In my experience, if you go to a hospital for any reason whatsoever, including to read the gas meter, they give you a tetanus shot.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

A bad peace is worse than war.

Periapólí can only become the greatest city in the world if every boy and girl is born into a life where anything is possible.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I'd be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge?

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.