鈥淭he two girls are identical. They are a clone of my son鈥檚 cat.鈥�
Lou Hawthorne, CEO of San Francisco-based firm Genetic Savings and Clone announcing his firm has cloned two cats, Tabouli and Baba Ganoush, in preparation for offering a pet cloning service (BBC online, 9 August)
鈥淧eople think Saudi-bashing is the answer to energy consumption, but we鈥檙e not over here selling you SUVs.鈥�
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Nail al-Jubeir, spokesman for the Saudi Embassy in Washington, reacting to John Kerry鈥檚 policy to wean the US off oil from Saudi Arabia (The New York Times, 6 August)
鈥淚t sounded like an express train and hit the boat like a missile in the dark鈥uddenly the whole world exploded.鈥�
Jonathan Gornall, Times columnist on board the Pink Lady, the vessel that was wrecked by a freak wave while coming close to breaking the record for crossing the Atlantic in a rowing boat (The Times, London, 9 August)
鈥淔or two years, I never held them separately.鈥�
Arlene Aguirre, mother of conjoined twins, Carl and Clarence, successfully separated during a 17-hour operation at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York (USA Today, 8 August)
鈥淪he鈥檚 quite articulate. She鈥檒l tell us how bad she鈥檚 feeling, how bad the pain is.鈥�
Volunteer Johnpaul Slater at the Gorilla Foundation, Woodside California, explaining how Koko, the 33-year-old gorilla famous for extensive sign language, indicated the severity of her toothache on a scale of 1 to 10 (Associated Press, 9 August)