“We’ve had people read that book who haven’t read anything else but the Bible.”
–Charlie Sloan, a bookseller in Waynesville, N.C., near the Cold Mountain immortalized in Charles Frazier’s best-selling novel of the Civil War, which has sold 700 copies in his store.
“Whether the Pakistanis buy U.S. wheat, Canadian wheat or or some other country’s wheat isn’t going to make a difference on a dinner table in Islamabad, but it sure will in Topeka.”
–Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), on his bill to exempt American food exports from the sanctions imposed on Pakistan and India for their nuclear arms tests.
“It wasn’t running with the bulls–it was walking with the cows.”
–Chris Carroll, a Las Vegas police officer who participated in what was billed as a Pamplona-style “running of the bulls” in Mesquite, Nev., an event that ended up producing little excitement and only two minor injuries.
“In today’s American film market, if my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.”
–Woody Allen, whose modest box-office receipts have forced his producers into painful cost-cutting measures.
