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11.02.2010

Not Exactly The Most Sought After of Fortune Cookies…

“If you tempt a squirrel with a nut, be prepared to be bitten.”

(A rung or two up the ladder from “You will lead a short — but happy — life.”) Read more »

10.08.2010

The decision was based solely on this tweet addressed to GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman:

“You&Jerry are disgusting. You both are Goldman Sachs Pig Demons.”

10.06.2010

Asked in the new movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps if he wanted to invest millions in California bonds, Bretton James, the heavy, says:

“California’s made more mistakes than Yogi Berra quoting Shakespeare.”

9.08.2010

“When a cold mama gets hot, boy how she sizzles.”

— Fellow Bus Passenger Hitting on Claudette Colbert in 1934’s It Happened One Night

9.01.2010

Hotel Guest to Desk Clerk: “Is the tide going out?”

Desk Clerk to Hotel Guest: “It changes several times during the day.”

8.27.2010

“Politics is about 30. There’s 30 percent on the left and 30 percent on the right. It’s the 30 percent in the middle you need.”

–Anonymous, Arithmetically Challenged Lobbyist Read more »

8.26.2010

“Man, those are ugly birds. No wonder they have a breeding problem.” Read more »

7.26.2010

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music”

–Billy Wilder

“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”

–Groucho Marx

6.16.2010

“She was a part of my heart. Now she’s just a line in my face.”

–– Tom Petty, from his latest release, Mojo Read more »

4.19.2010

“Government is like watching another man pissing in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.”

— Orson Scott Card, Heartfire Read more »