Anglo-American "Bermuda Grace'' TV series that never got off the ground.

*** "I thought the movie was very good.'' -- Former United Bermuda Party Senator Wendell Hollis, whose house was used in the filming of "Bermuda Grace''.

*** "Our history has shown us that progress is only achieved when black people decide that change is what we must have -- by any means necessary. Let us take heed!'' -- Unnamed writer in the radical student magazine "The Nationalist''.

*** "It is well-known that were many `greats' throughout history that were, or are, homosexual.'' -- The Bermuda Human Rights Alliance in a letter urging MPs to support a proposal by Dr. John Stubbs MP to legalise gay sex. *** "Keep on marching!'' -- Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan to a 600-strong army of anti-gay Christians.

*** "I certainly did not mean to offend anyone. I'm sorry if I did.'' -- Education Minister the Hon. Clarence Terceira after referring to small Portuguese men as "pocket manuals'' at a Bermuda College soccer reception.

*** "It was rude and distasteful. I thought there was no need for that kind of speech to the Queen.'' -- Opposition Leader Mr. Frederick Wade in a response that also surprised many.

*** "Bermuda sells itself to the world as a crime-free state, and it surely isn't.'' -- American Mr. Dexter Mead telling a Boston-area newspaper about being robbed of $300 during a fifth-anniversary holiday in Bermuda.

*** "I have no perception of Bermuda as an offshore financial centre. It's somewhat isolated...with poor telephone facilities and flight service.'' -- Toronto Star business writer Mr. James Dawe in a survey of what the world's press knows about Bermuda as a global financial centre.

*** "Bermuda up until now has been referred to as a paradise. Soon we'll be known as fairyland.'' -- Tourism Minister the Hon. C.V. (Jim) Woolridge during the House of Assembly debate that preceded passage of the Stubbs gay sex bill.

*** "It is a contender -- and this is a personal view -- for the title of Most Boring Place on Earth.'' -- British journalist Mr. John Sweeney on Bermuda in an Observer magazine article about Governor Lord Waddington.

*** "It fits just perfectly, unlike the other one.'' -- Speaker of the House the Hon. Ernest DeCouto on his new $3,000 horse-hair wig.

*** "I named him for Julian Hall, because Mr. Hall wins so much in the courts and I knew that my dog would win in the dog shows.'' -- Warwick resident Mrs.

Zenna Lowthorpe on why she named her prize-winning schnauzer Julian.

*** "I felt a terrible vibration. I was lying in the bed and my bed starts shaking. I don't know what they were burning.'' -- Devonshire resident Mrs.

Natalie Shaw on the testing of the Tynes Bay incinerator.

*** "If an apology needs to be given, I apologise.'' -- Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan on the "oversight'' that prevented some 800 prospective voters from taking part in the UBP's Paget East primary in July.

*** "Stay at a guest house? I paid good money for this trip. I will not stay at any guest house.'' -- Female passenger who objected to being evacuated from the cruise ship Horizon during last summer's Legionnaire's disease crisis.

*** "My position is that I am unable to serve in the Bermuda Regiment, or any other military institution, as to do so would be in contravention of everything in which I believe, and every principle which I hold dear.'' -- Lawyer Mr. Rod Attride-Stirling in a 1992 letter to the Regiment's Exemption Tribunal.

*** "Very few people would have believed, in 1968, that the separateness of blacks and whites in this Country would still be an issue 25 years later.'' -- Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan in a late summer speech on the state of race relations in Bermuda today.

*** "For two hours of sex it can cost up to $1,000. The average price for intercourse is about $100. Oral sex is $50.'' -- 28-year-old pimp and heroin addict on Bermuda's thriving prostitution business.

*** "When it comes to banking, we're up there with Switzerland. But when it comes to health care, we're back in the dark ages.'' -- Dr. Ewart Brown MP on the state of Bermudian medicine at a health care forum in September.

*** "They're calling it San Quinton.'' -- West End resident on the new Westgate Correctional Facility's nickname.

*** "You will always have the shopping people, the die-hards. Even with restrictions, you can't stop Bermudians.'' -- Travel agent Ms Vicki King on the futility of trying to restrict overseas buying by Bermudians.

*** "We might have to find out that the presumption would be guilt, and that you've got to prove your innocence.'' -- Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan mulling over the idea of curtailing civil liberties to fight the Island's drug problem.

*** "If true, this is a scar on our Country.'' -- Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan on the arrest of seven under-23 soccer players as they returned from Jamaica in December.

*** "I think (Bermuda soccer) will fall further before it gets better.'' -- CONCACAF president Mr. Jack Warner.