FastSaying

Like most schools, we tried to get it all done as much as possible last week. We had the fog day and had to test Monday.


Linda Stephenson

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER We're going to be working seven days a week. We want to get on with things and get as much done in a...
CAROLINE CROSS This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS We like to test the waters. We wanted to keep it as wide open as possible. We have many weapons.
JAKE GOEBBERT We had a great week last week and we struggled a little bit this week. Obviously I don't think we we...
B.J. SANDER We're hoping to get a few more schools for this and then as many as we can get for the Monday night ...
CATHY SMITH We had to start working on what we needed to get done for this year last year. We started working th...
BOBBY DEBERRY What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER We realized that we really had to make the Classic one of the major focuses of our fundraising. We r...
BETH MCCALL We tried to keep as much pressure on them as possible and rattle their guards.
BENNIE EDWARDS We've been talking about it and putting up little things every day of the week. That's helped us to ...
JUSTIN PARNELL I tried to get as many administrators and principals as possible and sent out 20 to 25 e-mails. The ...
KARI LYLES We would all like to see Cameron playing at the highest level possible, but he didn't get much game ...
MATHEW ARMSTRONG We had generated so much energy and so many new ideas playing live and we wanted to capture that as ...
STEVE BAYS I think last time we had it we had maybe 15 schools at the most. It was not at all the full-blown ev...
JACK DALEY A lot of guys were really emotional this week (about) A.O., and we tried to pay tribute to him as mu...
BRAD EKWEREKWU We practiced hard last week. We got after it. We had to get the intensity back and not accept losing...
DOUG MCCRARY We're opening up the doors of the schools to the community and we'd like to see as much community in...
CHARLES KRAMER We've been as transparent as possible. We felt like we had to be as open as possible. This is about ...
BERT KELLY Overall, it was night and day from last week. As bad as we were last week, we were good this week. I...
DOUG PRESTON It's devastating. We wanted that bronze medal every bit as much as we wanted to win the semi-final. ...
DAVID MURDOCH This is exactly what we had feared. We need to continue to do as much as possible to help mitigate t...
STEPHANIE BUNKER After I saw the leaders, I knew we could make a run. Going into the ninth frame of the last game, we...
ART BROWN Who cares what are you eating??
Who cares where are you?
Who cares what are you posting??<...
DEYTH BANGER We are doing all we can to ensure the public is aware of the test ahead of time so we do not create ...
DAVID LIEBERSBACH Most teams do not get a back like that on scout team. We had to chase him, we had to contain him eve...
DONTEZ SANDERS We raced for the win today, ... Tony raced me clean and I felt like we raced him clean. He had a fas...
RYAN NEWMAN They were like flies to honey last year; they were just drooling over that rod. We could have had Pa...
JIM SMITHAM Three-and-a-half hours Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. We really picked it up in practice. I said it las...
CRAIG BUZEA We want to move in and get as much done as fast as we can.
BOB DONOHUE Assuming you have a reasonable phone, the sound quality is better than a landline. We tested the ser...
ALEX FREUDMANN We want to get it done as quickly and inexpensively with as much creativity and flexibility as we ca...
ANDREW JOHNSON We saw some areas we could score in and we tried to get the ball there as much as we could.
LARRY REYNOLDS We finished everything up, and hopefully, we are taking enough of an arsenal over there to get it do...
BILL GRAY We had some lulls last week. We clinched it with a tie but we definitely could have done better. Men...
JAY HEAPS They had so much speed but we found ways to get it done.
BOB BAUMAN It was scattered. They weren't playing well and then all of a sudden we fell apart. We were kind of ...
TOM SAWYER Certain actresses really don't like to wear bras. And we try to accommodate them as much as humanly ...
MARC CHERRY We're all in the same boat. It comes down to the day. You test it out in warm-up. You have to adapt ...
CHAD HEDRICK We played much better than we did last week. Maybe it was the long weekend we had that gave us some ...
TERRI HUNT We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the ne...
KEENEN IVORY WAYANS Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.
DMX I just got really into it and tried to learn as much as possible. I am my harshest critic and I alwa...
KRISTIN FISHER We went back to our basics, and it really paid off for us. We executed our game plan so well that we...
JASON SIMPSON This is a normal part of our planning cycle, ... You should have as much confidence in us this week ...
HANK MCKINNELL Last year we had a recruit in here, and all we had to show them was the blueprints. Now the courts h...
JIM DAUGHERTY We had to get some things off our chest. We had to come together as a team. We had to get motivated ...
CHRIS HUNTER We tried to do this with as much dignity as possible, ... This was someone's loved one. They deserve...
DAVID BONE Reasonably speaking, we can see the cross as entirely possible. But in considering Easter, we see an...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We had very little time -- Bob and Felt in the garage together had very little time to have meetings...
CARL BERNSTEIN We tried to keep our rotation as normal as possible. I didn't want to move players all around.
DANNY NEE We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.
SHELLEY DUVALL We lost a major buyer (with the recent death of Bob Lewis); we had a smaller catalogue; and there wa...
JERRY MCMAHON Tonight we kind of experimented a bit. We put a totally different setup on the car. It just didn't g...
MIKE BARNES We got together (as a defense) and met and let it be known that the way we played last week was unac...
ANTHONY MONTGOMERY We had some voluntary workouts because of the shortened school day and some guys went out too hard a...
CLINT CHAMBERLIN As compared to two years ago, we're ahead, ... We've had some things we've had to work through. We h...
JAMES BELL They won't come Monday. We're not really sure about the timeline at this point. We just want to get ...
GINGER EAST We are trying to keep kids from having to go to three elementary schools in three years. There will ...
RON BRADSHAW Most of the boys are walking around in a daze in there. We thought we had done enough to win but the...
ALEX RAE I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a ...
CATHERINE OPIE We want to get someone in here to advise us how to retain as much of the historic element as possibl...
GREG TURNER We want to get someone in here to advise us how to retain as much of the historic element as possibl...
GREG TURNER We knew we couldn't have a late letdown like we had at Miami. The whole team knew we had to get it d...
CEDRICK MIDDLETON It's a real tough loss. This one hurts as much as any of them do, because it was a game where we had...
DENNY FEDIGAN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY We were getting used to it. We practiced it all week and we had seen it before, so we pretty much kn...
CASSIE PROPER After much deliberation, we settled on this distribution method, thinking it would be the most equit...
JEFF OBRECHT We just tried to work on our passing and movement of the ball. We also tried to work throughout the ...
KATHERINE MACMURRAY I've been getting phone calls and e-mails about them all day. We didn't know how much interest we wo...
BARBARA KAISER They were pretty tough. They had so many big girls. It was hard for us to prepare. We just came here...
LESLIE CONETTA We shot this well last year as a regular occurrence. We haven't had it this year and it hasn't been ...
BOBBY RENZI We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to...
RICHARD BEN-VENISTE We tried something different on Monday and Thursday. We used four cages and the machines had four di...
JOEY KALMUS I tried to be aggressive because last game I threw away the ball like 100 times. This time I knew I ...
CHRIS DYER It was a really tough 12 months for Greg. He had to cope with a lot and while we tried to lighten th...
CRAIG BELLAMY Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to k...
TATYANA ALI We felt confident all week. We knew we could win if we played our game and stayed out of foul troubl...
CASSIE MOORE I had sort of a stinger, but it didn't affect my second-half throws. It was tough because we didn't ...
JOSH BETTS I just want to win every game that we play and keep improving. It want to get as many wins as possib...
AMANDA MELCHOR When it was all said and done, we fought through it. We had it at the 2, and didn't get it done.
LAWAL MCCRAY Time management is critical to productivity because most people try to cram as much as possible in a...
DEB HOWARD We had a great week of practice and the kids came out and really played hard. It was nice to get the...
BRENT WARD Our kids have had some of the same teachers, same schools as we have had.
