Noteable Quotes

WINSTON is over the moon. He is happy to be back at the office and is now just chilling with his friends. – The Unlimited IT head Kevin Rolfe on how the homing pigeon carried 4GB of data from Howick to Hillcrest in Durban and beating, by far, the time it takes to transfer the same data via a Telkom ADSL line.

HE stumbled and it is a pity… [from] judges, magistrates… to laymen are all equal before court. – Johannesburg magistrate Desmond Nair sentencing Judge Nkola Motata to a R20 000 fine or 12 months’ jail for drunken driving.I’M so sorry for the part I played; because of my negligence she went through all that. I am so sorry we let you down. I had to leave. I just looked at myself and asked if I liked what I saw. I asked if I could really enjoy my life knowing what I know… My conscience was too great. – Caster Semenya’s coach Wilfred Daniels after resigning from his job, claiming the athlete was duped into undergoing gender tests, The Star reported.WE will get the results any day now of the Berlin investigation, then they need to be checked, it’s not something where you have a yes or a no. – IAAF spokesman Nick Davies on the results of Caster Semenya’s gender verification tests.SPENDING so much money on vehicles is a slap in the face of the unemployed and people living in shanty towns. It gives politics a bad name. – The Congress of SA Trade Unions urging ministers who bought cars of a million rand or more to trade them in for more modest transport.I AM really sorry I believed all that racist stuff Brandon said about you guys. – Canadian Melanie Crete-Huntley on her estranged husband and South African citizen Brandon Huntley, who was granted refugee status in Canada, quoted in The Star.WE’RE not talking about people who will go and sit on street corners and beg, we’re talking about people who have skills and can unleash havoc on our country. – PAC president Letlapa Mphahlele arguing against dismissing about 1300 soldiers who took part in a protest over poor wages at the Union Buildings.IF you give me the power to do these things I will get everybody in a very straight and narrow line. – Former SABC board member Andile Mbeki telling Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications why he should be on the board again.BETTER a hundred enemies outside the house than one inside. – Arabian ProverbFrom the history booksI DON’T ‘construct’ characters based on my own life, the author very carefully, over months, constructs a character, and sometimes a character will take over and run away from a writer and construct itself. – Actress Jessica Tandy, who appeared in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and won an Oscar for ‘Driving Miss Daisy’, died on September 11, 1994BEING a reporter seems a ticket out to the world. – Jacqueline Bouvier who married John F Kennedy, later a US president, on September 12, 1953FOR every dark night, there’s a brighter day. – American rap artist, Tupac Shakur, who died on September 13 1996