"She was still out in the water lying on her back in a floating position because she told us later that she couldn’t swim. She still had her mobile phone in her hand ..."

Senior Constable Dean Kelly of the state water police, of a tourist in Australia who, distracted by Facebook, fell off a pier.

'The indispensable companion to life in the moment.'

The scene at the Twitter specialist station, courtesy NYSECam

• A description of Twitter by CEO Dick Costollo as the company's went public on the New York Stock Exchange.

'Only in the NFL can a Harvard degree have negative consequences.'

• Former NFL player Isaiah Kacyvenski, on the alleged harassment that led former Stanford University offensive lineman Jonathan Martin (71) to leave the Miami Dolphins.

'I think not.'

• Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina on the prospects embattled BlackBerry can turn things around, on the day the company announced it had abandoned an attempt to sell itself — presumably for lack of interest.

"No way. You wouldn’t be here."

• Fighter ace Brig. Gen. Robinson Risner, to a MIG-15 counterpart who had flown in Korea at the same time, asked if he thought the two had ever met in combat.

'nope, i don't want one of those.'

• Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, of the new iPads.
  

"We are going to get engaged. The need is now more than ever to elect people who understand the free market and not silliness."

• Scott Reed, a senior strategist for the Chamber of Commerce, on the Tea Party.

"Did you not see the invite? It said white-tie, not ‘Flamboyant Zorro.’"

• Stephen Colbert, to the traditionally-dressed Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, at the annual (white-tie) Al Smith Dinner for charity.

"For the past 2 and 1/2 weeks, the Holy Spirit has been waking me up in the middle of the night and preparing me (through my reluctance and doubt) to deliver a message in the House Chamber."

• US House of Representative's stenographer Dianne Foster Reidy, who was physically removed from the chamber while delivering what seemed like an incoherent rant during a vote to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling, reading a written statement on Fox news.

"It looks like former congressman Anthony Weiner may have sexted himself out of the race for New York City mayor."

• Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, after the organization's latest survey found the Democratic hopeful (AKA "Carlos Danger") had dropped to fourth in a field of four.