HEIDI ADAMSKI That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN They had some good receivers last week and I think we pretty much held them in check.
CHRIS HAWKINS I have to give the credit to the good citizens of Moultrie. We put out a call last week saying that ...
FRANK LANG We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know ea...
V.C. ANDREWS They took our heart out last week. We had to come back today, get our heart back.
BRUCE DURHAM We rested a few kids and bumped some others up tonight. We tried to get as many seniors in the lineu...
GREG HAGA We have to get student testing done by the end of the week and then testing companies pick tests up ...
BOB HARRY It will be a tough game and we will need all our players if we are to win. As long as we have all ou...
CASSMAN WILLIAMS In our last two games we had double-digit leads and lost because we quit playing defense. That was p...
DAVID HENLEY This practice largely had been corrected by 1997. As we have said in the past, on all regulatory mat...
CHRIS WINANS We pretty much tried to do the same thing we did (Monday) night. They're (Alton) just better athlete...
DEVON FRERICKS It's a challenge. We can't get to projects as often as we'd like. In the U.S., you go to projects ev...
LARRY MCCALLISTER We had checked with the ESD (Educational Service District) last week, and they told us about 50 perc...
BOB KUEHL We were going up against Big 10 schools and we like competing. I think we finished in between Ohio S...
BRIAN GORBY I told them it was the seniors' last game and we didn't want to lose. We needed to put in more effor...
JULIA FAGAN This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export t...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN

More Linda Stephenson

We give the Terra Nova test so ISTEP is not the first big test they take. Terra Nova tests similar s...
LINDA STEPHENSON We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.
PAMELA STEPHENSON There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own...
PAMELA STEPHENSON There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious abou...
PAMELA STEPHENSON There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
PAMELA STEPHENSON The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without...
PAMELA STEPHENSON Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
PAMELA STEPHENSON Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
PAMELA STEPHENSON It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, a...
PAMELA STEPHENSON I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer togeth...
PAMELA STEPHENSON I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make...
PAMELA STEPHENSON I don't like the term mid-life crisis.
PAMELA STEPHENSON There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
PAMELA STEPHENSON There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we bo...
PAMELA STEPHENSON So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
PAMELA STEPHENSON Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
PAMELA STEPHENSON Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one o...
PAMELA STEPHENSON Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.
PAMELA STEPHENSON When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But ...
PAMELA STEPHENSON The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical th...
PAMELA STEPHENSON After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with the...
PAMELA STEPHENSON I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings an...
PAMELA STEPHENSON Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
PAMELA STEPHENSON See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can...
NEAL STEPHENSON Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he c...
NEAL STEPHENSON Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to ...
NEAL STEPHENSON From long experience in places like Afghanisatan and Chechnya, Sokolov recognised, in the black jiha...
NEAL STEPHENSON Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.
NEAL STEPHENSON Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events,...
NEAL STEPHENSON She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what s...
NEAL STEPHENSON This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.
WILLIAM STEPHENSON I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can b...
GEORGE STEPHENSON They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them...
NEAL STEPHENSON The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and...
NEAL STEPHENSON I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the...
PAMELA STEPHENSON Gold is the corpse of value...
NEAL STEPHENSON The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has...
NEAL STEPHENSON For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would take...
NEAL STEPHENSON [So, to lose the weight, she avoided faddy diets and devised a balanced eating plan.] I was careful ...
DEBRA STEPHENSON We work closely with the customer. The MoD sends us 'subject matter experts' who have just returned ...
COLIN STEPHENSON It was like havingan 8 month hangover!
DEBRA STEPHENSON One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's social...
NEAL STEPHENSON The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well...
NEAL STEPHENSON The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before...
GEORGE STEPHENSON Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.
NEAL STEPHENSON Integrating the show with the commercial air traffic has been a really tricky exercise.
COLIN STEPHENSON The idea is that it's not just the military that's going to be delivering the effect anymore. It's b...
BARBARA STEPHENSON It's inadvertent almost always but it really does take time.
BARBARA STEPHENSON History has shown us that when we wait until we get on the ground to come up with a strategy in real...
