1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said - 1001 Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." — -Brooke Shields, actress, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal government anti-smoking campaign — "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." -Marion Barry, mayor o... more »f Washington, D.C.
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on."
-Samuel Goldwyn, movie producer
"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or another."
-President George W. Bush
"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."
-Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina
"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like
Norman Einstein."
-Joe Theisman, former NFL football quarterback and sports analyst
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
-former Vice-President Dan Quayle at a fund-raising event for the
United Negro College Fund (attempting to quote the Fund's slogan,