Favorite Quotations
Monday, April 14, 2008
Quotes Update
Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Edmund Burke
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Author Unknown
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Oscar Wilde
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
Alexandre Dumas
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Carl Sandburg
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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Fine silver quotations Friday: C$18.773 ounce (Canadian Business)
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:43:29 GMT
The Canadian Press April 11, 2008 - 12:32 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.773 oz., $603.55 kg.; Thursday $18.974 oz., $610.01 kg.
Signpost (The Weber State University Signpost)
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:45:38 GMT
In 2003, Jayson Blair resigned from the New York Times after questions came up about quotes used in a story he had written. The story had similarities to one printed earlier in the San Antonio Express-News.
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:23:39 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation.FT-100 Index 5,895.50(- 69.60)(- 1.17 %) BAT Industries 1,909.00(-4.00)(- 0.21 %) BP Amoco 547.00(-3.00)(- 0.55 %) Diageo 1,049...
Press Quotes (All About Jazz)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:49:10 GMT
Gallo really knows what he is about and has clearly worked hard to create something new while not forgetting his past or his present. His music further confirms the definition of jazz as an aesthetic, a musical viewpoint, an attitude, and he and his band are to be watched.
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Today's Quotes:
Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Edmund Burke
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Author Unknown
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Oscar Wilde
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
Alexandre Dumas
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Carl Sandburg
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
More Quotations
Fine silver quotations Friday: C$18.773 ounce (Canadian Business)
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:43:29 GMT
The Canadian Press April 11, 2008 - 12:32 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.773 oz., $603.55 kg.; Thursday $18.974 oz., $610.01 kg.
Signpost (The Weber State University Signpost)
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:45:38 GMT
In 2003, Jayson Blair resigned from the New York Times after questions came up about quotes used in a story he had written. The story had similarities to one printed earlier in the San Antonio Express-News.
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:23:39 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation.FT-100 Index 5,895.50(- 69.60)(- 1.17 %) BAT Industries 1,909.00(-4.00)(- 0.21 %) BP Amoco 547.00(-3.00)(- 0.55 %) Diageo 1,049...
Press Quotes (All About Jazz)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:49:10 GMT
Gallo really knows what he is about and has clearly worked hard to create something new while not forgetting his past or his present. His music further confirms the definition of jazz as an aesthetic, a musical viewpoint, an attitude, and he and his band are to be watched.
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Latest greatest Famous Quotes
Dale Carnegie
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
John Haldane
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
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Quotes of the day (BBC News)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:36:37 GMT
The best lines from the second day of the Masters at Augusta
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:38:53 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.11 April10 April difference New York Dow Jones 12,438.9212,581.98(- 143.06) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,320.36 2,351.70(-31.34) TokioNikkei13,323.7312,945.30(+ 378.43...
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:47:01 GMT
"Our conflict with the Dalai clique is not an ethnic problem, not a religious problem, nor a human rights problem. It is a problem either to safeguard national unification or to split the motherland.'' -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on relations with the Dalai Lama and recent unrest in Tibet.
Shanghai: Saturday Quotes (Pitpass)
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:34:21 GMT
Shanghai: Saturday Quotes
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:38:34 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.New York Dow Jones 12,646.7112,527.26(+ 119.45) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,362.03 2,322.12(+39.91) TokyoNikkei12,945.3013,111.89(- 166.59) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,51...
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Dale Carnegie
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
John Haldane
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
More Quotes
Quotes of the day (BBC News)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:36:37 GMT
The best lines from the second day of the Masters at Augusta
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:38:53 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.11 April10 April difference New York Dow Jones 12,438.9212,581.98(- 143.06) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,320.36 2,351.70(-31.34) TokioNikkei13,323.7312,945.30(+ 378.43...
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:47:01 GMT
"Our conflict with the Dalai clique is not an ethnic problem, not a religious problem, nor a human rights problem. It is a problem either to safeguard national unification or to split the motherland.'' -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on relations with the Dalai Lama and recent unrest in Tibet.
Shanghai: Saturday Quotes (Pitpass)
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:34:21 GMT
Shanghai: Saturday Quotes
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:38:34 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.New York Dow Jones 12,646.7112,527.26(+ 119.45) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,362.03 2,322.12(+39.91) TokyoNikkei12,945.3013,111.89(- 166.59) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,51...
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Today's Quotations
Unknown
A friend is someone who knows you as you are, understands where you've been, accepts what you've become and still gently invites you to grow.
Alphonse Karr
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Dr. Robert Schuller
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Art Bell
Fear is a great motivator.
Benjamin Disraeli
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
Louis Pasteur
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Tobias Wolff
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Greek Proverb
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Bob Talbert
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
William James
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
George Herbert, 1651
The best mirror is an old friend.
More Quotations
Overheard: The best quotes from the U-M spring game (Detroit Free Press)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:11:42 GMT
Rich Rodriguez
Press Quotes (All About Jazz)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:49:10 GMT
Gallo really knows what he is about and has clearly worked hard to create something new while not forgetting his past or his present. His music further confirms the definition of jazz as an aesthetic, a musical viewpoint, an attitude, and he and his band are to be watched.
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Check out these Quotations:
Unknown
A friend is someone who knows you as you are, understands where you've been, accepts what you've become and still gently invites you to grow.
Alphonse Karr
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Dr. Robert Schuller
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Art Bell
Fear is a great motivator.
Benjamin Disraeli
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
Louis Pasteur
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Tobias Wolff
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Greek Proverb
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Bob Talbert
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
William James
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
George Herbert, 1651
The best mirror is an old friend.
