I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks

There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.

If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.