[In Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, police said 7,500 homes were damaged or destroyed -- half of its 15,000 single- family residences.] It looks like a bomb hit here, ... Houses are just leveled. It looks like a battlefield. |
[Jim Carter of the South Coast Winery came up with the idea for a fundraiser and met with people from local wineries before the Labor Day weekend.] We just had one of the greatest tragedies in the nation, ... It's so enormous. |
[Labour MSP Gordon Jackson, QC, visited Watson in Saughton last week at the request of Clare, who wanted a] friendly face ... I was in with Mike for 20 minutes and my impression was that he is handling the situation very well. |
[Maryland] had a great game plan coming in and that plan was really just to hold the ball for as long as possible. Not having the ball and then not taking advantage of the times when we did have it really killed us in the end. |
Jesse Helms (1921-) |
[Omega Man and his creator have met with their share of controversy.] People criticize me a lot, ... They say, 'Why do you deal with guns, gang violence, racism in your comic books?' Well, kids nowadays have to deal with that. |
[Pemberton, however, says Childress and others who speak out against NASCAR don't have to worry about being punished.] I used to speak out against them, and now I'm (working) here, ... So I don't think that that's fair to say. |
[Responding to a Washington Post report on Saturday that Farrakhan had agreed to include] gay speakers ... very pleased that eight months of discussions with Minister Louis Farrakhan and March organizers have begun to pay off. |
[So late in the contest, backup Eric Kresser threw a quick screen to backup Travis McGriff for the landmark score.] They didn't seem too mad about it, ... They only had about 10,000 in the stadium with about five minutes left. |
[The band is also just starting to talk about its next record.] We're just going to get ourselves in a creative environment and write a bunch of songs, ... But there's a lot of touring to do still — we're enjoying ourselves. |
[The biggest difference from Friday's game] was that we got the puck out of the zone. The winger and center came back to help all night, and we always had people in front of the net to stop shots. It was just textbook defense. |
[The first few days on the set were] sort of my trial by fire, ... Once you've set the scene, and you know the way you want to shoot it, and how you want to play it, you've got to get into the scene and forget everything else. |
[The refs] remind us every week or two about it and you can tell that they're getting reminders themselves. I feel pretty good about it. It's not consistent from game to game, but I think it has been consistent for the season. |
[The scientific consensus on the strength of the sound recordings from that region was] very, very exciting, ... It gives you chill bumps to think about that vast bottomland hardwood being certainly home to more than one bird. |
[The system] was the poster child, in my view, of procurement abuse and problems, ... As we look forward to the America's Shield program, I think we need to take ISIS as our lessons-learned pilot program, and make corrections. |