Boom, boom, boom, and we were just dropping, dropping, dropping, dropping. Jamie Winegar, whose car was on the bridge in Minneapolis when it collapsed, sending dozens of vehicles into the Mississippi river.
We shared a great hunk of our lives together. We were a hell of a team.
Musician Liam Clancy paying tribute to colleague Tommy Makem, who has died at the age of 74.
There is a crisis in our justice system which has led to a collapse in public confidence in the ability of the gardaí and the State to prosecute sex crimes.
Kate Mulkerrins, legal co-ordinator of the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland, which has produced a report indicating that 95 per cent of sexual assault cases reported to gardaí will never reach court.
He told me that he was afraid he would die on a very, very sunny day, and I can only hope it was overcast and he got the weather he wanted.
Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish film director, who has died at the age of 89.
There are also fears among Irish parents that their children are falling behind where the numbers of non-Irish students are particularly high. The fear is that Irish parents will just move on and take their kids elsewhere.
Conor Lenihan, Minister of State with responsibility for integration, expressing concern that some Dublin suburbs were becoming too concentrated with foreign nationals.
It is great to think that someone came into my shop to buy a ticket over the last few days and is now a multi-millionaire."
Barry Twomey, owner of the shop in Farranree, Cork, which sold the winning ticket in last week's record €16 million Lotto jackpot.
This is going to take a long time in Iraq, just like the ideological struggle is going to take a long time.
US president George W. Bush saying that the Iraq war will probably continue after his term in office ends.
Look, this isn't the 15th century. You can't go around the world and plant flags and say "We're claiming this territory".
Canadian foreign minister Peter MacKay rejecting any threat to Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic after Russia planted a flag on the seabed beneath the North Pole.
I simply cannot imagine our soldiers carrying a Made in China knife in their knapsacks. It would be like us giving them German-made chocolate.
Alois Kessler, a former colonel in the Swiss army, amid speculation that manufacture of the iconic Swiss Army Knife is to be moved to China.
We are no longer going to be part of the security forces, we are going to be part of the community.
Lt-Gen Nicholas Parker, commander of British forces in Northern Ireland. The British army has ended military operations in the North after 38 years.
It is sad that we cannot receive our national team in a public celebration, as others do.
Mohammed Kadhom, an official in the Iraqi oil ministry, speaking after Iraq won the Asian Cup. Security concerns mean that the victorious team will not be able to parade the trophy through the streets of Baghdad.
I identify with Christian values, but what have those got to do with going to bed with a prostitute? This is a private matter.
Italian deputy Cosimo Mele, of the conservative UDC party, after being caught in flagrante with a call-girl.
They have a recruitment agency, and they're recruiting like mad - I don't know what for.
An employee of Xerox in Dublin, who learned just weeks after he was hired that his job might be outsourced.
We have become detached from the Earth. We have abandoned her. The man who abandons nature has begun to abandon himself.
The Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Dr Michael Neary, taking a leaf from Al Gore's book.