I went to New York with one thing in mind and that was to try and help win a Stanley Cup. I was lucky to be a part of a team that was willing to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the team.


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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel...
MARK FRAUENFELDER
Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk...
MARK BILLINGHAM
China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main ...
MARK CARWARDINE
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
MARK TWAIN
Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN
Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out...
MARK FROST
I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
MARK TWAIN
The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ...
MARK EDWARDS
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
MARK RUTHERFORD
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
MARK TWAIN
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
MARK TWAIN
Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material...
MARK TWAIN
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
MARK TWAIN
There is a great deal of human nature in people.
MARK TWAIN
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot...
MARK TWAIN
Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN
Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat...
MARK TWAIN
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th...
MARK TWAIN
Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income...
MARK ZANDI
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY
There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.
MARK ZUPAN
Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE
Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
MARK TWAIN
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t...
MARK TWAIN
I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ...
MARK UDALL
I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th...
MARK HADDON
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
MARK TWAIN
Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN