The problem with guns that are hidden is you can't see their smoke.
- White House spokesman Ari Fleischer after UN weapons inspectors fail to uncover evidence of illegal weapons in Iraq.
Our success is in the hands of Allah and Allah shall repel the schemes of the infidels.
- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
We are not going to allow ourselves become extinct.
- John Dillon, president of the Irish Farmers' Association.
I am not surprised by anti-Americanism, but it is a foolish indulgence. For all their faults - and all nations have them - the US is a force for good.
- British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
Acting is a vocation. I'd rather pay the bills with any other means on God's earth than by performing.
- Actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
I have always had the highest admiration for the Kerry supporters.
- Kingdom manager Páidí Ó Sé apologises for describing Kerry people as "animals".
The biggest problem you will have with them is to get them to stop work and go home at the end of the day.
- Patrick Coyle, owner of PC Recruitment, encourages Irish meat companies to hire Nepalese butchers.
We have to ask ourselves, can we afford to leave it idle like that, because from any business point of view a huge asset like that should be making money, not losing money.
- Sean Kelly, incoming president of the GAA, indicates he favours opening Croke Park to other sports.
Almost no picture that appears in GQ . . . has not been digitally altered in some way.
- Dylan Jones, editor of men's magazine GQ, admits that shots of actress Kate Winslet were manipulated to make her look thinner.
I wouldn't leave a 21-year career to come to a firm and sell it in six months time.
- Kelly Martin, new chief executive of Elan pharmaceuticals, insists he is there for the long haul.
I think it might be irresponsible not to sell them and to generate something one can do some good with.
- James Hewitt says he will auction intimate love letters from Diana, Princess of Wales.
We thought we had left all of this behind.
- Father Aidan Troy as loyalist paramilitaries plant a pipe-bomb outside Holy Cross primary school in Belfast.
Sanctions mean a war and war knows no mercy.
- North Korea's central news agency after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warns Pyongyang to shut its experimental nuclear plant in Yongbyon and allow expelled IAEA inspectors back into the country.
I haven't slept. I haven't eaten. I can't believe it.
- Cecilia Ahern, daughter of the Taoiseach, after securing a $1 million publishing deal for her as yet unfinished debut novel.
These mindless thugs, because that is all they are, don't have the bottle to come and face me myself. So they come like a thief in the night.
- Johnny Adair on the escalating feud between Belfast loyalists.