The always quotable Charlie Sheen
FROM the revolutions that changed the lives of millions after the Arab Spring to the ridiculous sayings and ravings of celebrities (yes, Amy Childs and Charlie Sheen, we do mean you), 2011 certainly had the lot.
"I'm not bi-polar, I'm bi-winning. I win here and I win there." Charlie Sheen describes his troubled year
"I've had a few pints and a few glasses of wine and it all continued until about 30 minutes ago."
Darren Clarke, the morning after he won the Open
"I think she & her husband, like, own the Houses of Parliament."
TOWIE'S Amy Childs on Sally Bercow
"I want you to feel the love that's growing inside of me."
Beyonce announces her pregnancy at the MTV Video Music Awards
"I have always made it so that every woman feels, how should I say, special."
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi
“Rugby player drinks beer, shocker.”
Manager Martin Johnson downplays the England rugby team’s off-field behaviour.
“I don’t feel like his father. How could he just stand there and kill so many innocent people and just seem to think that what he did was OK? He should have taken his own life, too.”
Jens Breivik, father of Anders Breivik who killed 77 people in a bomb blast and gun rampage in Norway in July
“There is no doubt we have killed Osama bin Laden. The fact of the matter is you will not see bin Laden walking on this earth again.”
US President Barack Obama responds to the conspiracy theorists
“This is the most humble day of my life.”
Rupert Murdoch addresses the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee to give evidence on phone hacking, just before he’s hit in the face by a foam pie
“I mistakenly allowed the distinction between my personal interest and my government activities to become blurred.”
Defence Secretary Liam Fox in his resignation letter to the Prime Minister, over the Adam Werritty affair
“Egypt is free!”
Protesters chanting in the streets of Cairo after President Hosni Mubarak steps down
“Fenton! Fenton! FENTON! FENTON! Oh, Jesus Christ. FENTON! Ohh, Jesus Christ. FENTON!”
An unknown dog owner watches as his pet chases deer at London’s Richmond Park, to the amusement of YouTube fans the world over
“We will fight until the last man, until the last woman, until the last bullet.”
Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, son of embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
“We went to Prada and she loved it. It was like she was saying ‘Mummy, I’m home’.”
Victoria Beckham goes shopping with baby daughter Harper Seven
“Why Always Me?”
T-shirt message from eccentric Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli whose antics this year include setting his house onfire by shooting fireworks fromthe bathroom window
“Oh Wow! Oh Wow! Oh Wow.”
The last words of Apple genius Steve Jobs, who died in October from pancreatic cancer
“I am fed up. After 62 years in public service, I have had enough. I want to go.”
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
“I love Hitler.”
Former fashion star John Galliano during a racist rant, which led to him being dismissed as head designer of Christian Dior and found guilty in a French court
“They are not my friends. I don’t speak to them or socialise with them. I have my own friends that I’ve grown up with and the girls are very much my colleagues. Are you friends with your workmates?”
Nadine Coyle on the rest of Girls Aloud
“Amy Winehouse was a genius and has made more brilliant music than I’ll ever make.”
Mark Ronson pays tribute to Amy Winehouse
“We are only in the early stages of what is happening in North Africa and the Middle East, but it is already set to overtake 9/11 as the most important development of the early 21st Century.”
William Hague, Foreign Secretary, talks about the Arab Spring
“Cooper hit me so hard my ancestors in Africa felt it.”
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali on being floored by Sir Henry Cooper, who died in May
“I have a feeling my career has just peaked.”
Colin Firth, accepting his Oscar for The King’s Speech
Did they really mean to say that? The foot-in-mouth howlers of people who should really know better...
"Somebody better get down there and explain offside to her."
Sky's dinosaur football commentator Richard Keys gives his sexist opinion on assistant referee Sian Massey
"Calm down, dear. Listen to the doctor."
Prime Minister David Cameron resorts to mimicking Michael Winner to try and put down Labour MP Angela Eagle
"I'd have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families."
Jeremy Clarkson on how to deal with public sector strikers
"The one affected by this should say this is a game and shake hands."
FIFA president Sepp Blatter's hard-hitting approach to dealing with racist footballers
"Date rape can be as serious as the worst rapes..."
Justice minister Ken Clarke couldn't have got it more wrong on sexual assaults
"There's Tom Harris, Johann Lamont ... and a, er, third candidate who is also putting himself forward."
Ed Miliband can't quite remember it's Ken Macintosh who's the frontrunner for the Scottish Labour leadership
"I cannot stand him. He's a liar."
French president Nicolas Sarkozy is overheard talking about Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu
"You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day."
Barack Obama show's he's just as fond of Mr Netanyahu
"So. We have a gloriously sunny day here. In the studio. We've seen some action. As well. Jessica Ennis. Good night."
Channel 4's Ortis Deley hoped to make a good impression with his commentary style at the world athletics championships. He didn't. And was sacked.
"Let's raise a toast to Tom for organising the stag do, and if we're perfectly honest, to the ideology and thought process of the Third Reich."
MP Aidan Burley raised a glass to these words at a stag do
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