Quotes by Mike Brown

“Its a truly scary feeling. Youre wondering about your future, your livelihood. Your world changes pretty dramatically.”

“The Bears could play in this game every year. We have the most hall-of-famers.”

“They tell me I have a good shot at starting but that is just talk. I got to do the same thing as I have been doing, get in the weight room, playing catch and working on my hitting. They are a young team and they are looking for guys to step up. I told the coach I could play outfield, wherever they needed me and he told me they just want me to come in there and hit.”

“Your loyalty is more naturally to your teammates and coaches. If youve been around a few years like me, you develop a bond with the city and the whole concept of a franchise. But thats hard for a lot of guys to do these days.”

“Youth football is a worthwhile activity for all who participate in it. Im pleased to see how it is coming together.”

“Were still in Florida doing long-term recovery efforts”

“This is a very active disaster season for FEMA. The men and women of this organization are ready to respond anywhere and everywhere.”

“The flooding is everywhere and Im not talking about just New Orleans. Im talking about all through Mississippi and Alabama. So this storm is really having a catastrophic effect throughout the South right now.”

“Were a small department. It looks good when these guys walk in.”

“It doesnt feeling any better than hearing President Bush saying, Brownie, youre doing a great job,”

Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them.

Lilah did little more than sleep and eat and cry, which to me was the most fascinating thing in the entire universe. Why did she cry? When did she sleep? What made her eat a lot one day and little the next? Was she changing with time? I did what any obsessed person would do in such a case: I recorded data, plotted it, calculated statistical correlations. First I just wrote on scraps of paper and made charts on graph paper, but I very quickly became more sophisticated. I wrote computer software to make a beautifully colored plot showing times when Diane fed Lilah, in black; when I fed her, in blue (expressed mothers milk, if you must know); Lilahs fussy times, in angry red; her happy times, in green. I calculated patterns in sleeping times, eating times, length of sleep, amounts eaten.Then, I did what any obsessed person would do these days; I put it all on the Web.

After cat, Lilah next learned flower. Flowers (scrunch up nose as if sniffing) were everywhere, first only outside on plants, but soon she generalized to flowers on her clothes or her shoes, or in pictures in books and magazines. I wanted to hook up wires and do experiments and comparisons and studies to understand it all.You want to do what? Diane would say.But really, who wouldnt?

There is nothing particularly special about that location of the centre of mass. If you were to find yourself at the precise spot that is the centre of mass of the earth-moon system, the only thing unusual that you would notice is that there would be one thousand miles of rock on top of your head.Pluto is only about twice the size of Charon, so if you put Pluto and Charon on the cosmic seesaw you would find that the balance point is a little bit outside Pluto, rather than inside it. Again, there is nothing particularly special going on there. If you were to find yourself at that precise spot, you would only notice that you were very, very cold and could no longer breathe.