"It wasn't a big thing for me. I've had bigger arguments with my toenails" - Liam Gallagher on what brought about his brother Noel's departure from Oasis.

"I thought, better to get out while I'm still alive" - Hollywood star George Hamilton explaining why he quit I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

"I have an absolutely flawless capacity to get things wrong. It's quite extraordinary. If you want to bet on the horses, or the US elections, before going to Ladbrokes, get me to call and then bet the other way. It never fails" - Actor Colin Firth.

"I have no experience of bad sex. There is no bad sex with me" - Actor Charles Dance.

"After Gordon Brown was admitted to a secure hospital in the summer of 2010, Mandelson crossed the floor of the Lords to become a Tory peer" - Design guru Stephen Bayley's prediction in a mock obituary of the Business Secretary.

"I ask for a whiff of danger to be put back into buildings, for the deregulation of the landscape" - Michael Gove, shadow schools secretary, who wants to fly the flag for "architecture that isn't safe".

"People come to know themselves at different times. I was 49 before I understood who I was" - Actor Sir Ian McKellen.

"They blew it up and I was like man, whatever" - Singer Chris Brown saying his "rant" about hip-hop mogul Jay-Z had been exaggerated.

"I consider my entire movie career a complete failure" - Hollywood star Alec Baldwin, who is quitting acting.

"I cannot think of a single year in the recent history of Parliament when more damage has been done to it than this year, with the possible exception of when Nazi bombs fell on the chamber in 1941" - Commons Speaker John Bercow.

"For what we are about to receive, thanks be to the cook" - What atheist Richard Dawkins said when asked to say grace before a meal.

"Wind farms divide communities, ruin landscapes, affect tourism, make a minimal contribution to our energy needs and a negligible contribution towards reducing carbon dioxide emissions" - The Duke of Northumberland.