Quips & Quotes

“I have this theory that cycling is as close as a middle-class straight white guy can get to understanding Being Female. People have a reckless disregard for your safety, you have to treat everyone like they might hurt you, and if you do get hurt people will blame you for existing.” – Christchurch’s Emma Hart on Twitter

“A man broke a Guinness world record by walking barefoot on a 120-foot path of loose Legos. This beats the old record set by every dad getting up to use the bathroom at night.” – US comedian Jimmy Fallon

“We are continually faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.” – Margaret Mead

“I put my heart and my soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process.” – Vincent van Gogh

“Who the f--- do you think wrote the Book of Revelation? A bunch of stone-sober clerics?” – Hunter S Thompson

“When I was born, you weren’t expected to be around that long.” – Queen Elizabeth on her 70th wedding anniversary

“Officials at a South Carolina zoo say an orangutan briefly escaped but then returned to his pen. It caused chaos because ‘the orangutan escaped his enclosure’ is Secret Service code for when Trump shows up at a policy briefing.” – US talkshow host Seth Meyers

“Invisibility is a superpower.” – Banksy