Quotables

“I’m not dying!”

DOLLY PARTON responding in a video message Oct. 8 to rumors about her health after her sister asked for prayers for the country music icon.

“It is normal for a few air traffic controllers to call in sick on any given day.”

A statement issued Oct. 6 by the air traffic controllers’ union explaining the uptick in sick days as members are required to work without pay during the government shutdown.*

“You’re not making art.”

ZELDA WILLIAMS, daughter of late comic Robin Williams, pleading on Instagram for people to stop making AI renderings of her father who died in 2014.

“[He] was living his best life and was off the grid on a preplanned hiking trip.”

A statement from Sonoma Biotherapeutics about the whereabouts of its researcher Fred Ramsdell after the Nobel Prize committee could not reach him to tell him he won the prestigious award.*

“I’m sorry for stealing Claire. Please do not press charges!”

An anonymous apology note attached to a 50-pound fiberglass dinosaur returned to a Los Angeles gas station Oct. 6 after being stolen.**

*The New York Times; **NBCLA