35 Event Quotes

Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman - it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town.

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

I don't know about you, but I think this is a mmmmoving experience. Goshdarnit, the jokes aren't getting better--but the food's gonna be real good!

Where's Snow White and the rest of the Seven Dwarves? Sumbitches... Is this the best you got, Eric Bischoff? Sending The Rock out with a bunch of Oompa Loompas? (referring to CSC Event Staff escorting The Rock from the building. They are all smaller than him and with beer bellies.)

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

Well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on.

September the 4th, 2001, I stood in the ruins of the Twin Towers. It's a day I will never forget.

Senator Jackie Speier one of honored guests at banquet, Armenian National Committee of America Western Region, October 2006.

Hi who are you wearing, or who the fuck are you? I don't know half of these people anymore.

It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his 'nocturnes' answered: 'All of my life.' With the same rigor he could have said that all of the centuries that preceded the moment when he painted were necessary. From that correct application of the law of causality it follows that the slightest event presupposes the inconceivable universe and, conversely, that the universe needs even the slightest of events.

I'm a special guest referee for a special rib eating contest between Charles Barkley, and the Pheonix Gorilla, at my friend's restranat, right here in Pheonix, AZ!

In fact it was at the Rockingham County event that he got something no other potential presidential candidate - Republican or Democrat - has received: a lengthy standing ovation just in the middle of his introduction.

'...And tonight, for one night only, the home of the World Wrestling Federation' (when introducing Pay-Per-View event)

'Ladies and gentlemen...welcome to the magnificent Silverdome...and welcome to WrestleMania III!!

'Yo yo yo, what hell is this?'

'We really rock the house.' (from 'The Mattress King')

When they carried Jack in, Hill threw his coat over Jack's head, and I held his head to throw the coat over it. It wasn't repulsive to me for one moment - nothing was repulsive to me -

Sverdlov Hall was already nearly full...The provincial elite were all there. And it was all the usual things: people kissing each other and shouting greetings across the rows of seats, chattering about the snow and the harvest prospects and generally feeling themselves to be masters of their fate. In all the cacophony I didn't hear the name of Andropov mentioned once, not anything said about his death. At twenty minutes to eleven the hall hushed. The waiting began. With each minute the tension rose and the atmosphere felt charged with electricity...The tension reached a climax. All eyes turned towards the door...Who would come through it first? At precisely eleven, Chernenko's head appeared in the doorway. He was followed by Tikhonov, Gromyko, Ustinov, Gorbachev and the rest. The delegates' reaction was silence.

(After not paying attention to the caller) I'm sorry, Phil, I've got an emergency. We have a baked potato festival coming up on Sunday.

'Get me security'

Yom Tov of Joigny

The event that came to be known as The Pulse began at 3:03 p.m., eastern standard time, on the afternoon of October 1. The term was a misnomer, of course, but within ten hours of the event, most of the scientists capable of pointing this out were either dead or insane. The name hardly mattered, in any case. What mattered was the effect.

STEVE AUSTIN:'What The Name Of This Pay Per View Coming Up? MICK FOLEY:'No Mercy.' STEVE AUSTIN:'Damn right.' (before No Mercy 2000)

Suddenly there is the sound of a shot, so loud, so close that we all fall silent. It echoes on through all the rooms. 'That was a direct hit,' cried Helmut [Goebbels] with no idea how right he is. The Fuhrer is dead now.

'What is UP!'

During the Famous 'Beer Truck' Episode of Raw before w:Wrestlemania XV, March 1999

Now comes the mystery.