Scud Quotes

#1. NBC's a little jealous of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. They want to get a reporter with a macho-sounding name too, so they're changing Irving R. Levine's name to Scud Shrapnel.

Johnny Carson

#2. The ludicrous fever of toys struggling skyward, the sky itself more and more remote, the wind tearing the awning of cloud to tatters, pale limitless blue and green recessions laced with strands of scud, the light failing - once she would have noticed these things.

Samuel Beckett

#3. My anxiety and pain during the Scud attacks on Israel, where some of my family lives, did not cancel out my fear and anguish for the victims of the bombardment of Iraq, where I also have relatives.

Ella Shohat

#4. Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

Rudyard Kipling

#5. It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#6. We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

Condoleezza Rice

#7. As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

George Orwell

#8. Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

Leander Paes

#9. It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#10. If it wasn't for coffee, I'd have no discernible personality at all.

David Letterman

#11. The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.

Joel Stein

#12. If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing.

Paul Theroux

#13. Hate the sin, not the sinner.

Julie Garwood

#14. China ... has the capacity to ensure its stability and growth.

Francois Hollande

#15. When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

Ed Koch

#16. Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

Gustave Flaubert

#17. Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.

Mike May

#18. I think you can tell when a New York show isn't shot in the city. It's so iconic and has such a specific energy.

Theo James

#19. Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime.

Ann Rinaldi