Quotations of witty, wise, strange or otherwise stupid things people have said...
We conclude that vampires cannot exist, since their existence contradicts the existence of human beings… Apparently, whomever devised the vampire legend had failed his college algebra and philosophy courses.
– Costas J. Efthimiou and Sohang Gandhi. “Ghosts, Vampires and Zombies: Cinema Fiction vs Physics Reality“
Trained creatures often choose to stay in their cages even when released. I don’t call that a choice.
– Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. “Nothing To Hide — It’s not illiberal for liberal societies to disapprove of the veil,” Time, Europe Edition, October 8, 2006.
“If you don’t have the strength to control your emotions, you’re of no help to the people who are in such shock and pain. You only add to their burden.”
– Anna Politkovskaya. “Disquiet On The Chechen Front,” Time, Europe Edition, April 20, 2003. She died on October 7 in an apparent assassination.
“People sometimes pay with their lives for saying out loud what they think”
– Anna Politkovskaya. “In praise of … Anna Politkovskaya,” Guardian Unlimited, October 9, 2006. She died on October 7 in an apparent assassination.
“We ask for the co-operation of the public and ask your pardon for the inconvenience.”
– Thai military after the coup of 19 September 2006. “One night in Bangkok: Army claims coup in Thailand,”The Independent, 20 September 2006.
“I believe, at the end of the day, personally, my life is not about a banana. It’s not about what I wear. It’s not about the friends that I have. My career right now is about winning a tennis match. And right now, I’m sitting here as a U.S. Open champion, and the last thing I think people need to worry about is a banana.”
– Maria Sharapova. “Not just a pretty face,” SportsIllustrated.cnn.com, September 2006.
“Mate, I think the world is made up of a lot of people with different views and different chemistry. Thank goodness for that. It makes it the wonderful world we’ve got and if they have that opinion and want to voice that opinion, that is their God given right and I applaud them for that. However, I don’t agree with that. I believe that the time has come where if we don’t get animals into people’s hearts, they’re going to go extinct.”
– Steve Irwin told Larry King on Larry King Live.
“I love John Howard, and that’s the way I am. So everyone thinks I’m, like, this diehard Liberal supporter. I’m not! I’m not. I’m sitting on the fence, mate, I’m a conservationist. I can’t afford to be one way or the other. I just have to run straight up the middle, mate.”
– Steve Irwin told ABC as reported in Wikipedia.
“As best I can tell, ‘dwarf’ is an adjective and ‘planet’ is a noun … I think the IAU thinks they defined Pluto to not be a planet. But they in fact have defined Pluto to be a planet – a particular kind of planet.”
– Alan Stern. “New planet definition sparks furore“, NewScientist.com, 25 August 2006.
“In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.”
– Charles Simonyi. “Everyone’s a Programmer“, Technology Review, November 2003.
