Quotes of the Month Archive: October 2004

• 'Americans!: You get your chance to vote for real next week. My simple advice to you is this - Don't fuck it up this time.' (Scaryduck)

• 'In polls of British voters, a clear majority consistently backs Kerry over Bush when it is a given a choice between the two men. But throw US television characters into the equation and you get Homer Simpson...[Today]Kerry will give a speech on national security in Green Bay, Wisconsin, then travel to Nevada and New Mexico for campaign rallies. Wisconsin is clearly the place to be today: Bush will be in Richland Centre and Cuba City before leaving the state for a rally in Iowa. Homer Simpson is a cartoon.' (the Guardian)

• 'Have you seen her [Jordan]? I've seen better-dressed wounds.' (Jo Caulfield, Radio 4)

• 'What do I think of the Sun?...I don't think it is necessary to buy this newspaper.' (U. Meier, The Guardian)

• 'This CD is beyond good or bad. It is from a world where concepts such as "unique" and "indispensible" live happily alongside "hilariously, brain-tearingly wrong".' (Guardian review of William Shatner "Has Been")