Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
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Eddie Izzard Quotes, Famous Eddie Izzard Quotes, Quotations
"Cake
or death?" "Cake, please." Eddie Izzard Imagining how a Church of England Inquisition
might have worked
Guns
don't kill people. It's those bullets ripping through the body. Eddie Izzard
How
to survive boarding school. Do not express emotion, do not feel
emotion, do not have emotion. If someone hits you, hit them
back; if someone argues with you, argue back - never give an
inch, never look vulnerable and you will survive. Eddie Izzard
I
like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. Eddie Izzard
I
wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less. Eddie Izzard
I
want to succeed in America where, unlike Britain, they do not
regard ambition as being the same as eating babies. Eddie Izzard
I'm
a one-man idiot. Eddie Izzard
That's
how you build an empire. We stole countries with the cunning
use of flags. Sail halfway around the world, stick a flag in.
"I claim India for Britain." And they're going, "You
can't claim us. We live here! There's five hundred million of
us." "Do you have a flag?" "We don't need
a flag, this is our country you bastard." Eddie Izzard
Women
have this vast variety of lingerie, stockings and tights and
different patterns, and shoes, with different-sized heels, in
red and black, and skirts - short, long, with slits - push-the-boob
things … there's so much around in women's things that
is erotic. While men have: shirt shirt shirt jumper shirt jumper
jacket jumper shirt jacket trousers trousers shirt trousers
flat shoes. Eddie Izzard
You
piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants. Eddie Izzard
Eddie
Izzard: British comedian and actor. Born 1962.
Sex
and the City
