Mr [Frank] Callanan , with the greatest respect sir, is beginning to jump up and down with the frequency one would normally associate with the bloomers of members of the oldest profession.
- Mr Colm Allen SC at the Flood tribunal
I would like to be Jupiter and kissing everybody and lie down in the firmament making love to everybody.
- Italian actor Roberto Benigni, overwhelmed by winning at the Oscars
The modern German economic miracle is that there are any jobs at all in Germany.
- MIT professor Paul Krug man at the IBEC annual conference
The cards are stacked against us.
- The Minister for Agriculture, Mr Walsh, on hopes for Agenda 2000
This lawlessness will inevitably result, sooner or later, in catastrophe. The Leviathan is reborn.
- Commentator Vincent Browne on bombing Yugoslavia
Serbs them right
- The Irish Mirror offers another point of view
We want more actors with bums and hips. They are so rare these days. There wasn't a single bum or hip to be seen at the Oscars.
- Author and academic Germaine Greer
The truth is out there, just like in that famous song. The answer is flowing in the wind.
- Mr James Gogarty at the Flood tribunal
I'm done with it. I never say never but I'm never playing again.
- US tennis player Andre Agassi reacts to the sacking of the US Davis Cup team doctor
I am prepared to stretch this leadership, and our constituency, provided Mr Trimble is prepared to stretch with me.
- Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams
The greedy have always said that we have to make money before we can share it. That time has now come.
- SIPTU economist Paul Sweeney
Looking at something, anything, is more interesting than doing anything else, ever.
- Artist and critic Patrick Heron, who died this week
They gave me a broken el bow, four broken fingers and puncture wounds to my legs. I'm not afraid of them - a bunch of cowards. They're scum.
- Ian Price (13), Co Down, the victim of a so-called punishment beating
When someone is kicked to death in full view of police officers, it seems strange a conviction is not possible and that sufficient evidence was not able to be presented.
- SDLP Assembly member Brid Rodgers after Marc Hobson was found not guilty of Robert Hamill's murder
I hear that an MP, convicted of making a false election-expenses return, has been ordered to do community service. Isn't that what MPs are supposed to do?
- Jason Barbour in a letter to the London Times
I thought the blacklist was me and Hattie McDaniel.
- Whoopi Goldberg, referring to the controversy over Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar and the fact that she and McDaniel, of 1939's Gone With The Wind, are among the few black actors to win Oscars
A man came up to me and asked me to sign an old George Best annual. It was David Beckham's dad.
- Soccer legend George Best
We are victims, because we are for the law of power . . . We are for the power of law, excuse me. NATO is for the law of power.
- Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, Vuk Draskovic
In this war we have to win, there is no giving up, whining or stepping aside. This war was imposed on us . . . and our defence will last as long as their attacks.
- Serbian deputy prime minister, Vojislav Seselj