Quotes of the Week - May 5, 2008:
"I am so sorry. I had no idea." -- Elizabeth Fritzl, mother
of the girl kept prisoner in a basement in Austria by her father for 24
years.
"Some of the comments that Rev Wright has made offend me, and I understand
why they offend the American people. He does not speak for me. He does
not speak for the American people." -- Barack Obama on his old pastor.
"I am sure I had it. It's why men want to bonk everything that moves
." -- Singer Chris de Burgh explaining how a mid-life crisis made
him want to have sex with his children's nanny.
Hillary Clinton is talking tough. She said if Israel is ever attacked
by Iran, she would obliterate Iran. Although, she does admire the Iranians
for stoning adulterers. -- Chatshow host Jay Leno.
2008 Quotes of the Year - Top Quotes of 2008
Quotes of the Week - May 5, 2008:
"I am so sorry. I had no idea." -- Elizabeth Fritzl, mother
of the girl kept prisoner in a basement in Austria for 24 years by
her father who fathered seven children with her.
"Some of the comments that Rev Wright has made offend me, and
I understand why they offend the American people. He does not speak
for me. He does not speak for the American people." -- Barack
Obama on his old pastor.
"I am sure I had it. It's why men want to bonk everything that
moves ." -- Singer Chris de Burgh explaining how a mid-life crisis
made him want to have sex with his children's nanny.
Hillary Clinton is talking tough. She said if Israel is ever attacked
by Iran, she would obliterate Iran. Although, she does admire the
Iranians for stoning adulterers. -- Chatshow host Jay Leno.
Quotes of the Week - April 29, 2008:
"A homosexual cannot do the job of a footballer. The football
world is not designed for them. It's a special world in which you
stand naked under the showers." -- Former Juventus general manager
Luciano Moggi.
"If the human race is to continue for another million years,
we will have to boldly go where no on has gone before." -- Professor
Stephen Hawking calls for more investment in space travel.
"My own years as a teenager were marred by a sinister regime
that thought it had all the answers. Its influence grew, infiltrating
schools and civil bodies as well as politics and even religion, before
it was recognized for the monster it was." -- Pope Benedict XVI
on Nazism, speaking to seminarians and young people at St. Joseph's
Seminary in Yonkers, New York, during his first papal visit to the
US.
Quotes of the Week - April 22, 2008:
"We will absolutely exclude pedophiles from the sacred ministry.
It is more important to have good priests than to have many priests."
-- Pope Benedict.
"In the US and Europe over the last year we've been focused on
the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling
their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill
their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day."
-- IMF chief Robert Zoellick.
"I don't need to be on TV on a Saturday night; I do it because
I love helping these performers." -- Composer Andrew Lloyd Weber
hits back at Kevin Spacey's accusations that his reality television
shows are basically just long advertising campaigns for his musicals.
Quotes of the Week - April 14, 2008:
"Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's
a public perception that they are not human beings any more."
-- Writer Salmon Rushdie.
"The Left doesn't even have good taste in women. Ours are more
beautiful and, moreover, all have super degrees." -- Italian
politician Silvio Berlusconi predicts an electoral victory, with
beauty, brains and The Right on his side.
"I feel my entire life up until this moment has crystallised
and come to fruition since I met this woman." -- 53-year-old
action hero Bruce Willis, about 29-year-old underwear model Emma Heming,
who is his girlfriend.
Quotes of the Week - April 7, 2008:
"The evidence provided no basis whatsoever in suggesting that
(Prince Philip) was involved in killing his daughter-in-law, One
of the regrettable features of this case is the number of people
who have told lies in the witness box or elsewhere." -- Lord
Justice Scott Baker, presiding at the Princess Diana Inquest.
"How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful
figure in the world?" -- Film director Oliver Stone, who is
making a movie about President George W. Bush.
"The Chinese have made sure that for a few hours, Paris will
look like Tiananmen Square. I think it's shameful." -- Robert
Menard, of Reporters Without Borders, on the heavy police turnout
promised in Paris to deter protests as the Olympic torch passes
through that city.
Quotes of the Week - March 31, 2008:
"I do not think that is any of your business." -- Chelsea
Clinton, daughter of Hillary Clinton, asked if her mother's credibility
was damaged during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
"Within me, there is a charitable disposition." -- President
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe denies he is a tyrant.
"Vice President Dick Cheney is in Baghdad. While he was in
Iraq, he said that it's a successful endeavour. At least I think
that's what he said. It was hard to hear over the explosions."
