Being arrested was the hardest part. It was terrifying. I've always known an awful lot about what has happened to people through the years and I thought "Am I going to be tortured here? Am I going to be abused? How am I going to be treated? Will they slam the door and lock me up?"
- Elaine Moore, on her return to Dublin after British authorities dropped terrorist charges against her
I don't want his sorrow. I've lost a professional young man, my beautiful son. I feel today as if a steamroller has run over me. We've kept going on throughout this. But we have nothing and we still don't have our son.
- Eileen Jones, on Garda Martin Shankey-Smith, whose sentence for a drink-driving incident in which her son, Alan, died, was rescinded on appeal
A bad joke, that shows the true face of Benjamin Netanyahu: no to peace, no to fresh hope.
- Labour Knesset member Yossi Beilin, on the appointment of Ariel Sharon as Israeli Foreign Minister
Paul Gascoigne will die young if he doesn't change his lifestyle very quickly.
- British addiction counsellor Steve Jacobs, on the footballer's drink problem
I'm free to love and serve again.
- Imelda Marcos, after her acquittal by the Philippines Supreme Court of corruption charges
Well, we are where we were in the morning, which is where we were yesterday.
- Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Belgrade, on his talks with Slobodan Milosevic, shortly before the Kosovo breakthrough
The heat is still on . . . We will be looking for clear indications of actions . . . moving forces back to their barracks . . . lifting the heavy-handed repression from the backs of the civilian population.
- Holbrooke
Copies of my book are on sale in the lobby.
- Holbrooke plugs his book, To End A War, during his announcement of the deal in a Belgrade hotel
You don't even let me sneeze! Can you see how the President's health is? Well, here I am.
- Boris Yeltsin, commenting on press reaction to his early return from a trip to central Asia
She is a goddess. I am in love with her.
- Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman on the British Shadow Health Secretary, Ann Widdecombe
My latest obsession is accessories becoming clothing - a skirt that becomes a bag, a backpack that becomes a vest.
- Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer
Alan Black was shot first and the others just fell on top of him. They lay in a pile on the road like dogs.
- Beatrice Worton, recalling the 1976 Kingsmill, south Armagh, massacre in which her son, Kenneth (23), along with 11 others, died
I'm still in the learning stage. - Michael Owen, England and Liverpool footballer
I'm not coming in here saying this was a great win tonight. We expected to win. It was expected. I've been listening to it all week that we are going to get a handful of goals. In the end we got five and it's a good victory. Can't do any more.
- Ireland soccer coach Mick McCarthy, on his team's defeat of Malta
He has two chances - slim and no chance. And slim is out of town.
- Boxing promoter Don King, on Lennox Lewis's chances of beating Evander Holyfield in the proposed world title fight