鈥淭hey ate what they could and sold the rest鈥� We have a lot of lions, tigers, bears 鈥� if it could bite them they left it.鈥�
Lawrence Anthony, interim head of Baghdad Zoo on what is left of the zoo following looting (Reuters, 30 May)
鈥淭his is akin to blasting at a Sydney demolition site and saying 鈥榃hoops, we got the Opera House as well鈥�.鈥�
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Bob Brown, a senator for Tasmania鈥檚 Green party on the destruction of the world鈥檚 tallest tree by a fire started to make wood chips (The Observer, 1 June)
鈥淚 drank two bottles of wine, went in there, jumped over the railing, whipped my clothes off and dived in.鈥�
Comedian Guy Venables, who jumped naked into a tank full of sharks at Brighton鈥檚 Sea Life Centre to win a 拢1 bet (The Guardian, 3 June)
鈥淏eagle 2 is trying to hit a home run. I don鈥檛 think they鈥檒l hit it, but I wish them luck.鈥�
Harold McSween, member of a NASA team sending rovers to Mars on the prospects for the British Beagle lander finding life on Mars (CNN.com, 2 June)
鈥淭he whole point of going to a coffee shop is to smoke.鈥�
Arjan Roskamof the Netherlands Union for Cannabis Retailers on Dutch proposals to ban smokers from public places (BBC news online, 29 May)
鈥淗e called our very valuable European customers Luddites, a term for backward thinking folks鈥� This is not how we should treat our best customers!鈥�
US farmer Harvey Joe Sanner on comments by US trade representative Robert Zoellick (Soybean Producers of America press release, 29 May)