BARBARA STEPHENSON They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, cert...
NEAL STEPHENSON It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.
NEAL STEPHENSON We set a miserable tone from the start.
GENE STEPHENSON We'll tell each other that we love each other and I'm always going to be there for him.
AMANDA STEPHENSON The timing is really important.
AMANDA STEPHENSON Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently a...
NEAL STEPHENSON Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything ...
NEAL STEPHENSON Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepi...
NEAL STEPHENSON The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness
NEAL STEPHENSON Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.
NEAL STEPHENSON All these beefy Caucasians with guns. Get enough of them together,looking for the America they alway...
NEAL STEPHENSON The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right n...
NEAL STEPHENSON Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relati...
NEAL STEPHENSON All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or somet...
NEAL STEPHENSON When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technol...
NEAL STEPHENSON The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in ano...
NEAL STEPHENSON Shit, if I took time out to have an opinion about everything, I wouldn't get any work done.
NEAL STEPHENSON He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading sta...
NEAL STEPHENSON It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,” Vic says, looking through his magic sight. “Five g...
NEAL STEPHENSON ..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this pla...
NEAL STEPHENSON When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.
NEAL STEPHENSON We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your...
NEAL STEPHENSON This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”

Juanita shrugs. “What'...
NEAL STEPHENSON Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.
NEAL STEPHENSON Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big ol...
NEAL STEPHENSON Did you win your sword fight?"
"Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the g...
NEAL STEPHENSON This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Beca...
NEAL STEPHENSON I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.
NEAL STEPHENSON It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies w...
NEAL STEPHENSON I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.
NEAL STEPHENSON To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.
NEAL STEPHENSON When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
NEAL STEPHENSON In an apt demonstration of the principle of relativity, as propounded by Galileo, the bawdy platter ...
NEAL STEPHENSON We kind of threw something together with fins and some brightly colored stuff and a gas mask, which ...
BILL STEPHENSON We knew coming into this year that the bar was raised, and I think we all knew what we wanted to do....
BRANDON STEPHENSON They slid to Boyce a lot, and he's one of our most potent dodgers.
ED STEPHENSON The plan seems very comprehensive, and I was very impressed with it. (The plan) is headed in the rig...
BOB STEPHENSON I cannot justify not being at 100 percent of the market rate, and we should do everything we can to ...
BOB STEPHENSON I don't know if beating them in the fourth overtime like that was necessarily a good thing for us. I...
BRANDON STEPHENSON I like having the pressure on me. My teammates played a great game tonight, and I just did my job.
BRANDON STEPHENSON People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purpose...
NEAL STEPHENSON James was delighted with them, too. I've always liked having bigger boobs. At first I was a bit sad ...
DEBRA STEPHENSON Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass,...
NEAL STEPHENSON Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn ...
NEAL STEPHENSON And yet viewing several depictions of even an imaginary city, is enlightening in a way," Leibniz sai...
NEAL STEPHENSON Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face?
NEAL STEPHENSON The large pieces of furniture and the decorator items are the first to go.
TODD STEPHENSON the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was tru...
NEAL STEPHENSON Not like it used to be. It didn't seem like we were excited -- this whole ballpark just seemed quiet...
GENE STEPHENSON This is the biggest fund-raiser of the year for the elementary.
LORI STEPHENSON We squandered some opportunities, but some of that may have been their pitching.
GENE STEPHENSON Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same e...
NEAL STEPHENSON It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
NEAL STEPHENSON We were building a picket fence and we decided to put a gate in.
NELSON STEPHENSON I am happy with the personnel, ... We've got the potential to be much, much better than we showed th...
GENE STEPHENSON He's rich," Jack muttered to Eliza, "or connected with rich persons."
"Yes—the clothes, the c...
NEAL STEPHENSON Ever think of introducing yourself?" Y.T. says.
"Nah," he says, "people always forget names. Yo...
NEAL STEPHENSON Everybody is different, so it's important to notice what affects you, which is why I kept a food dia...
