John Wagner Quotations

We're filling a little bit of a niche. It's tough to sell 40,000 (concert) tickets in a stadium. Most of the (amphitheaters) do 16,000 to 18,000, and we're in the 20,000-plus range. We can do a concert on a Friday night and a soccer game on Saturday. That's unheard of for stadium venues.

A lot of times the violator will contact us and we will negotiate a settlement which normally includes corrective action within a specified time and payment of a penalty.

It's a serious situation. It appears somebody was trying to hide the fact that they had a discharge that was not permitted.

We consider discharging without a permit to be a very significant violation and we will seek substantial penalties for such violations.

High density is not the way to protect our neighborhoods. This does not give an adequate buffer for the people who have lived in their homes for 50 years.

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

There's a thrill in going someplace you aren't supposed to go. The place should come down.

I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.