Quotables

“It’s getting a lot of Swifties who just want a tangential piece of the wedding.”

JUSTIN GIGNAC on his success selling trash collected outside Madison Square Garden after it hosted the wedding of singer Taylor Swift and NFL star Travis Kelce on July 3.*

“Your loss.”

Historian TOM HOLLAND responding on social media July 8 to an insult by tech mogul Elon Musk over Holland’s positive review of the Christopher Nolan adaptation of Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey.

“I was just a curious, concerned citizen. … I guess I was there at the wrong place, wrong time.”

Former Olympic canoeist DAVID HEARN who caught a federal felony charge in July after, he says, he reached in and touched a floating object in the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C.**

“My stomach is eating itself.”

BRYAN JOHNSON, a 48-year-old tech entrepreneur who has gone to extraordinary lengths with experimental and unproven treatments to lengthen his own lifespan, revealing on Instagram in July that he has developed an autoimmune disorder.

“[It] increased their overall training volume without increasing their perceived exertion.”

Study author MOHAMED NASHRUDIN BIN NAHARUDIN on what happens when men sniff chocolate during weight lifting workouts, according to his study published July 8.

*AFP; **The New York Times