Quotations Of The Day

“Have you seen ‘Titanic?’ That’s exactly what it was.” — Valerie Ananias, 31, a schoolteacher from Los Angeles, after a luxury cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, ran aground late Friday off the coast of Italy, killing at least three people.

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“I’d have a brick wall across the border. They make all the rules down in London and haven’t got a clue what goes on up here.” — Janice Black, a resident of Stirling, Scotland, as the country is poised to vote on a referendum to secede from Britain by 2014.

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“We want an end of dictatorship. We don’t want to reinvent the old regime through a new dominant ruling party.” — Essam Sultan, a leading member of the Al-Wasat Party in Egypt, in an oblique reference to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is trying to strong-arm the country’s new parliament.