`I don’t know if I should take health advice from a president with a waistline like a Beautyrest mattress, the jogging gait of a beached sea lion and the sleeping habits of a teen-age slumber party.’ -Humorist P.J. O’Rourke, skewing Clinton’s health-reform proprosal at a 300-participant conference titled “Do Conservatives Have a Sense of Humor?”
CINCINNATI REDS OWNER MARGE SCHOTT, ON THE APPEARANCE OF TODAY’S BALLPLAYERS: `It just doesn’t seem right. I was raised to believe that men wearing earrings are fruity. I guess things have changed since then.’
`This guy’s a FOB.’
-Washington-speak for Friend of Bill.
`It is not the same to talk of bulls as it is to be in the bull ring.’
-Spanish proverb, a favorite of Bulls’ Horace Grant.
`We can and must do this together.’
-Sen. Edward Kennedy as his Labor and Human Resources Committee, which has 10 Democrats and seven Republicans, began debating the senator’s version of President Clinton’s health-care reform proposal.
`My children and animals never get ill in them.’
-Princess Anne, introducing the Discovery, Land Rover’s newest entry into the four-wheel drive market.
`I hate to do anything that might ruin my good looks.’
-Sen. Paul Simon, predicting a small scar over his right brow after having a “red spot” removed that is being biopsied.
“We’re followers, not leaders.’
-Dr. John Frederick, University of Chicago geophysical researcher, on the ultraviolet potential indexes, meant to help people protect themselves from skin cancer, already in use in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
`She hasn’t been hanging around nature’s noblemen.”
-Mary Carillo, a tennis commentator and former player, on Jennifer Capriati after her arrest for marijuana possession.
`Let’s Whip Dawn!’
-Title of a pastel drawing by artist Mike Manning depicting Gov. Jim Edgar in leather and stilleto heels, whip in hand. It refers to Edgar’s challenger Dawn Clark Netsch.
`A marginal love tap’
-Tribune columnist Bob Verdi, on Scottie Pippen’s foul on Hubert Davis with 2.1 second to play. Davis made two free throws and the Knicks won 87-86.
`It will encourage us to save. I’m a saver anyway.’
-Lawyer Michael Rickles, 47, browsing in a downtown Atlanta shop, on rising interest rates.