DEBRA STEPHENSON Acting is my priority.
DEBRA STEPHENSON I love singing and I'd be thrilled if my album did well.
DEBRA STEPHENSON It was like having
an 8 month hangover!
DEBRA STEPHENSON She loves Danny but she can't forgive him.
DEBRA STEPHENSON Twenty years may seem like a long time, but for the heinousness of the crime, it's not that long. If...
EDWARD STEPHENSON We certainly don't want him out but there's not a thing we can do.
EDWARD STEPHENSON I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.
GEORGE STEPHENSON The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.
GEORGE STEPHENSON Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or el...
NEAL STEPHENSON Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor....
NEAL STEPHENSON He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy.

They gave him an in...
NEAL STEPHENSON Nell," the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding,...
NEAL STEPHENSON Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the b...
NEAL STEPHENSON It was designed as a multi-purpose building so that you can do a variety of events.
CHRISTOPHER STEPHENSON Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over o...
NEAL STEPHENSON Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subcultur...
NEAL STEPHENSON Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confus...
NEAL STEPHENSON Therapies administered included but were not limited to: turning things off, then on again; picking ...
NEAL STEPHENSON El desarrollo de software comparte con el deporte profesional la característica de lograr que los t...
NEAL STEPHENSON Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men ...
NEAL STEPHENSON The bluegill population is very good. We haven't collected any 'trophy' bluegill, but there are many...
DAN STEPHENSON That means we had 14 bass over 18 inches every hour.
DAN STEPHENSON We still don't know why. We assume it has something to do with heat fluctuations.
DAN STEPHENSON In the spring of 2005 during a night shocking survey, we collected 119 bass per hour averaging over ...
DAN STEPHENSON One was doing so well, so why not put in two?
DAN STEPHENSON We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
WILLIAM STEPHENSON If we going to sell this to the public, we are going to have explain how these dollars are going to ...
DAVE STEPHENSON It will always come to the biggest entity who they assume has the biggest pockets.
DAVE STEPHENSON It's great for our community and for the men and women in our armed services.
DAVE STEPHENSON There is nothing more important than the children and the youth of our community and it's an ideal s...
DAVE STEPHENSON Something like this is long past due.
DAVE STEPHENSON We know the purpose and intent of this building, but reading the fine print, the building retains ba...
DAVE STEPHENSON I have no idea how he caught that ball. You can't say enough about Matt Brown and how he plays the o...
GENE STEPHENSON He has played very well defensively at third base. He's swinging the bat well. He can add some punch...
GENE STEPHENSON They can go get the ball with anybody and make all the plays.
GENE STEPHENSON We have a lot of depth. We can withstand some injuries and not be devastated.
GENE STEPHENSON I think he's got real promise, ... He's loose, and he's got a great swing.
GENE STEPHENSON He's truly a very remarkable, special athlete. He's an outstanding hitting prospect.
GENE STEPHENSON I've always felt WSU was the premier university in the Missouri Valley Conference. We have the best ...
GENE STEPHENSON Words can't describe a group that has been with us for four years and started the program.
ED STEPHENSON We could have held them a little tighter, which is what we've done in the past. We've got to score e...
ED STEPHENSON Each year the recruiting is getting better. Better kids are looking at us, and we're getting more of...
ED STEPHENSON We played a great first half defensively. We struggled to break them down one-on-one on the offensiv...
ED STEPHENSON We weren't sharp on either end. We didn't do anything on offense; we didn't do anything on defense. ...
ED STEPHENSON We were kind of spotty in our last game; fortunately a few of the guys stepped up. It's just another...
ED STEPHENSON That's the whole point of the increase in our schedule this year, to give us that second opportunity...
ED STEPHENSON We're gonna have to work real hard starting Monday. We really have to improve every week. I thought ...
ED STEPHENSON It's a great win for our program, it's a milestone for us. We play a very difficult schedule early, ...
ED STEPHENSON Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human bein...
NEAL STEPHENSON All the Chinese people Richard had ever met had been sophisticated urbanites, so he had been half ex...
