Noteable Quotes

I SAW one of the guys go down after being shot in the legs, and he was still shooting back at the Police. – An eyewitness after the attempted armed robbery near the Ausspannplatz circle in Windhoek on Thursday

GERMAN speakers often have two dots on some vowels of their names, called ‘Umlaut’, and they are not allowed [to use them on number plates] either. – Prime Minister Nahas Angula explaining in the National Assembly how an international convention prevents using Nama-Damara symbols on personalised number platesMADONNA has put Malawi on the map. – Malawian welfare officer Simon Chisale who has handled the star’s adoption cases. The court ruled on Friday that the superstar could not adopt a second child from Malawi I’LL probably frame it. – Prax Sanchez (72) who coughed up an inch-long nail, believed to have been lodged in his face for 30 years, after a MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan. A doctor said the MRI’s magnetic force apparently dislodged the nail, causing Sanchez to cough it upTHEIR behaviour caused chaos. Children screamed and parents became irate. – A Taiwanese newspaper’s April Fools’ Day story that two giant pandas, donated by China, were Wenzhou brown forest bears that had been dyed and spent almost all of their waking hours having sexPATIENCE is also a form of action. – Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917) was a French artist, most famous as a sculptorFrom the history booksALL I’ve done is run fast. I don’t see why people should make much fuss about that. – Dutch sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four gold medals at the 1948 Games. On April 6 1896, the Modern Olympics began in Athens with eight nations participating.