鈥淪tart making children soon. Don鈥檛 let me down.鈥�
Chinese consul Peng Ren speaking at a 鈥渕arriage ceremony鈥� in northern Thailand for two giant pandas on loan from China (Japan Times, 11 November)
鈥淚 can鈥檛 believe that we鈥檙e actually broadcasting into space! This is sensational. I love it.鈥�
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Former Beatle Paul McCartney after playing Good Day Sunshine and his new song English Tea direct to the International Space Station from a show in Anaheim, California (New Musical Express, 14 November)
鈥淔or me, it would be a thrill to have a deer get up close enough and to throw my dart and hit the deer, bag it like my ancestors did.鈥�
Veteran hunter Jack Rowe on the possible legalisation in Pennsylvania of Stone Age weapons known as atlatls, which propel 2-metre darts at up to 130 kilometres per hour (Associated Press, 14 November)
鈥淚f we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.鈥�
British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough, in an interview about Life In The Undergrowth, his latest book and TV series on insects (The Daily Telegraph, London, 12 November)
鈥淚f this downward trend is not reversed, medical students will soon not have the opportunity to learn their anatomy from the best 鈥榯extbook鈥�, the real human body.鈥�
A spokeswoman from the UK Department of Health bemoaning a decline in donations of bodies for medical training (BBC online, 14 November)