QuOtes Of the day

I haven’t slept. I feel like a child waiting for Christmas.” Claire Blackman before the release of her husband, Marine Alexander Blackman, whose prison sentence for killing a Taliban fighter was reduced by the Appeal Court.

The crisis with North Korea is at the worst point I have ever seen.” Admiral Harry Harris Jr, head of US Pacific Command.

I think there’s this way where technology can dehumanise and it’s like they are saying something about someone who isn’t there. But I am there and I am real so I have to create some distance.” Harry Potter star Emma Watson avoids social media comments for the sake of her sanity.

If you want to know how to speak Shakespeare, Sir John Gielgud and Frank Sinatra will teach you.” Dame Judi Dench.

I’m normally a burger and chips girl – such a cheap date.” Actress Sheridan Smith.