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2008 Quotes of the Year - Top Quotes of 2008 Quotes of the Week - August 25, 2008: "I'll have my staff get back to you on that." -- US Republican presidential candidate John McCain on being asked how many houses he owns (the answer is seven). "I hope the nation and the people will forgive my mistakes." -- Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in his resignation speech. "If they knew the plane was faulty, why did they let it fly?" -- A relative of one of the 153 passengers killed in the Spanair crash at Madrid airport. "I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is." -- John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman seeks parole. His request was denied. Quotes of the Week - August 19, 2008: "Eat, sleep and swim. That's all I can do." -- Olympic champion Michael Phelps explains the secret of his success, a lot of eggs in a 12,000 calories a day diet. "The world just got a little less funny." -- George Clooney's reaction to the death of his friend, comedian Bernie Mac, 50. "This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can invade its neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it. Things have changed." -- Condoleezza Rice on military clashes between Russia and Georgia. "They are steeped in sin and, if eaten long enough for in quantity, will almost certainly kill you." -- Actress Emma Thompson on the scourge of potato crisps. Quotes of the Week - August 11, 2008: "That wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which means I'm running for President. So thanks for the endorsement white-haired dude, and I want America to know I'm, like, totally ready to lead." -- Paris Hilton lampoons a John McCain US presidential campaign video using her image. "I respected him, and he respected me." -- Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, tells a military court he never suspected bin Laden was involved in terrorism until after the 9/11 attacks. "These new bras represent pioneering work." -- Rudiger Carstens, a spokeswoman for the German federal police, which has just introduced the 'bulletproof bra'. "I read the script and it's not bad. The message is I'm a dangerous lunatic, and that I'm possessed by monkeys." -- Singer Iggy Pop on a forthcoming Hollywood movie based on his life. Quotes of the Week - August 4, 2008: "I took him aside and said: 'I posed in the nude.' He said: 'Oh, I like this one. Can I have a print?'" -- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy recalls the moment she told her husband French President Nicolas Sarkozy full details of her modeling career. "[It] is now unimaginable to many people that this court could acquit me. I believe that this fact seriously jeopardises the trial itself." -- On trial at UN war crimes tribunal, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he is victim of media witchhunt. "Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine." -- Guy Ritchie, who is married to Madonna. "He's the biggest celebrity in the world. But is he ready to lead." -- John McCain launched an advertisement asking this question about Barack Obama's suitability for US presidency. "Green protesters are our best passengers. They're always flying off to their demonstrations." -- Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary on why he believes critics of budget airlines are hypocrites. Quotes of the Week - July 29, 2008: "Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?" -- US president George Bush ponders America's financial services meltdown. "Thank God my brother is alive and healthy. He has lost weight but he is normal and reasonable. He knows whether or not he is guilty." -- Luka Karadzic, brother of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, arrested for war crimes. "Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged." -- Pope Benedict XVI. Quotes of the Week - July 22, 2008: "What is the difference between God and Bono? God doesn't wander down Grafton Street thinking he's Bono." -- Irish music promoter and TV personality Louis Walsh. "Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises." -- Pope Benedict XVI on the perils of materialism. "May the cheaters get caught. May they go away." -- Christian Prudhomme, director of the Tour de France, after stage winner Riccardo Ricco tests positive for blood-booster EPO. "I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 per cent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years." -- Al Gore challenges the US to commit to meeting all its electricity needs with renewable sources by 2018. Quotes of the Week - July 15, 2008: "You are my lord, you're my darling, you're my orgy, my charming prince." -- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's tribute to husband, Nicholas Sarkozy, president of France. "Barack, he's talking down to black people. I want to cut his nuts off." -- Jesse Jackson, US Democrat and civil rights activist, about his party's presidential candidate Barack Obama. "Many things that happened in the jungle we have to leave in the jungle." -- Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, refuses to discuss certain details about her six years of captivity in jungles of Colombia. "Europe is a family of 27 nations, we can't leave anyone behind." -- Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, urging European Parliament to speed negotiations over Lisbon Treaty. Quotes of the Week - July 8, 2008: "If I see something sagging, bagging and dragging, I'm going to nip it, tuck it and suck it." -- Dolly Parton reveals her anti-aging procedure. "I get there, I put on clothes, I leave it on the hanger and I go home." -- Gisele Bundchen on the arduous life of a supermodel. Quotes of the Week - July 1, 2008: "What is so special is that you spend 27 years in prison, you come out and you do the thing that everyone thought was