THIS IS A TEST THAT’S A SURPRISE

I recently ran across a quote which surprised the hell out of me* — not because of what it said, but because of who said it. This made me wonder about other such quotes (serious or humorous), so I decided to do the research and see what I could find. To make it more interesting, I will post the resulting ten quotes and their quotees in separate, unmatched columns. If you can correctly identify more than 100% of who said what, I will call you the wizard of quid pro quoters — not to mention, you’re just….

  1. “I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.“
  2. “There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.” (no, it wasn’t said by Donald Trump)
  3. “You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin.“
  4. “Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. I hope i never get into that.”
  5. “We’re absolutely stupid to be embarked in a business where our face is connected with our accomplishments. When you get it from morning to night, it’s no longer wonderful. No dear public ever did anything for me.“
  6. “Man will not be able to fly for at least another fifty years.“
  7. “Rolls-Royce announced today that it is recalling all Rolls-Royce cars made after 1966 because of faulty nuts behind the steering wheels.”
  8. “I’ll never get married again.“
  9. “I was the first woman to burn my bra–it took the fire department four days to put it out.”
  10. *”The settlement of the North American continent is little the consequence of right in any democratic or international sense; it was the consequence of a consciousness of right rooted solely in the conviction of the superiority and therefore the right of the white race.”

a. David Hasselhoff
b. Adolf Hitler, 1932
c. John Wayne
d. The Wright Brothers, 1901
e. Laura Dern (re the film Jurassic Park)
f. Walter Cronkite
g. Elizabeth Taylor, 1982 (the year she divorced her sixth husband; and yes, she did get married again)
h. Dolly Parton
i. Bill Clinton
j. Cary Grant

Just in case you want to know how well you did, here are the answers: 1.c 2.a 3.e 4.i 5.j 6.d 7.f 8.g 9.h 10. b

What’s that you say? You got all ten (100%) right (which it’s impossible to do better than), so you want to be recognized for your outstanding achievement. OK — so you’re an outliar! Ha ha ha (sorry about that, but this is my blog, so I get the last word).