[Eclecticism is the byword for this year's festival.] The Merchant City has some great venues for comedy, ... We want read more

[Eclecticism is the byword for this year's festival.] The Merchant City has some great venues for comedy, ... We want to show a bit of everything that happens in Glasgow's comedy community.

This is politics, raw and urgent. What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt read more

This is politics, raw and urgent. What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among the Tory modernizers' camp and to keep the Conservatives firmly on the right of British politics.

It's always great to get a little bit of redemption, not against the UNH players, but for myself. It's a read more

It's always great to get a little bit of redemption, not against the UNH players, but for myself. It's a really satisfying feeling.

Nobody can get away from it. I can find myself going out and playing it until 10 at night.

Nobody can get away from it. I can find myself going out and playing it until 10 at night.

I like letting people in on the process. When we did a speed-dating scene, we hired all these hilarious women read more

I like letting people in on the process. When we did a speed-dating scene, we hired all these hilarious women ... and let them go off on Steve. ... If something's funny, I hate for it to just sit in a basement.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic read more

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

We don't have a measure of abundance or population density of a single snake in Africa. We need that information read more

We don't have a measure of abundance or population density of a single snake in Africa. We need that information to make well-founded decisions about how threatened species are and we don't have it... it's a big conservation need.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on read more

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. - Chance.

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the read more

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.