Notable Quotes

Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

Burn that [stuff] down. Burn it all down.

-ESPN reporter Chris Palmer tweeting a photo of a building burning in LA during a riot

They just attacked our sister community down the street. It’s a gated community, and they tried to climb the gates. They had to beat them back. They destroyed a Starbucks and are now in front of my building. Get these animals [expletive] out of my neighborhood. Go back to where you live. – ESPN reporter Chris Palmer tweeting several hours later, when the rioters came into his neighborhood

If I didn’t have a primary, I wouldn’t care.

-Congressman Elliot Engel overheard on a hot mike asking Bronx President Ruben Diaz to allow him to speak at a news conference about the shooting of George Floyd and the ensuing unrest

For a while after the pandemic began, Zoom seemed new and fun. We rearranged our lighting to our best advantage and made sure our cameras weren’t shooting directly up our noses. We put up funny background screens, even on work calls. “Hey Rob, is that a brontosaurus in your swimming pool?” we cackled stupidly. It was during this period that endless jokes were made about not wearing pants.

-Nicholas Goldberg, Jewish World Review, in an article titled “Zoom was fun at first. But it wouldn’t be 2020 if we didn’t figure out a way to ruin it”

I’m really quite overcome with emotion on this day. It’s kind of hard to talk, frankly. I’ve spent 18 years working toward this goal, so it’s hard to believe that it’s happened.

- SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, after the launch of astronauts in a Falcon 9 rocket, made by his company, to the International Space Station

I don’t want to rush everything.

– Jack Rico, age 13, who just graduated college in California with his fourth college degree

In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface. There is no excuse for this. I am very sorry for making this unquestionably offensive decision and thank all of you for holding me accountable.

- Comedian Jimmy Fallon apologizing on Twitter after a video surfaced this week of him wearing blackface while playing fellow comedian Chris Rock in a Saturday Night Live sketch twenty years ago

Wikipedia is badly biased. The original policy long since forgotten, it no longer has an effective neutrality policy. It now touts controversial opinions on politics, religion, and science.

- Wikipedia’s co-founder Larry Sanger writing about how the site now has a leftist bias

Knowing it wouldn’t make a difference, he jokingly asked if being married to me might move him up in the queue. Obviously, with the motorized boating prohibition in our early days of COVID-19, he thought it might get a laugh. It didn’t.

- Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer talking to the press after a video surfaced of her husband trying to get a marina to put his boat in the water, despite the state prohibiting that due to corona and showing him arguing that the marina better do it because “my wife is the governor”

Black Rifle Coffee Company - Name of a coffee company that was accidentally banned in Canada when they implemented an assault weapons ban several weeks ago

Why is the media no longer concerned, and often almost gleeful, about all the mass gatherings that would have been so deadly due to COVID 19 just a few days ago? - Tweet by Donald Trump Jr.

I guess these people magically aren’t “killing their grandmas” by going outside anymore?!? - Ibid.

Perhaps the most nonsensical talking point offered by Antifa apologists was to claim that the group couldn’t possibly be nefarious or violent because its members are anti-fascists — it says so right there in the name!... As the prominent anti-fascist Joe Stalin supposedly said, “Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.” - David Harsanyi, National Review

I was very confused because I hadn’t ordered anything from Well.ca in a while.

-Elliot Berinstein, of Toronto, after a package from Well.ca was delivered last week – eight years after he ordered a product from there

The longer and weirder a word is, the easier it is to spell. Take, for example, the state fish of Hawaii, the humuhumunukunukuāpuaa. That’s an easy word to spell; it’s just long.

-Dr. Jacques Bailly, the official pronouncer of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, on CNN