Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

It's like the panda, they say that's dying out. But what do they do? When you see them they're just sitting in the jungle eating.

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot.

I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

Avocados, it's a food that ain't worth injuring yourself for. If it's a hassle to get into, leave it to the experts.

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

The most painful emotions are better than none at all. Ironically, we make you human.

I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.