-- Chatshow host David Letterman.
"We have enemies for whom no attack is too cruel." --
Presumptive Republican nominee for US President John McCain.
Quotes of the Week - March 24, 2008:
"They can examine my pulse, my urine, my stool, everything."
-- The Dalai Lama invites Chinese authorities to investigate whether
he was behind the rioting in Tibet.
"Even President Bush is starting to get worried about this
economy being out of control, you know. I mean, gold is over $1,000
an ounce. Oil, over $100 a barrel. Hookers, $5,000 an hour."
-- Chatshow host Jay Leno, referring to the Governor of New York's
links to a prostitute.
"I saw a photo of me taken at the wrap party for Miami Vice.
I looked awful. My eyes were dead. That night I got on a plane and
checked into rehab. I was just broken." -- Colin Farrell on
his decision to check into rehab.
Quotes of the Week - March 17, 2008:
"We have no business qualifications, we don't understand marketing,
and we're not very good at it." -- Michael and Xochi Birch,
who are set to make in excess of $850m from the sale of the Bebo
social networking site to AOL.
"Whether intentionally or unintentionally, some kind of cultural
genocide is taking place." -- The Dalai Lama, calling for international
action in wake of Chinese crackdown on rioters in Tibet.
"I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you stranger."
-- The Joker as played by Heath Ledger in the new Batman movie The
Dark Knight set to release this summer. Producers say no edits
will be made to Ledger's dialogue to reflect the actor's death.
Quotes of the Week - March 10, 2008:
"They say fags and booze are bad for you - but I'm still here."
-- Britain's oldest employee Buster Martin, aged 101, after running
a half marathon.
"It's a bit like a Travelodge, minus the mini bar and room
service." -- Englishwoman Kate Knight, jailed for trying to
kill her husband, on prison life. She tried to kill him by slipping
anti-freeze into his wine and curry.
"I saw this crocodile and thought I'd tease it a bit with a
small bit of bait, just to get it in quite close to me for the picture.
I was playing around, pointing at it, laughing - when it suddenly
jumped at me. I didn't realize crocs were so aggressive" --
Novon Mashiah a tourist in Australia's Northern Territory annoyed
a croc beside his boat so much it jumped out of the water at him.
Quotes of the Week - March 3, 2008:
"We shot this on two handicams in three weeks for 100 grand.
We never thought we would be up here tonight." -- Irish singer
with The Frames Glen Hansard accepting the Oscar for best original
song for Falling Slowly, from the film Once.
"I don't think we've ever been moved so deeply." -- Jon
Deak, of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, which made a historic
debut in North Korea.
"Talk is cheap. Flouting the rules is expensive." -- Neelie
Kroes, EU competition commissioner, which fined Microsoft a record
$1,35 billion for failing to fully comply with a 2004 antitrust
order.
Quotes of the Week - Feb 25, 2008:
"He's a man of great character." -- Cindy McCain, wife
of US presidential candidate John McCain, following rumors he had
a fling with a female lobbyist.
"Kosovo is ours! Kosovo is Servia." -- Serb protesters
gathering at US embassy in Belgrade to protest the independence
of Kosovo.
"It's not allowed for a woman to sit with a strange man and
talk and drink coffee together." -- Saudi Arabia defends the
arrest of a US woman for having coffee with a colleague.
"Washington is a place where good ideas go to die." --
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
"People get very snotty when I say I want to bring Mozart to
the masses, but what was Mozart if not a pop star?" -- pianist
and TV presenter Myleene Klass.
Quotes of the Week - Feb 19, 2008:
"My conscience will not allow me to continue with business
as usual." -- Steven Spielberg steps down as artistic adviser
to the Beijing Olympics in protest at China's stance on the conflict
in Darfur.
"I feel like I am 20 again, but with arthritis." -- Sylvester
Stallone, 61, returns as Rambo.
"He would probably not last long, a black man in the position
of president. They would kill him. Hillary is a very sharp lady.
It might be calmer if she wins." -- Nobel Prize winner Doris
Lessing on Barack Obama and the US presidency.
"For the pain, suffering and hurt of these stolen generations,
their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.
To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for
the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry. And for
the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and
a proud culture, we say sorry." -- Australian Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd apologises for the past mistreatment of Aborigines.
Quotes of the Week - Feb 12, 2008:
"We hold in our hands the solution to the global tobacco epidemic
that threatens the lives of one billion men, women and children
during this century." -- World Health Organisation Director-General
Dr. Margaret Chan, launching WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic,
2008.
