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((speech, 30th March 1940)) Although the fate of Poland stares them in the face, there are thoughtless dilettanti or purblind wordlings who sometimes ask us, `What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?` To this I answer, `If we left off fighting you would soon find out!`

- Winston Churchill

(Murphy said he is particularly appalled by speeches made by attorneys in TV courtrooms. Sam Waterston (as Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy on) Law & Order ... the witness sits mute, the judge stares and the defense attorney seems to be Crazy-Glued to his chair.

- John Murphy

It was only stares and swearwords really, nothing serious. I just laugh about it because they can hardly speak proper English.

- Kevin Pieterson

When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

This was the area that was the worst hit. We went out there. We ended up on the way treating a lot of policeman and military people who had been attacked by looters, ... One guy, a big burly policeman, had a bite on his hand. A female apparently dived through a window and wanted to get his gun to try to kill herself. We were seeing things like that. There were a lot of traumatized people walking around with blank stares.

- Barry Belcourt