“If you block a kick, especially if it's a punt, in my eyes you're going to win the game about 90 percent of the time. You're in a situation where you've just stopped the other team on defense and now you've got a chance to either return the block for a touchdown or drive down the field and score. It can make for a 14-point swing. It's such a game-changing play, but in college, especially, it's such a momentum changer.”

“I've found the last couple of years exciting and rewarding but also the most difficult of my life. If you are the product and your life is spent in self-examination, you devour praise and criticism 24 hours a day and you forget the thing that drives the world is outside of you. I don't know any other business so shrouded in Schadenfreude. The knives are always out, it just depends which way they're pointed.”

“We are excited about the synergies and strategic benefits of this acquisition, including the improved reach into Asia and the broadening of our offering with less-complex, higher-turn products in the mixed-signal and structured digital business. This acquisition expands our market and scale in both mixed-signal and structured digital products. In addition, the peripheral imaging sensor products included in the acquisition enhance our core competencies while driving profitable growth.”

“[Tech's defense was up to the challenge. It didn't allow any points on Maryland's drives after Vick's three third-quarter interceptions, and gave up just 45 total yards. Tech has given up three points off of five turnovers this season.] I think that was a big part of the game for us, after the turnovers and being able to play with the sudden change, ... It just gave a different look for the defense.”

“It was a white A-Team van, and because it had no windows, it was hot as crap. It had a big flower spray-painted on the side. The brakes went out on it when we were driving down this alley, and I go to our guitar tech — there was a fence and there was this other van — so I go, 'Fence or van? 'Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and he said, 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and it bounced into the van.”

“Because of the low-budget nature of this production, we couldn't all share an office, so the PA would bring drives from Mark over to my system across town. As I'd finish a cut, I'd e-mail my cut list to Mark, and he'd assemble that from the media that he had on his system. Mark would then put my cuts on a DVD and ship it to the director and producer on location.”

“It's a very interesting and growing trend in part because the European countries are revisiting what it means to be a member of a political community as they have been integrated into the European Union and are thinking about greater mobility of their citizens in Europe and around the world. But mostly what's driving this is the increased number of people who are working overseas, or working outside their territory, or doing business between their home country or sending money back to their home country.”

“In fairness, she's not the only one. She was just one of the more high profile. Sometimes people think it's OK if they take their keys away, but it's not all about drunk driving. Research shows the brain is not fully developed until age 21 and many things can damage the brain until then. All of those things that you absolutely would not wish on your child come from underage alcohol use.”

You cannot edit your life, and even if I was today offered the chance to never meet her, and so not leave the city I loved, I would decline, for life is a verb, life swerves and lurches no matter how cautious and careful your driving, and I would not be who I am, surrounded by those I love most in this world, had I not left Chicago when I did.

“I'm ecstatic for the kids. I had my seniors and my two assistants here when I got the call, and to see them get excited was great. I'll be honest, I was worried if I couldn't go because I'm kind of like their second mom. I drive the bus to Baker and get them up and set up breakfast, so I was concerned I was not going to be able to be at the motel at all.”