I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.

    -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

    -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal
    anti-smoking campaign

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.

    -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an
    interview after he was returned to the US

It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out.
They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their
heads in a nodding position.

    -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Edison Supervisor of News Information, responding to a
    charge by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspector that two Dresden Nuclear Plant
    operators were sleeping on the job.

For economists, the real world is often a special case.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations (six if one went to Harvard). 

    -- Edgar R. Fiedler