Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patton Oswalt

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

Vinton Cerf

Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.

Richard Leakey

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

Verne Lundquist

There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!

Will Oldham

If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a relationship. Recording for the BBC you enter into this strange and wonderful, but kind of sterile, place with which you have no personal history, and that's the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London.

Christopher Isherwood

You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.

It sounds like Senator Kennedy is echoing President Bush's State of the Union message.

It's unbelievable the lengths this man will go to -- and I'm talking about Ken Starr -- to harass people in this mess.

It may not be the usual way of doing it. In fact, I know it's not. But if we're going to run in the Kentucky Derby, I want a live horse, not one that's used up.

Rudy Gay

It?s going to be a different type of game. Kentucky has size and they have versatility.

It's something I've been wanting to do for 20 years. The Kentucky River is so interesting and offers so much opportunity.

Edward Kennedy

As long as a Kennedy has a voice, we'll be standing with you and the AFL-CIO.

Jim Bunning

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

Chuck D.

He really brightened the whole room up. Even with the situation he's in, he still worries about the team more than himself. Ken is a strong man. He's going to go out there and do whatever it takes to get back.

Irvin S. Cobb

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Geraldine Ferraro

Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.

John Catsimatidis

I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!'

Hunter S. Thompson

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

Jo Brand

I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

Eric Alterman

Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

Neal Stephenson

The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

John Calipari

The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.

Pamela Anderson

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

Sometimes people get discouraged about the work, but when we get to the Kennedy Center, they'll see what we worked for.

Margo Martindale

I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you.

Mark Twain

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

Noam Chomsky

Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate tobacco farms in Kentucky? They are producing a lethal substance far more dangerous than cocaine. More Colombians die from tobacco-related illnesses than Americans die from cocaine. Of course, Colombia has no right to do that.

Wendell Berry

It is a fact that the entire Kentucky River system, which the central part of the state complacently depends upon for its future water, is deteriorating rapidly because of strip mining, because of bad farming, because of industrial and agricultural pollutants, because of urban sewage. It is deteriorating, that is to say, because almost nobody cares, or cares to know, where water comes from, so long as it keeps coming.