We live in rural areas and are entitled to build our homes as we see fit, not half doors over which we can look out and smoke pipes like Peig Sayers.
- Senator Marc MacSharry tells the Seanad why he believes An Taisce should not have a role in planning matters.
If anyone tries to discuss the rights and wrongs about [ future tests] and apply pressure, we will be forced to take physical actions of a different nature.
- A North Korea foreign ministry spokesman warns that Pyongyang will continue to ramp up its missile programme.
They are our children. They do exist, they are frozen in a clinic.
- The women at the centre of the frozen embryo case, addressing the High Court.
Seven out of 11 Italy players are from Juventus, Milan and Fiorentina. It's not a national side, it's a team without a home.
- Emanuela Audisio, a fan of Italy, who play France in the World Cup final tomorrow. Several top Italian club sides face relegation in an inquiry over corruption.
It was just complete pandemonium. A man was carrying his child, people were crying. The two of us were saying, it was most frightening experience we ever had.
- Sinead Coffee, who was in Dublin airport when a man claimed he was carrying a bomb, triggering panic.
Superman is very Christ-like. There are so many things that point to it being that way. He doesn't care who you are, what you look like or what you believe, he'll help you.
- Brandon Routh, who dons the red and blue cape of Superman in a new movie.
I'm a bike guy, and I like to plug in music on my iPod when I'm riding along, to hopefully help me forget how old I am.
- President Bush contemplates turning 60.
We're heading down a dark valley now, I think. Bush is a very short-term man. There's no long-term vision at all.
- Broadcaster and writer Garrison Keillor, voice of the American midwest.
We're being pushed, pushed, pushed all the time - don't be surprised if things happen.
- David Hicks, an Australian held at Guantánamo Bay, warns more prisoners may attempt suicide.
I can't think of a better place to be on the Fourth of July
- Steve Lindsey, commander of the shuttle Discovery, which has made its much delayed return to space.
At times I was wondering if it was ever going to end. I was talking to myself the whole time.
- Tennis player Dennis Nestor, involved in a six-hour mixed doubles match at Wimbledon - the longest in the history of the championships.
Sophia is an icon - eternal woman. She can do anything.
- Valeria Marini, an Italian TV presenter, amid rumours that Sophia Loren is to pose for the risque Pirelli calendar at the age of 71.
We cannot recognise or accept these results. There are lots of irregularities.
- Señor López Obrador, one of the two frontrunners in the Mexican presidential race, alleges serious irregularities in voting.
What was achieved by your kissing the little boy Nikita on the stomach?
- A question submitted by a Russian voter to President Putin, who fielded queries from the public in a live webcast.
It is not even a good forgery.
- James Beck, professor of art history at Columbia University, New York, believes that Duccio's Madonna and Child, for which New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art paid $45 million, is a fake.