” I mean, we can only say we’re running out of time so many times.”
— ADAM SILVER, the NBA’s deputy commissioner discussing the lockout negotiations (via Sports Illustrated)
” I mean, we can only say we’re running out of time so many times.”
— ADAM SILVER, the NBA’s deputy commissioner discussing the lockout negotiations (via Sports Illustrated)
“(The Rapture will) be finished out on Oct. 21, that’s coming very shortly. That looks like it will be … the final end of everything.”
— HAROLD CAMPING, giving an update on when the Rapture, an event he says started on May …
“Radiohead is not coming, we were hoaxed. Please accept our apologies.”
—OCCUPY WALL STREET, an ongoing protest in Manhattan, in a tweet; they had originally claimed the band Radiohead would perform for protesters Friday …
“If Florida moves, it would create chaos. The calendar would be so compressed that the states that are trying to more relevant, that I don’t think it would do any good for them.”
— CHAD CONNELLY, South Carolina GOP chairman, …
“I was given this official list of 777 names — dignitaries, governors, all sorts of people — and not one person I knew. I rang up [the Queen] … and she told me to bin the list.”
–PRINCE WILLIAM, on asking Queen …
“If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.”
— STEVE MARTIN, in an open letter on his website, giving Eddie Murphy advice on hosting the Oscars
“Just, I don’t know, the tiger blood … it was so silly and people took it so seriously, and I figured, alright, I’ll continue to give the people what they want, you know?”
—CHARLIE SHEEN, in an upcoming interview with the …
“This is not going to be popular. But, we’re not here to be popular. We’re here to do what needs to be done.”
— DEBORAH HERSMAN, National Transportation Safety Board chairperson, on proposing a ban on cell phone use by …
“(Fattal and Bauer are enjoying) very good conditions here in prison … it’s like staying in a hotel.”
— MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iran’s president, on the conditions of the two American hikers being held in prison (via CNN)
“Put some jeans on and fear God. Forget about all this fashion nonsense.”
— STEVE DRAIN, spokesperson for the hate group Westboro Baptist Church, who reportedly planned to protest at New York Fashion Week (via New York Post)
“These people f—ed me over.”
— CAROL BARTZ, recently ousted CEO of Yahoo!, on the company’s chairman of the board firing her over the phone (via Fortune)
“The driver seemed to have not seen her because of a large tree at the intersection…[Reese Witherspoon] was lucky, because it could have been much more serious.”
—WITNESS, who saw a car strike actress Reese Witherspoon while …