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“But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.”
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“Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.”
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“Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?”
Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
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“Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?”
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“If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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“But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.”
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“There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.”
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“Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.”
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“The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.”
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“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”
Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013. 
