"Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball?"

“When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.”

“But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.”

“We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!”

“I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.”

“My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.”

Source : "Joe Paterno Cried Uncontrollably After He Was Fired, And Other Details From His Controversial New Biography" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. August 15, 2012.

“When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'”

“It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, and Bush’s America. At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that.”

“The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.”