PERSPECTIVES
 

 
open quoteIn my dreams, Roma will always throw me an apple, but now I know it is only a dream.close quote

Author Herman Rosenblat, whose Holocaust memoir was canceled by Berkley Books after he admitted to fabricating the origins of the book's central love story

 
 
open quoteHave you ever heard of anyone being killed by a shoe?close quote

Dhiaa al-Saadi, lawyer for Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush, arguing that al-Zaidi should face the lighter charge of insulting a visiting head of state, which comes with a maximum two-year jail sentence, rather than assault against a foreign head of state, which could result in 15 years

 
 
open quoteMy understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer.close quote

Playwright David Mamet, on actor Jeremy Piven, who blamed his abrupt departure from a Broadway revival of "Speed-the-Plow" on mercury poisoning

 
 
open quoteI've never heard of a consumer electronic device fail[ing] en masse like this.close quote

Research analyst Matt Rosoff, on a software glitch that caused a temporary, worldwide meltdown of all Microsoft Zune 30 digital music players on New Year's Eve

 
 
open quoteI'll tattoo your name on my ass.close quote

Former basketball player Charles Barkley, pleading with a Scottsdale, Ariz., police officer to let him off the hook after he was pulled over on suspicion of driving while intoxicated

 
 
open quoteI consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.close quote

Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales, announcing that he is writing a memoir about his tenure in the Bush administration

 
 
open quoteWe used to fight about who gets to keep the house. Now we fight about who gets stuck with the dead cow.close quote

Matrimonial lawyer Gary Nickelson, explaining the effect of the economic recession on divorce settlements

 
 
open quoteThere is a 55–45 percent chance right now that disintegration will occur.close quote

Igor Panarin, dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's diplomat academy, predicting the demise of the United States by 2010

 
 
open quoteIt pounds in everybody's conscience every day. Fifty years is something very hard to accept.close quote

Cuban pro-Democracy activist Ramón Saúl Sánchez, on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution

 
 

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