Laura Pumphrey, 11 May, LondonQUOTES OF THE YEAR NOMINATIONS - 1996
"I come cheap nowadays."
Monica Cook, 8 January, London
"T-shirts are the only way I know where I've been."
Carolyn Wessels, 29 January, Phoenix
"I can't stand sitting next to someone who's waist is smaller than my thighs."
Cathy Booth, 11 February, South Miami Beach
"I could do that if I had a different body"
Laura Pumphrey, 29 February, Merribel, France
"Could Dave have had Kelly? -- Dr John Joseph
"If he'd been a different person" -- Colleen Lamarque
2 March, Geneva
"I can't remember whether you really liked it or really hated
it, but either way it makes a good present."
MD Cauthen, 10 April 1996, Columbia SC
"Just like sex, sometimes it gets messy." Laura Pumphrey, 11 May, London
"The older I get, the better I was." (T-Shirt)
Rob Taggart, May, Auckland
(Embargoed until December 1996)
Rob Taggart, 3 June, Hong Kong
"Oh God, Maggie, you once swam in Bali and dived off junks in the South China Sea, and now you're reduced to a south London swimming Pool?
Robert Basler, 6 June, Washington
"There is living proof to never let your biceps get bigger than your brain".
Chee Lung, 15 June, Hong Kong
"This can't be England -- the sky is blue."
British passenger, 21 June, Eurostar Chunnel Egress,France
"Insecurity ends at 50."
HA Frere, 24 June, London
"He married that Mercedes, his wife just happened to be in it."
Peter Rockwell, 7 July, Pittsburgh
"Falling in love, just like corn on the cob -- eat it today and shit it tomorrow."
GW Armstrong, 8 July, Union Grill, Washington,Pa.
"The yuppies of America have done in Fidel -- it's only a question of time."
Steve "Froggy" Morris, 9 July, Pittsburgh
"There is a mathematical formula for compromise."
Wolfgang Rattay, 21 July, Atlanta
"The Minister of Transport needs good shoes."
Kevin Lamarque, 2 August, Atlanta
"How was I to know. I couldn't log on so I didn't know about the star system."
Amy Ofsthun, 4 August, London
"We might be on the same train but we are on different rails."
Kevin Lamarque, 25 August, London
"Kevin, don't forget women have their uses at the end of the day."
Laura Pumphrey, 25 August, London
"He doesn't feel the same things we feel, he's like Spock on the Enterprise."
Charles Greenway, 25 August, London
"Sorry for the delay. We are waiting for the chef to calm down."
Ian the waiter, 14 September, Cricklehowell, Wales
"Whoever is writing the script for your life -- you should fire them."
DJ Viggers, 25 September, London
"Even a Diet Coke would feel homesick in Kirkjubearklaustur."
Jerry Lampen, 10 October, Kirkjubearklaustur, Iceland
"What a butt-head. I get no mention of my CD, and there are two quotes from Kevin Cooney and none from me. This is bogus."
Robert Basler, 26 November, Washington
It's journalism, it's all sleasy. What does it matter?
Joey Reaves, November 24, Hong Kong