"There's no way you can use water to collect waste in zero gravity. So, basically, our toilet on shuttle operations is a vacuum cleaner. The urinal looks like a Shop-Vac hose. It has different-shaped fronts on it for males and females to use. The urine is sucked down that hose and goes into a tank."

“Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory.”

Source : Foreword in The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1993)

“Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. Thats not true, I always eat properly.”

Source : "How Denise van Outen lost weight". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 28, 2008.

“I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.”

“Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.”

“Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.”

“It feels good to give your fans something to feel good about.”

“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”

“Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.”