[And I also thought about one of Yale's alumni, namely the urbane songwriter Cole Porter. The grandson of a] gentleman farmer, ... Bulldog! Bulldog! (Bow, Wow, Wow).

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

Ach, woman! He raked his fingers through his hair. "You want me as much as I want you."
"Assuming that's true -"
"It's true."
"- I can't. Not now."
"It's no' your time of the month. I know that."
"Ew." Valkyrie didn't have periods. "You're the only one here with a monthly cycle, werewolf."
- Lucia and Garreth MacRieve

[Porter, who had his surgery Aug. 10, successfully went through three consecutive practices this week. It was his first full week of work.] I'm somewhere in the 90 (percent) range, ... In time, I'll be 100 percent. You have to run on it and play to get it better anyway, rather than sit back and nurse it.

[Don Porter , the American head of the international softball federation, said he did not expect his sport to get the ax.] Absolutely not, ... I thought, based on my discussions here with IOC members over the last five days, that we had good support. I'm very surprised. We've been good for the Olympic program, but sometimes the game of politics enters into it.

I thought we played well. We just couldn't get that second one past Martin. There are some things we can do better (Saturday) and we will.