More Quotations
Overheard: The best quotes from the U-M spring game (Detroit Free Press)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:11:42 GMT
Rich Rodriguez
Press Quotes (All About Jazz)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:49:10 GMT
Gallo really knows what he is about and has clearly worked hard to create something new while not forgetting his past or his present. His music further confirms the definition of jazz as an aesthetic, a musical viewpoint, an attitude, and he and his band are to be watched.
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Quotations for Today
William James
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Willa Sibert Cather
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004
My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.
George Walden
A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.
Francesco Petrarch
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Al Jaffee
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.
Sir Winston Churchill
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
Mickey Rooney
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Morley Saefer
Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do Go up to some people who are talking and laughing and say, 'Well, technically that's illegal.' It might fit in with what somebody just said. And even if it doesn't, so what, I hate this stupid party.
More Quotes
Overheard: The best quotes from the U-M spring game (Detroit Free Press)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:15:32 GMT
Rich Rodriguez
Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:31:20 GMT
“I really can never put myself in the category of people who have not only revolutionized music but also changed the world. That’s a completely different era and time ... I’m just feeling really happy and grateful.” — Mariah Carey, on surpassing Elvis Presley for the most No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.282 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:55:24 GMT
The Canadian Press April 9, 2008 - 1:39 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.282 oz., $619.92 kg.; Tuesday $18.64 oz., $599.28 kg.
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:37:13 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.11 April10 April difference New York Dow Jones 12,438.9212,581.98(- 143.06) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,320.36 2,351.70(-31.34) TokioNikkei13,323.7312,945.30(+ 378.43...
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:46:22 GMT
"Our conflict with the Dalai clique is not an ethnic problem, not a religious problem, nor a human rights problem. It is a problem either to safeguard national unification or to split the motherland.'' -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on relations with the Dalai Lama and recent unrest in Tibet.
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Today's Quotations:
William James
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Willa Sibert Cather
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004
My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.
George Walden
A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.
Francesco Petrarch
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Al Jaffee
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.
Sir Winston Churchill
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
Mickey Rooney
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Morley Saefer
Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do Go up to some people who are talking and laughing and say, 'Well, technically that's illegal.' It might fit in with what somebody just said. And even if it doesn't, so what, I hate this stupid party.
More Quotes
Overheard: The best quotes from the U-M spring game (Detroit Free Press)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:15:32 GMT
Rich Rodriguez
Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:31:20 GMT
“I really can never put myself in the category of people who have not only revolutionized music but also changed the world. That’s a completely different era and time ... I’m just feeling really happy and grateful.” — Mariah Carey, on surpassing Elvis Presley for the most No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.282 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:55:24 GMT
The Canadian Press April 9, 2008 - 1:39 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.282 oz., $619.92 kg.; Tuesday $18.64 oz., $599.28 kg.
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:37:13 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.11 April10 April difference New York Dow Jones 12,438.9212,581.98(- 143.06) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,320.36 2,351.70(-31.34) TokioNikkei13,323.7312,945.30(+ 378.43...
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:46:22 GMT
"Our conflict with the Dalai clique is not an ethnic problem, not a religious problem, nor a human rights problem. It is a problem either to safeguard national unification or to split the motherland.'' -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on relations with the Dalai Lama and recent unrest in Tibet.
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Latest greatest Famous Quotes
Washington Irving
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Jeanne-Marie Roland
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Oriana Fallaci
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
Albert Einstein
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Johann von Goethe
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
Howard Tayler, Rule 12: Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Schlock Mercenary
A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.
Randall Wallace
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
Thomas Jefferson
No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.
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Dubai - Race 2 Quotes (Pitpass)
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:34:22 GMT
Dubai - Race 2 Quotes
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.282 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:49:30 GMT
The Canadian Press April 9, 2008 - 1:39 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.282 oz., $619.92 kg.; Tuesday $18.64 oz., $599.28 kg.
Phoenix: Ford teams race quotes (Motorsport.com)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:42:15 GMT
HAVE YOU EVER PASSED AS MANY CARS AS YOU DID TONIGHT? "No, I don't know that I've ever passed that many cars at a race track ever. The car was really good. That's a great Ford Fusion there, but we just got some setbacks there, one penalty and one tire got loose.
Phoenix: Dodge teams race quotes (Motorsport.com)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:27:08 GMT
"We really fought all night. I don't want to say that these cars don't drive good because they can drive better. My car just didn't drive good tonight, so I just don't want to piss Carl Edwards off. We just didn't do the best job that we could do. We came here and tested and were awful.
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Here are the Famous Quotes ...
Washington Irving
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Jeanne-Marie Roland
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Oriana Fallaci
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
Albert Einstein
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Johann von Goethe
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
Howard Tayler, Rule 12: Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Schlock Mercenary
A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.
Randall Wallace
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
Thomas Jefferson
No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.
More Quotes
Dubai - Race 2 Quotes (Pitpass)
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:34:22 GMT
Dubai - Race 2 Quotes
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.282 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:49:30 GMT
The Canadian Press April 9, 2008 - 1:39 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.282 oz., $619.92 kg.; Tuesday $18.64 oz., $599.28 kg.
Phoenix: Ford teams race quotes (Motorsport.com)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:42:15 GMT
HAVE YOU EVER PASSED AS MANY CARS AS YOU DID TONIGHT? "No, I don't know that I've ever passed that many cars at a race track ever. The car was really good. That's a great Ford Fusion there, but we just got some setbacks there, one penalty and one tire got loose.
Phoenix: Dodge teams race quotes (Motorsport.com)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:27:08 GMT
"We really fought all night. I don't want to say that these cars don't drive good because they can drive better. My car just didn't drive good tonight, so I just don't want to piss Carl Edwards off. We just didn't do the best job that we could do. We came here and tested and were awful.
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