"Stay natural. I've been through all this. Look at the state
of me." -- Glamour model Jordan (Katie Price).
"We are less of an underdog than we were two weeks ago. Two
weeks ago we were a big underdog, now we're a slight underdog."
-- Barack Obama.
"I think the results last night prove the wisdom of my investment."
-- Hillary Clinton on lending $5m of her own money to her presidential
campaign.
Quotes of the Week - Feb 5, 2008:
"I see this as the beginning of the new age in which we will
communicate with billions of planets across the universe."
-- Yoko Ono on Nasa announcement they will beam into space The Beatles
song Across the Universe.
"I was friends with Hillary Clinton before we started this
campaign. I will be friends with Hillary Clinton after this campaign
is over." -- Barack Obama on his Democratic rival in US presidential
race.
"We had never heard of her. We had to look her up in Wikipedia"
-- Spokesman for Woolworths stores in UK, who were forced to withdraw
a children's bed named "Lolita" after mothers objected
to it.
Quotes of the Week - Jan 28, 2008:
"I know I'm ugly, but I need love like everyone else."
-- Yu Zhenhuan, 29, from China, the world's hairiest man.
"Sorry for being topless." -- How Carla Bruni, official
girlfriend to President Sarkozy of France, once greeted a surprised
British journalist.
"'I'll now have the opportunity to do this 24 hours a day on
a platform that goes on for ever." -- Oprah Winfrey launches
her own digital channel, Oprah Winfrey Network.
Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't
stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going."
-- Heath Ledger speaking to reporters recently. He died this week.
Quotes of the Week - Jan 21, 2008:
"Being a scientologist, when you drive past an accident it's
not like anyone else when you drive past. You're really the only
one that can help." -- Tom Cruise on Scientology.
"Musharraf has destroyed Pakistan. The whole of Pakistan is
drowned in blood." -- Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif
on President Pervez Musharraf.
"He talks about it as though I had laid it all out there for
the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.
That's not how it was." -- Monica Lewinsky on her encounters
with Bill Clinton.
I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with
a dirty mind to a clean house." -- Kathy Lette.
Quotes of the Week - Jan 14, 2008:
"It's not easy and I could not do it if I just didn't passionately
believe it was the right thing to do. I have had so many opportunities
from this country, I just don't want us to fall back. This is very
personal for me. It is not just political. I see what's happening.
We have to reverse it. Some people think politics is a game. It
is about our country. It is about our kids' future." -- A tearful
Hillary Clinton on the US presidential campaign trail in New Hampshire.
"Jerry Springer is an appalling man. This isn't entertainment,
this is an absolute disgrace. We are very unhappy with this so-called
special event." -- Spokesman for America's Little People Organisation
on the US TV host who featured a punch-up involving two midgets.
"People live with their choices, and the choice not to play
by the rules has been compounded by the choice to break the law."
-- Judge Kenneth Karas after sentencing Olympic track star Marion
Jones to six months in prison and two years of probation. Jones
pleaded guilty in October of lying to a federal agent in 2003 about
her use of steroids
"Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with
modest abilities. In reality, he was a colossus." -- Helen
Clark Prime Minister of New Zealand, on the death of Sir Edmund
Hillary, who in 1953 became the first person to climb Mt. Everest.
"Over the last week, I listened to you and, in the process,
I found my own voice." -- Hillary Clinton, thanking voters
of New Hampshire after her victory in the state's Democratic primary
despite pollster predictions that opponent Barack Obama would win.
"Tonight, we sure showed 'em what a comeback looks like."
-- John McCain, after winning the New Hampshire Republican primary
despite declining poll numbers and funding.
Quotes of the Week - Jan 7, 2008:
"You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose." -- Hillary
Clinton, accusing her Democrat rival Barack Obama of lacking substance
ahead of the New Hampshire primary.
"If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up." --
Former Gov. Jesse Ventura on politics and organized religion in
his upcoming book Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!
"She is in dire need of both medical and psychological intervention."
-- Dr. Phil McGraw, after meeting pop star Britney Spears before
her release from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. He later canceled
a one-hour show that was to examine her latest public meltdown .
It's intimidating to think you might be arrested for something on
your blog. On the other hand, this means that these voices on the
blogosphere are being heard." -- Ahmad Al-Omran of Saudi Arabia,
after the country's Interior Ministry confirmed that blogger Fouah
al-Farhan was being held for "purposes of interrogation".