receive due process of law and are found guilty are set free.
Do I have that right?
Best line of the day, so far
“[T]here have been Southern presidents and there have been conservative presidents. But the Southern presidents have not been conservative, and the conservative presidents have not been Southern.” [Since Polk, until George W. Bush.]
Michael Lind, Made in Texas (2003)
Lind also says:
The pre-modern mind [conservative Southerner] can conceive of economic expansion only in terms of applying traditional techniques to more resources. The idea of using innovative machinery or more efficient organizational techniques to produce more with the same amount of land, labor, or raw materials—or even with smaller amounts—is alien to this archaic mentality.
Hence the reliance on more oil, not more fuel-efficient cars; more immigrant labor, not highly mechanized and automated industries; etc.
Best line of the day, so far
“NewMexiKen is an amusing political blog written by a former US Archives staffperson now living in Albuquerque. The site has a decidedly historical bent, as you might expect, including dailiy “On this day in history” features. There’s a fair amount of cultural commentary – including the iPhone, Paris, Ratatouille (the movie), Harry Potter, and so on. There’s comparatively little, and fairly brief, political commentary. The writer has a great voice and a charming personality, and the commentary is very thoughtful.”
MyDD (one of nine blogs reviewed).
Thanks!