Most Memorable Quotes of 2003
"Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone."
-- Michael Jackson in Martin Bashir's documentary, on having young boys sleep over in his bedroom.
"You don't get over something like what she thought they had, even if the guy is possibly a murderer."
-- A friend of Amber Frey explaining why Frey kept talking to her paramour, Scott Peterson, even after his pregnant wife, Laci, went missing.
"I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism."
-- Former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair.
"The enemy that we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed."
-- U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace in March.
"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."
-- Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf as American forces neared Baghdad.
"I made it fun. I said it was going to be gross and I was going to have to make myself throw up, but it was going to be OK."
-- Courtney Love on how she explained her October drug overdose to her 11-year-old daughter, Francis.
"I want to kill him. I want his intestines on a stick. . . . I want to kill his dog."
-- Mel Gibson's response to New York Times writer Frank Rich's criticism of "The Passion," Gibson's movie about the life of Jesus.
"Liars get cancer."
-- Rosie O'Donnell to a Gruner & Jahr executive (who was a cancer survivor), as quoted in testimony in her 2003 trial.
"Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea."
-- Performer J Jessica Simpson.
"[We] need to set definite boundaries on our appetites."
-- From "The Book of Virtues" by former education secretary William Bennett, who admitted in 2003 that he had gambled extensively for years.
"I feel sad, which is not a typical emotion for me."
-- Businesswoman Martha Stewart.
"But it goes to show why this kid has failed the driver's test four times."
-- Stasys Meliunas, chief of police in the town of Rokiskis, Lithuania, where a teen hit-and-run driver discovered the pedestrian he had knocked down was still under the car when he got home.
"It's the most difficult [decision] I've made in my entire life, except the one I made in 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax."
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger on his decision to run for governor.
"I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico." -- Arnold on the campaign trail in 2003.
"You gotta shake it like a Polaroid picture."
-- Wesley Clark, showing off his mad skillz by quoting OutKast lyrics to Bowdoin College students.
"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."
-- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during a Pentagon press conference.
"Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone."
-- Michael Jackson in Martin Bashir's documentary, on having young boys sleep over in his bedroom.
"You don't get over something like what she thought they had, even if the guy is possibly a murderer."
-- A friend of Amber Frey explaining why Frey kept talking to her paramour, Scott Peterson, even after his pregnant wife, Laci, went missing.
"I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism."
-- Former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair.
"The enemy that we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed."
-- U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace in March.
"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."
-- Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf as American forces neared Baghdad.
"I made it fun. I said it was going to be gross and I was going to have to make myself throw up, but it was going to be OK."
-- Courtney Love on how she explained her October drug overdose to her 11-year-old daughter, Francis.
"I want to kill him. I want his intestines on a stick. . . . I want to kill his dog."
-- Mel Gibson's response to New York Times writer Frank Rich's criticism of "The Passion," Gibson's movie about the life of Jesus.
"Liars get cancer."
-- Rosie O'Donnell to a Gruner & Jahr executive (who was a cancer survivor), as quoted in testimony in her 2003 trial.
"Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea."
-- Performer J Jessica Simpson.
"[We] need to set definite boundaries on our appetites."
-- From "The Book of Virtues" by former education secretary William Bennett, who admitted in 2003 that he had gambled extensively for years.
"I feel sad, which is not a typical emotion for me."
-- Businesswoman Martha Stewart.
"But it goes to show why this kid has failed the driver's test four times."
-- Stasys Meliunas, chief of police in the town of Rokiskis, Lithuania, where a teen hit-and-run driver discovered the pedestrian he had knocked down was still under the car when he got home.
"It's the most difficult [decision] I've made in my entire life, except the one I made in 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax."
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger on his decision to run for governor.
"I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico." -- Arnold on the campaign trail in 2003.
"You gotta shake it like a Polaroid picture."
-- Wesley Clark, showing off his mad skillz by quoting OutKast lyrics to Bowdoin College students.
"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."
-- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during a Pentagon press conference.
