"You've got great legs."

"Thank you, but these aren't my legs. They're New York's."

- from a conversation last week with The Politician (thankfully back from Iraq intact).

Which leads me to this fantabulous quote:

... he adores her the way short ambitious men adore beautiful women who are taller than they are but tolerate their advances.

In this case, he is Nicolas Sarkozy, and she, bien sur, is his sometimes wife, Cecilia.

[The New Yorker]