” I mean, we can only say we’re running out of time so many times.”
— ADAM SILVER, the NBA’s deputy commissioner discussing the lockout negotiations (via Sports Illustrated)
” I mean, we can only say we’re running out of time so many times.”
— ADAM SILVER, the NBA’s deputy commissioner discussing the lockout negotiations (via Sports Illustrated)
“(The Rapture will) be finished out on Oct. 21, that’s coming very shortly. That looks like it will be … the final end of everything.”
— HAROLD CAMPING, giving an update on when the Rapture, an event he says started on May …
“If Florida moves, it would create chaos. The calendar would be so compressed that the states that are trying to more relevant, that I don’t think it would do any good for them.”
— CHAD CONNELLY, South Carolina GOP chairman, …
“People who ate a contaminated food two weeks ago or even a week ago could still be falling sick weeks later.”
— DR. ROBERT TAUXE of the Center for Disease Control explaining the number of illnesses from listeria-tainted …
“God have mercy on your souls.”
-TROY DAVIS, who was executed by lethal injection in Jackson, Ga., on Sept. 21, 2011, directed his last words to his executioners. (via AP)
“This is not going to be popular. But, we’re not here to be popular. We’re here to do what needs to be done.”
— DEBORAH HERSMAN, National Transportation Safety Board chairperson, on proposing a ban on cell phone use by …
“The driver seemed to have not seen her because of a large tree at the intersection…[Reese Witherspoon] was lucky, because it could have been much more serious.”
—WITNESS, who saw a car strike actress Reese Witherspoon while …
“It looked like (the pilot) was trying to right the plane or take off again. You’re speeding up a bit, and the ‘whoom,’ you’re sort of whiplashed around.”
— DAVID ROSS, a passenger in the United Express plane that slid …
Poet and author Maya Angelou is irked by an inscription on the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial that she believes “minimizes the man.” (via Washington Post)
“Every storm comes up with a surprise. In this case it was one where it went downhill.”
— BILL READ, National Hurricane Center director, explaining there is still plenty of ground to cover in forecasting hurricanes, but he …
“People think hurricanes are a Southern thing, but people in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast need to take Irene seriously. We have a lot of time for people to get ready but we don’t have forever.”
— CRAIG FUGATE, the Federal …