Friday, January 1, 2010

Quotable quotes

'You don't get a gold star on your forehead for being the first one to open. We are going to open when it's right.'
SHELDON ADELSON, Las Vegas Sands chairman, on rival Resorts World Sentosa opening before Marina Bay Sands


'In the quietest water swims the ugliest fish.'
HELEN ALFREDSSON, Swedish golfer, on Tiger Woods' philandering ways


'If the climate was a bank, they would have already saved it.'
HUGO CHAVEZ, Venezuelan's President, addressing the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen


'I am an ordinary person, a father, a husband, a brother, an uncle, a friend. I have a family, made up of a wife, two sons and a daughter. We go to family get-togethers, we go out. We play sports.'
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iran's President, in response to comments about how he is viewed as a bogeyman in the West


'He has the left foot of Maradona, the switch of rhythm of Cruyff and the lethal passing of Ronaldinho.'
Barcelona newspaper El Mundo Deportivo, on LIONEL MESSI, who won the World Player of the Year award at a Fifa gala ceremony in Zurich

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