Elderly people, babies, the hall was packed. Then suddenly the blast, the whole place flew in the air, darkness, dead people, people screaming. - Maxim al-Karif
head waiter at the Park Hotel in Netanya, where a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 21 Israelis and wounded hundreds who were celebrating Passover.
We don't agree with the execution. We had hoped there would be a proper investigation and then if they were found guilty they should have been imprisoned. The whole thing happened too quickly - the arrest and trial.
- Family of Father Declan O'Toole, who was murdered in Uganda, after two soldiers were executed for the killing after a hastily convened court martial.
Supermodels don't get out of bed for less than $10,000, so she hasn't even got enough to pull back the bedclothes.
- Editor of the Mirror Piers Morgan, after Naomi Campbell won £3,500 damages in a privacy case against the paper.
He was a great barrister and a great judge.
- Mr Frank Clarke SC on Mr Justice Rory O'Hanlon, who died this week.
I try not to be begrudging in any of this. Ronnie Flanagan, like some of the rest of us, has survived for 30 years. He knows a lot of secrets; he's been a key to the repressive arm of the British state; he's out of it, sin é, good luck.
- Sinn Féin president Mr Gerry Adam on the outgoing Chief Constable.
Every faceless woman of colour now has a chance, given that this door has been opened.
- Halle Berry, this year's Oscar winner for best actress
The proposition was put to me and I accepted it.
- Mr Paddy Teahon, speaking after the Cabinet decided he should step aside as chairman and chief executive of Campus and Stadium Ireland Development.
I am mad. I have become a tramp, so I must die.
- Richard Durn, who killed himself 35 hours after he shot dead eight city councillors in a town hall west of Paris.
If errors were made, they will be punished.
- France's Interior Minister, Daniel Vaillant, announcing an investigation into the death of Durn, who jumped out of a fourth-floor window in police HQ.
We have come through five years of a grubby Government whose only priority has been its re-election, a Government headed by a man who would rather open pubs than drive this country forward.
- Labour leader Ruairí Quinn, in his speech at the party conference.
I think that's a likely possibility. The reality is that this Government has worked well.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, when asked if he would form a government with the PDs in a position where he was just a few seats short of a majority.
He was a considerable, sporadic explosion of acting talent. But he was just a wonderful chap. I shall miss him very much.
- Director Michael Winner on actor, musician and comedian Dudley Moore, who died this week aged 66 after a long illness.
We are more optimistic because the international economy is picking up faster than we expected.
- Dr Michael Casey, the Central Bank's assistant director general, on a predicted 3 per cent growth in the economy this year.
To any fan of film or any student of how a great life is lived, all roads lead to Billy Wilder.
- Film-maker Cameron Crowe, on the legendary director who died in California.
Compiled by Declan Fahy