“Those manuals are like War and Peace now – an inch thick”
David Champion, the director of testing for Consumer Reports, an American magazine, says that manuals for in-car gadgets have reached blockbuster proportions
“We put this bridge on a diet. Here’s a bridge that’s 65 years old. It got a little heavy around the midsection”
Michael Ascher, the president of MTA Bridges and Tunnels, an arm of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York, on plans to slim down the 65-year-old Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, which has started to sag
“Some said I was exploiting my baby, but the money will go towards a few extras to spoil him when he is born”
Julz Thomson, who has sold advertising space on her pregnant stomach, and will wear a T-shirt bearing the logo of the highest bidder until the baby’s birth
“The ultimate happiness is transcendence. It’s liberation. It’s Buddahood. It’s enlightenment, whatever your religion is – that’s it. That is happiness. The big H – absolute happiness, done”
Richard Gere, actor