Quotations

Sound bites: October - December 2001

Our quarterly round up of quotes from those making the headlines.

Tony Blair, British Prime Minister

Trekking through the Amazon pales into insignificance. It was the worst journey I've ever done.
of a train journey from Dorset to Liverpool which took 15 hours instead of 9

John Blashford-Snell, British explorer

The problem with beauty is that it is like being born rich and getting poorer.

Joan Collins, British actress

I know I'm going to become a role model so I suppose I'll have to stop being pictured being thrown out of nightclubs at two in the morning.
on playing Hagrid in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor

It won't beam you to Mars or turn lead into gold. So sue me.
after the much hyped `Segway' vehicle was finally revealed to the public

Dean Kamen, American inventor and businessman

He is really just my baby brother.
on the death of George Harrison

Paul McCartney, English pop singer and songwriter

My writing is like fine wine; the more you read, the more you get from it. Reading it once is like taking a dog to the theatre.

V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Economics can never be clear and unambiguous. Ultimately, it will be a political decision.
on the `five economic tests that define whether a clear and unambiguous case can be made' for joining the single currency

Gus O'Donnell, British Treasury official

We are treated as special. we get away with things that other people can't. And you start to believe the lie that you are special.

Brad Pitt, American actor

Our co-operation and assistance with those people would clearly take a turn south.
on the possibility that Afghan opposition groups would reach a settlement with the Taliban inconsistent with American war aims

Donald Rumsfeld, American Republican politician and businessman

It was only BBC people who liberated this city. We got in ahead of Northern Alliance troops.
on the fall of Kabul

John Simpson, BBC World Affairs editor

Yes, time flies and where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

Mike Tyson, American boxer

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