Raptors are smart. Very smart. Believe me, all the problems we have so far are nothing compared with what we'd have if the raptors ever got out of their holding pen.

New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries

New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape.

Truth is only what we like to hear....

You have to understand something about girls, Mick. You see 'em in the winner's circle, but you'll never find horseshit on their shoes.

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.