“We can go higher.”
–Arnaud De Schuytter, director of Vertu Americas, the maker of high-end phones, on a customer who paid $90,000 for a platinum phone with jewels.
“They have the talking disease. This inability to be quiet and still for long periods of time seems genetically coded in them.”
–Dennis Leary, who plays a firefighter in the FX series “Rescue Me,” on his biggest complaint about women.
“I’m just gonna go on a little vacation, but I’ll be back before you know it.”
— Pfc. Thomas Tucker of Madras, Ore., in a recent phone message to his mother. Tucker was one of two servicemen found dead in Iraq Monday.
“The situation is urgent.”
— Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who ordered National Guard troops to patrol New Orleans after six people were killed over the weekend there.
“The only thing I have in common with them is I rarely received a B in high school myself.”
–Dan Meier, principal of Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Va., who praised 41 of the school’s top academic students who were recognized as valedictorians during recent commencement exercises.
“Congressmen are like diapers. You need to change them often, and for the same reason.”
–Former California Rep. Pete McCloskey, who failed in his bid to unseat Rep. Richard Pombo in the June 6 California primary.
“Why, are you guys going to miss me?”
–Cubs manager Dusty Baker, in a question to reporters who were quizzing him about his unresolved future.
“Nuclear weapons in the hands of this regime would be a grave threat to people everywhere.”
–President Bush, talking about Iran in his commencement address at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
“How do we explain to children drug use is dangerous and can ruin your life if the top guy is a drug user?”
–Rick Torres, who ran against John M. Fabrizi, the mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. Fabrizi admitted that he used cocaine during his term as mayor.
