Smartest quotes of 2007

'Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a Jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed and a jackass who pays for everything.'
— Paris Hilton

'My dear, I thank you. But although I still have the desire, I lack the device.'
— Peter O'Toole to a flasher in the lift of a New York hotel.

'I can't see it happening somehow. We don't airbrush to that extent.'
— Hugh Hefner, responding to curvy Kelly Osbourne's wish to appear in the magazine.

"The president is really sorry he couldn't be here tonight. ... His book club is meeting."

— Dick Cheney, at the 2007 Gridiron dinner

"A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my Vice President had shot someone. Ahhh, those were the good old days."

–George W. Bush, at the 2007 Radio-TV Correspondents' dinner

"I wish the Iranian people well, and only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours."
- Oliver Stone, after being refused from filming a documentary about Ahmadinejad in Iran

"Pot. It mightn't kill you, but it could turn you into a dickhead."
- The tag line in an Australian government ad to discourage teenage use of marijuana

"There were only two of them, but they made a whole frontage: huge, compelling, pneumatic. They burst out of tight red dresses--preferably red--or teased among feather boas, or flanked a dizzying cleavage that plunged to tantalising depths. These were celebrated, American breasts, engineered by silicon to be as broad and bountiful as the prairie. With them, a girl from nowhere--or from Houston, Texas--could do anything. The body behind them waxed and waned, sometimes stout as a stevedore's and sometimes almost waif-like, matching the little-girl voice; but the Breasts remained."
- The Anna Nicole Smith obituary in The Economist