John Scales Quotations

I have a couple of lists that I can refer to throughout the day, but I don't have the official 'FAT' book yet. Yes, it really is called the FAT (Federal Acronym and Terms) book. And no, you can't speak a sentence around here without using an acronym,

Harry [Redknapp] is going to be literally, literally pulling his hair out.

That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.

We could only get to about 40 percent of the city, ... The remainder is still under water.

It looked to me like the world had ended. One second, it was a bustling city. The next second, people vanished. It just looked like, all of a sudden, everybody was gone.

Roxie (the neighbor) greeted me at her front door holding a 'hurricane baby,' ... It turns out that Roxie ... is housing five adults, a teenager, two infants (preemie twin boys born five days before the hurricane and weighing 3 1/2 and 4 1/2 pounds), two dogs, two cats and an iguana -- all evacuees of New Orleans. This is in addition to her own family.

It's a large task, but I'm very excited by the challenge,

The long-term recovery is going to be very long, with the amount of devastation,

Away from that part of town, we could drive on any side of the street that we wanted, ... It was quiet, too quiet.