Sound bites: July - September 2002

You know the trouble with the French, they don't even have a word for entrepreneur.
George W. Bush, US president (perhaps apocryphal)

I wasn't even in the index.
Edwina Currie, British Conservative politician on John Major's autobiography

Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke.
Colin Firth, British actor

When I die I want my friends to eat me. I want to be fed through a wood chipper, then be spread over a wheat field, then have a cake baked from the crop for all my pals to lunch on.
Larry Hagman, American actor

It's brought out the housewife in me I never knew existed.
Liz Hurley, British model and actress on motherhood

I am always on the side of women. Women should be more than equal for the next few centuries. They should be superior. Then they can settle the account.
Mira Markovic, wife of Slobodan Milosovic, former Serbian president

Blair, keep your England and let me keep my Zimbabwe.
Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg

The fact is that even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and mind and spirit are not diminished.
Christopher Reeve, American actor

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive. Once you start doing only what you've proven you can do, you're on the road to death.
Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian

What freedom means is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour's freedom to sing a different tune in his.
Tom Stoppard, British dramatist

All I did was lead them to the water. They drank copiously.
Sam Torrance, Scottish golfer on his European team winning the Ryder Cup

By the time you hit 50, I reckon you've earned your wrinkles, so why not be proud of them?
Twiggy, British model

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