Quotes
"Market forces have been the deciding factor - with wheat prices doubling in the past year, and the street price of heroin falling, it is now more cost effective to grow wheat." / Telegraph.

"Siau said teachers have been occasionally told that there is no need to have a backup system for grades 'because the system would never go down. Well ...'" / Evansville Courier & Press.

"And he is laying the groundwork for romance novels generated by new algorithms. 'I’ve already set it up,' he said. 'There are only so many body parts.'" / New York Times.

"I don't see how knitting could make a male want to have sexual relations with another male. I think there are other factors involved." / Amélie Unbound.

"'You’ve been broken into,' she said [the police] told her. 'We’re guarding the Swedish fish.'" / Cincinnati Enquirer.

Three from the same Metafilter thread:

"For years I believed that in England there were 8 days in the week. I remembering puzzling over what that eighth day was called and what happened when they went somewhere else. Never ask my Dad to explain a Beatles song." / malphigian.

"Luke Skywalker would never hit his friends, tease the dog, or play with his poop." / cjets.

"Those aren't lies, they're magical mini myths handed down from one generation to the next." / not_on_display.