FastSaying

The kids also develop a bound with the dog and they really look forward to come back on Wednesdays. A boy that I have helped for 14 months now can't wait to come read every week. For a kid that did not like to read, this is quite an accomplishment. This is great.


Lori 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

A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I did not come to this country for the terror from paramilitary," declared Voytek, hoarsely. "I did ...
WILLIAM GIBSON He's definitely aching to get back and I think this week is a great time for him to come back.
BRAD EKWEREKWU I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to...
CORY DOCTOROW There are some high-caliber teams here and placing anywhere in the top six is a great accomplishment...
CHAD LATCH I actually think that, a few months from now, we're going to look back at last week and maybe even t...
LINDA JAY Maybe the kids were a bit overwhelmed last year. I think they have a little bit more of a businessli...
FRANK SORIA For a young kid, who has gone through and conquered what he has, to read something like that, it's a...
JEREMY REED Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha...
CRAIG GROESCHEL It was something on one hand that you might regret, but every week is like that for us. As a coach y...
BRAD FULLER I have been waiting for Sean to come back every week, it is like putting Christmas back.
IAN MILLWARD Platt High School is a very good and very well-coached basketball team. For our kids to stay with th...
DENNIS REDICAN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW I admire the kid. Not for what he did, but how he's come back and he's worked and he's done things t...
LARRY BIRD I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the C...
GABRIEL BYRNE Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read q...
JOHN HUME I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU To have an eighth-grader step up like this is awesome. She just showed great composure to come back ...
DAN JUDD (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON That's why dollar/yen is totally supported, and people underestimate the fact that this is probably ...
LUKE WADDINGTON I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. A...
JOHN STARKS When I think about eighteen months ago when this all began and how far we've come, I can't wait to s...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.
CAREW PAPRITZ It is an amenity that we look forward to with great anticipation. We're not used to this. Before, we...
BILL SPENCER I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget...
CASSANDRA CLARE It has been a long 41/2 months, so far, since I last played, so I'm very keen to get back into the t...
MICHAEL OWEN But this week (the high school campers) is the week I look forward to the most. For five days, socce...
ALAN MEEDER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER I read something a while ago that back in 1920s there were 5,000 schools buildings in Maine, and now...
MICHAEL STARN There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ...
ROALD DAHL It's a heck of an accomplishment. My brother had told me all year that he's not only a great player,...
BOB LLOYD This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’r...
MINDY KALING When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you...
COLIN QUINN This text is a recipe for disaster, and many developing countries will not be able to convince peopl...
WALDEN BELLO Sometimes in this league you just get spanked, and you usually come back the next week looking to at...
MIKE RUCKER Usually, they come forward in about a week, others can take a couple of months to come in.
COURTNEY HILL You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has beco...
JEREMY RENNER The kids responded after last week. We really focused this week on coming out early and starting fas...
DAVID GIBBS Whenever these guys come back they always get into a fete match situation but now they have somethin...
LINCOLN PHILLIPS Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER To come away with wins in a big meet like this is a great accomplishment. We had a number of strong ...
JOE KRIEDER But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out ...
LAWRENCE KASDAN The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE As a trainer it is quite an accomplishment for your dogs to perform in such a large, prestigious ven...
DAWN GOEHRING We didn't specifically come to the park for the exhibit. I am not a great connoisseur of art. But, t...
JACKSON TAYLOR Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE We're the last people who were here during that time. It's really great to see this new generation c...
DAN ROONEY You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's always good to come back to a place where you have fond memories. It's such a big challenge, wi...
CHRIS BARNES Boy, the time really has flown by. Part of that is the anticipation and excitement of coming here ev...
LARRY PENLEY I can honestly say that this is the best summary of the housing bubble I have come across, and I rea...
CHARLES SMITH Yes, that is true, ... A mutual friend of ours told me that Alexandra wanted to give me that script,...
ISABELLE HUPPERT The discipline that these kids have to show and the workout and the regimen is grueling, but on the ...
JACK CONWAY So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON The hope is not only will they extend their stay for a vacation but they also will come back if they...
KAREN BRAND For the last two-three years, you didn't feel you had a permanent school. Now the kids should feel t...
DALE BARNES It is truly an honor to be a part of the American Idol phenomenon. As an artist myself, it is a plea...
PAULA ABDUL You don't talk a lot about winning much with a new team. You talk about doing things fundamentally r...
GARY MARINEAU It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL It's nice to have things to look forward to.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I was angry, I felt violated . I was angry for quite a while about it, and now I would just like to ...
JERRY KRAMER I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn'...
FLOYD ABRAMS My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye...
TERRY PRATCHETT I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. My son is 14, and I only have this time with him. True, it's not like before when I couldn't...
GLENNE HEADLY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age ...
RUSSELL SMITH He has come a long way. For him to skip No. 1 doubles and win this tournament the way he came back t...
ROBB AUDETTE A real thank you does not come by e-mail. They come in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out o...
LETITIA BALDRIGE I want to come back 10 years from now for a reunion and see that banner with my kids. Hopefully we'l...
BRIAN HERNANDEZ That was really something for Blake to come back and beat a kid he lost to earlier. That's good for ...
GUY BRICKELL He actually read that on his own, I didn't have a steal. He picked up a breaking ball. He did that o...
FRANK KNOX I feel very bad that Hassan is not here. Hassan Adams is a great kid, a great competitor, and he's g...
BEN HOWLAND It's just a great feeling. We felt a little bit of that pressure and after Friday night for those ki...
HARVEY STARBUCK These two days of hearings have been invaluable. I think every member of the committee learned somet...
BERNADETTE CASTRO We have a large group of citizens who look for continuing education opportunities and they really en...
JENNIFER PRATT This is a great opportunity for Denise and Kelly. Both have worked extremely hard since they came to...
LANCE HARTER Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...
ITALO CALVINO

More Lori Stephenson

This is the biggest fund-raiser of the year for the elementary.
LORI STEPHENSON I can tell that the boy I help is getting better. He is more comfortable and I push him with harder ...
LORI STEPHENSON The carnival is a good money raiser, but more importantly it's a good night of family fun. It's pret...
LORI STEPHENSON Parents are the workers at the carnival. It takes over 400 people to do it - that's an amazing numbe...
LORI STEPHENSON Businesses have been very generous in donating to our silent auction. They have donated many gift ce...
LORI STEPHENSON The high school will work nicely for the carnival, but we are looking very forward to getting to the...
LORI STEPHENSON The annual carnival is a tradition spanned a long time in Nevada. But this year we've added several ...
LORI 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 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