For someone like me whose muscles don't work very well, it will be bliss to be weightless. - Prof Stephen Hawking, who experienced weightlessness during a simulated space flight.
The rules of humanitarian law are being flouted by all sides . . . all factions are equally guilty of indiscriminate violence in a civilian area.
- UN humanitarian affairs chief Sir John Holmes commenting on the violence in Somalia between Islamist and Ethiopian-backed factions.
I am convinced that the Chernobyl zone is coming alive . . . and step by step we will begin to develop the possibilities of this territory.
- Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko, speaking on the 21st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
The emergence of the mobile phone and the rise of text-messaging as a popular means of communication would appear to have impacted on standards of writing.
- The Department of Education's chief examiner in English, who suggested that text-messaging was damaging the standard of the written language.
I'm a supporter of President Bush, but I do believe he's a bad, or inadequate, communicator.
- Rupert Murdoch.
I want only one thing: to rally the French people around a new French dream.
- French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, who won the most votes in the first round of the French election.
However uncomfortable it is, it proves this was journalism. This was news and a material advance in the story.
- Brian Williams, of NBC Television in the US, defending the decision to broadcast a diatribe filmed by the Virginia Tech shooter.
There's something to that - there might be a little Bush fatigue now.
- Former US president George Bush saying that his youngest son, Jeb Bush, would be a presidential contender if he had a different last name.
This man certainly was pronounced dead and, some time later, I understand he was very much alive.
- An insider at the Mater hospital, Dublin, where a man was declared dead but was subsequently found not to be.