NEAL STEPHENSON Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong ass...
NEAL STEPHENSON Work as hard with your internal customers as you do with outside suppliers to establish long-term re...
JANICE STEPHENSON Getting buy-in was a hard sell.
JANICE STEPHENSON Maybe we can even finish the story of white deer and its sad ending and read it to children. It woul...
JANICE STEPHENSON I'm devastated, just devastated. Never in my wildest dreams did I think anyone in the town of Garner...
JANICE STEPHENSON You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the ...
NEAL STEPHENSON This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will ...
NEAL STEPHENSON He accepts his role because he knows that's what we need to do to win. The main thing which separate...
JACK STEPHENSON My sophomores played really well tonight. They stepped it up and played very, very well. Of course, ...
JACK STEPHENSON I don't think there was any way it was going to change. There's too much history to this district fo...
JACK STEPHENSON (The Cougars) shot the ball very well and we didn't. They got us in foul trouble early. When Marcus ...
JACK STEPHENSON Explain this game to me. Last night we went 2-for-24 from the 3 and (Friday) we made 11 threes. We m...
JACK STEPHENSON I've got some wonderful kids. We'll respond and come back and play well. You're going to see a great...
JACK STEPHENSON These things do happen but it's just one game. We're still 14-2.
JACK STEPHENSON (The Rebels) were hurting as bad as we were. We had a 15-point lead and did some silly things.
JACK STEPHENSON They played awful hard. They're a lot better that I thought they would be. They shot the ball well.
JACK STEPHENSON I think our guys kind of got where we played to keep from losing than playing to win. But it showed ...
JACK STEPHENSON Magical?" "Non." "Magnificent?" "Don't be absurd." "Less bleak than anything else we have seen?" "No...
NEAL STEPHENSON This is a very exciting time for us. And the pickup on the [growth] curve is still ahead of us.
HUGO STEPHENSON This is a very exciting time for us. And the pickup on the (growth) curve is still ahead of us.
HUGO STEPHENSON Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worsh...
NEAL STEPHENSON He had come home late with take-out Thai and slammed into the sofa and tried to watch a movie, but k...
NEAL STEPHENSON Maybe we should go back and get their guns,” Marlon suggested. “That’s how it would work in a ...
NEAL STEPHENSON Not that any of the sysadmin’s knowledge and skills were applicable here.

The psycholog...
NEAL STEPHENSON Other bits of England might be cramped, crowded, and cluttered, but only because all the available s...
NEAL STEPHENSON She definitely heard the words for airplane and airport, which delighted some little-girl part of he...
NEAL STEPHENSON There was no way that these guys were going to let a bleeding, barefoot woman simply wander off alon...
NEAL STEPHENSON Most of the people around the entrance were, of course, bellhops and taxi drivers. Guests went in an...
NEAL STEPHENSON And so what moved him onward and down the office building’s stairway was not any sort of foolish h...
NEAL STEPHENSON It was then that she cut him off in midsentence and said that it was over. She said it with a certai...
NEAL STEPHENSON What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see ...
NEAL STEPHENSON There are always fuckups, and there is always a goat. Sometimes the goat is you.
NEAL STEPHENSON Richard's ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him...
NEAL STEPHENSON It gave them something to do and it took their mind off the way Yuxia was driving, which, had they p...
NEAL STEPHENSON Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not ...
NEAL STEPHENSON The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Ri...
NEAL STEPHENSON Apparently these three had left half of the surviving population of China seriously pissed off at th...
NEAL STEPHENSON Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov’s habit and his profession for a long time, but being c...
NEAL STEPHENSON This was probably rooted in a belief that had been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was...
NEAL STEPHENSON That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made ...
NEAL STEPHENSON How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?
NEAL STEPHENSON It had been a hell of a long time since he had been reduced to hiding behind a tree, and he did not ...
NEAL STEPHENSON In a manner familiar to anyone who had ever packed a car for a family trip, genial confusion gave wa...
NEAL STEPHENSON