“What are you doing? Are you abandoning the rescue? Captain, this is an order, I am the one in charge now. You have declared abandoning ship. There are already bodies.” A Coastguard official instructs Costa Concordia’s captain, Francesco Schettino
“If you dream of beating me, you’d better wake up and apologise.” From the archives: In honour of Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday.
“I realise you may be disappointed by this decision, but you were in competition with many fantastic universities and following your interview I am afraid you do not quite meet the standard of the universities I will be considering.” Law student, Elly Nowell’s mock-up ‘letter of rejection’ for University of Oxford.
“Polls? I take them with a pinch of sugar.” Ed Miliband sugar-coats a famous phrase.
“When you play sexy you’re kind of playing just for men. That is something you have to police and turn it on its head.” Hollywood actress Michelle Williams’ insightful interview to accompany her underwear shoot in GQ.
“We’ve had offers for players that we won’t accept and we’ve had offer to buy players that we’ve turned down so it’s a January merry-go-round at the moment.” Karren Brady on all the fun of the transfer window.
“Hamilton may seek to leave McClaren. It may be something he feels he needs to do, like leaving home.” Damon Hill on Lewis Hamilton’s future in racing.
[Melissa McCarthy] made her mark in comedy this summer by defecating into a sink [In the film Bridesmaids]. Amazingly, that’s still less demeaning than what most of you have done to make it in show business.” Ricky Gervais was his charming self at the 2012 Golden Globes.
“Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.” Twitter’s chief executive, Dick Costolo on why they didn’t join Wikipedia in the protest blackout.
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