impossible to do, become president of the nation and change the way people feel agbhout Africa." -- Oprah Winfrey to Nelson Mandela on his 90th birthday. "We have seen the outbreak of violence against fellow Africans in our own country and the tragic failure of leadership in our neighboring Zimbabwe." -- Nelson Mandela speaks out against Robert Mugabe. "I won't lie to you and say that I always enjoy the campaigning, but when the days get a little long and I get a little frustrated, I remind myself that I have a ringside seat on American history." -- Cindy McCain, wife of US presidential candidate John McCain. "Sixty-six pence per person in the country - less than the price of two pints of milk or a download to an iPod." -- Buckingham Palace spokesman explains the cost of the Queen to British nation. Quotes of the Week - June 24, 2008: "We are not going to give up our country because of a mere X. How can a ballpoint fight with a gun?" -- Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe hints he will cling to power, whatever the outcome of the election for president. "To come out with this kind of hugely expensive and over-the-top burger and to have 80 million people going to bed hungry every night is just to shoot yourself in the foot." -- David Tuciker of War on Want, the anti-poverty group, as Burger King launches a $200 burger, consisting of Japanese-style Wagyu, Italian truffles and Spanish cured ham. "This could revolutionize transport." -- Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe unveils a green scheme under which the city is to provide electric cars that drivers can pick up and drop off wherever they like. 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. Quotes of the Week - June 10, 2008: "Kids, drink responsibly or you'll end up looking like this, not pretty." -- Pop star Lily Allen, in her MySpace blog, after she was carried out of the British Glamour magazine's Woman of the Year Awards by a security guard after getting totally drunk. "I backed off wrongly, sideways like a crab." -- British TV chat show host Michael Parkinson, after being knighted by Queen Elizabeth. "You know who I am, right? I'm researching a part - I'm doing this for a part. I've been clean for a long time. Today was the first time I was relapsing, but you guys saved me. Can you let me go?" -- Tatum O'Neill to police officers who arrested her for allegedly buying crack cocaine from a street dealer. "One of the founding fathers of rock and roll has left the building he helped construct." -- Announcement of the death of Bo Diddley, by his management agency. Quotes of the Week - June 3, 2008: "In some ways the Web is the most important book in the world." -- Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, on the company's e-reader, The Kindle. "This may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind." -- Bill Clinton, husband of US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, on the eve of what political pundits anticipate to be her withdrawal from the Democratic campaign. "The so-called international misers theory is totally unfounded." -- China's commerce minister Chen Deming, refuting Chinese netizens' claim that multinational corporations such as Nokia and McDonald's donated little to help Sichuan earthquake victims. According to Chinese Internet portal Sina.com, corporations have donated or pledged more than $1 billion. Quotes of the Week - May 27, 2008: "Those 20 envelopes won't shake up German democracy." -- Spokesman for Deutsche Post after stamps depicting Nazi leader Rudolf Hess are accidentally issued. "It was painful, and it was a big struggle, and I didn't understand it." -- Madonna reflects on the media uproar over her adoption of a Malawi infant. "I'm at the fish counter and a man, with his 13-year-old daugfhter, is talking to me about sex. Nice to be recognized but, frankly, all I wanted was some clams." -- Kim Cattrall, the randy one from Sex and the City. "There's always someone younger and prettier." -- Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, 35, faces Hollywood reality. Quotes of the Week - May 20, 2008: "I wish for the recovery of my daughter Kerstin, the love of my children, the protection of my family and for people with heart and compassion." -- Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman kept as a sex slave by her father for 24 years thanks people for their support in a handwritten message on a notice board in the square of her home town. "No foreigners allowed." -- Burmese police officer stopping aid workers from entering cyclone-stricken communities in the Irrawaddy Delta. "My wife wouldn't let me retire. She kicks me out of the door at 7am every morning. She's quite a formidable person." -- Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson after his team won the Premier League title. "I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal." -- US President George W Bush explaining why he quite the game in 2003. Quotes of the Week - May 13, 2008: "We have lit the torch on top of the world." -- Climber on Chinese mountaineering team that took Olympic flame to top Mount Everest. "I am not a monster. I could have killed them all, and no one would have known." -- Josef Fritzl, 73, the Austrian man who fathered seven children with daughter he imprisoned in a cellar for 24 years. "Every US President has to have a war." -- Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet President, claiming the US military buildup risks leading to a new cold war with Russia. "We will not just bring our supplies to an airport, dump it and take off." -- Anthony Banbury, UN World Food Program Regional Director, on why relief agencies were having trouble getting food aid to cyclone survivors in Burma. 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". Quotes of 2007 Quotes of 2006 |
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