Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.

Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

I can give you a better 'and then'," Ranger said.

Success comes in cans. Failures comes in can'ts.