Abbreviations For Common Sayings

#1. Satire is what closes Saturday night.

Juvenal

#2. Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.

Ron Brackin

#3. You know, funny can be universal.

Maz Jobrani

#4. I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.

Matt Shultz

#5. Yeah, cause that would be a smart choice. So, I should just forget about the whole lying to me thing when you pronounce you will never do it again?"
"Yes."
"You'd have a better chance getting a donkey to shit gold.

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

#6. In the normal process of evaluating the end of the season, I meet with key executives for thorough discussions and evaluations of all aspects of football operations.

Jeffrey Lurie

#7. If a lending institution is faced with bids for a package of toxic assets that are less than the carrying value of those assets, the sale of those assets would trigger a further loss and reduce the underlying capital of the institution.

Roger Altman

#8. I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#9. I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someone else or, in my line of work, they are usually dead.

Lindsey Davis

#10. You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout.

Joel Parkinson

#11. If you can think about it, you can create it.

John Lasseter

#12. My goal was to show the history of the end of the Cold War through both sides - the U.S. side and the Soviet side. I really felt that especially the Soviet side of the story hadn't been well told because we didn't know.

David E. Hoffman