Aaron to Avogadro

Bacchus to
Buttafuoco

Caesar to
Cap’n Crunch

D’Amato to
Dukakis

Earheart to Eve

Fonda to Freud

(Kenny) G. to
Gutenberg

Hammurabi to
Hussein

Isabella

Jackson to
Johnson

Kavorkian to
Kreskin

Laffer – Locke

MacArthur to
Mussolini

Napoleon to
Nostradamus

Oedipus to
Oswald

Pasteur to
Pythagoras

Quayle to Queeg

Raleigh to Ruth

Sacco to
Superman

Tarzan to
Tse-Tung

Unabomber
(see also K)

Valdez to
Virgin Mary

Waldheim to
Wright

Xerxes to
Malcolm X

Yeltsin

Zeus

booknotes

Kavorkian to Kreskin

K

Kavorkian, Jack
suicide doctor

Today is the last day of the rest of your life.
--inspirational waiting room sign

Call now and be dead by Christmas! Guaranteed.
--holiday season promotion

 


Kenevil, Evel
daredevil

What are you crazy? I got a wife and kids.
--refusing to fly on USAir


Kennedy, Edward M. (Ted)
U.S. Senator

Mother, when do I get to be president?
--adolescent gripe


Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
35th U.S. President

I got so plastered last night, I went home with some broad who looked like J. Edgar Hoover.
--confession to secret service agent

I know it’s a lot of crap, Bobby. The only ‘missile gap’ is the one in Nixon’s pants.
--following 1960 presidential debate

It's not that I don't find you attractive, but my father wouldn't approve.
--letting Golda Meir down easy


Key, Francis Scott
composer, The Star Bangled Banner

Hey, it beats Yankee Doodle!
--main selling point


Keynes, John Maynard
Keynesian economic theorist

I could have had a V8!
--discovering "opportunity costs"


Khomeini, Ayatollah
Iranian theo-dictator

Extremism in defense of extremism is no vice!
--Despot Nominating Convention, Tehran, 1972


Kid, Billy the
outlaw

Your honor, I just assumed I'd be tried as a minor.


King, Larry
Interviewer

Caller, what's the question?
--answering machine message


King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader

The food is lousy in here.
--postcard from Birmingham Jail

King, Stephen
horror novelist

Please excuse my son from gym today. His body and soul have been possessed by a Satanic force unleashed by a disturbance in a local tribal burial ground.


Kinsey, Alfred
sexual behaviorist

Psst. Down here. Under the bed. Mind if I ask you two a few questions?


Kirk, Captain James T.
Star Fleet Commander

I’m not only captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise. I’m also a client.


Kissinger, Henry
global player

World power is an aphrodisiac.


Klein, Calvin
fashion designer

Screw you and the horse you rode in on.
--nasty words for Ralph Lauren


Koop, C. Everett
former Surgeon General

Also avoid inhaling second hand Vicks Vapor Rub.
--Surgeon's General's Report, 1987


Koresh, David
homicidal cult leader

Am I crazy or is it hot in here?


Kreskin, The Amazing
mentalist

Joyce, I can name that tune in no notes.
--game show appearance


Kuralt, Charles
television journalist

1.6 billion miles @25¢/mi = $40,000,000
--final expense report