: YOU SAID IT...; Quotes of the week.

Big Brother is ultimately about nothing other than the exhibition of human beings we'd normally cross the street to avoid in real life - TV arts pundit Bon-nie Greer.

When you go abroad, you feel that culture is integral, not a little treat for a day off. Here, we are always talking about art and society. Art is bloody society - Playwright Tom Stoppard.

Let us remember that up in the heavens, as well as satellites beaming us digital television, there is also God - Harry Enfield.

I don't like my face. It's a moon face.It's round, fairly shapeless. And it is now dropping. I rarely look in the mirror - Actor Sir Derek Jacobi.

If we ever have a plan, we're screwed - Notice on the office door of actor Paul Newman.

St Patrick has become the international patron saint of Guinness and is more widely celebrated than any saint other than Santa Claus - TV pundit Ian Hislop.

If there is anything which gets my dander up, it's being called a liar - Feminist Germaine Greer.