"Famous Words"  
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"I have always found strangers sexy." - Hugh
Grant, six months before he was arrested
with stranger Divine Brown.

"I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear."
- Margaret Thatcher in 1973.

"That rainbow song's no good. Take it out." -
MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard
Of Oz.

"You'd better learn secretarial skills or else
get married." - Modelling agency, rejecting
Marilyn Monroe in 1944.

"Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax."
"The aeroplane is scientifically impossible."
- Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-9.

"You ought to go back to driving a truck." -
Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954.

"Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a
nickel." - MGM executive, advising against
investing in Gone With The Wind.

"Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can
dance a little." - A film company's verdict
on Fred Astaire's 1928 screen test.

"Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will
never work." - Professor of Aeronautical
Engineering at Cambridge, shown Frank
Whittle's plan for the jet engine.

"There will be one million cases of AIDS in
Britain by 1991." - World Health Organization
in a 1989 report. It over-estimated by 992,301
cases.

"The Beatles? They're on the wane." - The
Duke of Edinburgh in Canada, 1965. They
went on to produce a string of No 1s.

"The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak
as an expert in explosives." - U.S. Admiral
William Leahy in 1945.

"All saved from Titanic after collision." - New
York Evening Sun, April 15 1912.

"Brain work will cause women to go bald." -
Berlin professor, 1914.

"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine."
- Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936.

"Everything that can be invented has been
invented." - director of the US Patent Office,
1899.

"And for the tourist who really wants to get
away from it all, safaris in Vietnam." -
Newsweek magazine, predicting popular
holidays for the late 1960s.