“I picked the wrong house.”
-KENNETH PARKERSON, a Florida man arrested for allegedly sneaking onto the patio of the home of fire fighter Ireneusz Fajkis with a video camera. Fajkis’ wife screamed for her husband when she noticed …
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Quotes: Doctors on Dangers of Homeopathy
“Homeopathy is witchcraft,”
— TOM DOLPHIN, member of the British Medical Association, on whether Britain’s National Health Service should foot the bill for alternative-medicine treatments. The NHS currently operates some …
Quotes: Germany Reacts to Google Privacy Breach
“According to the information available to us so far, Google has for years penetrated private networks, apparently illegally,”
— ILSE AIGNER, German consumer protection minister, in a statement condemning Google for monitoring …
Quotes: Twilight’s Robert Pattinson Talks TIME 100 on Oprah
“It just seems completely ridiculous. Three years ago, I wouldn’t be able to influence my dog to walk.”
– ROBERT PATTINSON, star of upcoming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, on his being named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential …
Quotes: Oklahoma Governor Vetoes Open-Carry Weapons Bill
“I’m a strong supporter of the right to bear arms and have earned an A rating from the NRA, but this measure does nothing to strengthen Second Amendment protections.”
– BRAD HENRY, Oklahoma governor, on his decision to nix a …
Quotes: BP CEO Tony Hayward on Gulf Oil Spill
“The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.”
— TONY HAYWARD, CEO of BP, on the scope of the company’s oil spill. (via …
Quotes: David Cameron on Becoming Prime Minister
“Now let’s get to work.”
— DAVID CAMERON, the new prime minister of Britain, arriving at 10 Downing Street for his first day on the job. (Via BBC)
Quotes: Stephen Hughes on Fixing the Dictionary
“An extensive check of online and offline dictionaries did not reveal a single dictionary that correctly referred to gravity being the operative force in a siphon,”
− STEPHEN HUGHES, a physicist at Australia’s University of …
Quotes: Pope Benedict XVI On Church’s Scandal
“The church needs to profoundly relearn penitence, accept purification, learn forgiveness but also justice.”
— POPE BENEDICT XVI, responding to reporter questions about the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal, aboard the papal …
Quotes: Gordon Brown on Stepping Down
“I therefore intend to ask the Labour Party to set in train the processes needed for its own leadership election.”
— GORDON BROWN, British Prime Minister, announcing he’ll step down as leader of the Labour Party in the wake of …