A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job.

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

The gospel moves us to see others as people created in God's image and that can have a profound impact on people's productivity and work satisfaction.

I want to be fearless.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?

That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

It's our dreams that keep us going, that seperate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.