“I couldn’t walk. My whole leg was hurting, and the back of my knee was in pain. I heard something pop, but I didn’t know what it was. It was just painful.”
–KENDRICK PERKINS, starting forward for the Boston Celtics, on his …
Quotes
Quotes: Swiss Upset Spanish in the World Cup
“Switzerland just beat Spain in the World Cup! The Swiss reaction? Neutral.”
— JUSTIN BUNTING, a Twitter user, reacting to the Swiss upset of Spain in the World Cup. (via Twitter)
Quotes: Jonathan Metz on Cutting Off His Arm
“I definitely dithered for a few hours after coming up with the initial idea … You know, what would MacGyver do if he were here?”
— JONATHAN METZ on the thought process before cutting off his arm after becoming trapped in a …
Quotes: Official on BP Trash Contamination Fears
“BP oil is responsible for polluting our sand beaches and our estuaries. They pick it up, put it on trucks, take it four or five miles north and dump it on us again.”
— MARLIN LADNER, supervisor in Harrison County, Miss., on …
Quotes: Joe Jackson on Michael Jackson’s Death
“I said this would have never happened if you had went and been with him.”
— JOE JACKSON, father of Michael Jackson, blaming his wife Katherine for the singer’s death. (via TMZ)
Quotes: Barack Obama on the Oil Spill Impact
“In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come,”
— BARACK …
Quotes: Ambivalence About the World Cup
“Close your eyes and try as hard as you can to pretend you like soccer. Good.”
— DOWHATITELLYOU, personifying American ambivalence about the World Cup on Twitter. Tweets including the word “football” (shockingly) were more …
Quotes: Pope Benedict XVl Address Clerical Abuse At The Pulpit, Begs For Forgiveness
“We, too, insistently beg forgiveness from God and from the persons involved, while promising to do everything possible to ensure that such abuse will never occur again.”
— POPE BENEDICT XVl, speaking to attendees gathered at …
Quotes: Twitter User on Google Background Change
If Apple ran Google.com, they would’ve never added a background image. They would’ve made the white background whiter.
— JAYFANELLI, tweeting about Google’s one-day background change. (via Twitter)
Quote: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke on the Music Industry
“[It’s] only a matter of time — months rather than years — before the music business establishment completely folds,”
— THOM YORKE, lead singer of Radiohead, on the music industry’s future. (via Spinner)
Quotes: Bethany Lott Before Getting Struck By Lightning
“God, baby, look how beautiful it is,”
— BETHANY LOTT, commenting on a storm shortly before she was struck and killed by lightning during a hike with boyfriend Richard Butler. Butler had planned to propose. (via New York Daily News)
Quotes: Oil Spill Gushing 100,000 Barrels a Day?
“In the data I’ve seen, there’s nothing inconsistent with BP’s worst case scenario,”
— IRA LIEFER, associate researcher at the Marine Science Institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara and a member of U.S. …