John Thorne Quotations

We appreciate the hard work of the Department of Justice staff in bringing this merger to resolution. The consent decree will result in no disruption to MCI customers. We are eager to begin offering the benefits of this new combination to customers as soon as possible.

Second place wouldn't be that important, except in this case second place is held by Babe Ruth, who is the central figure in baseball history. He is more like Paul Bunyan. He's a mythical figure. Passing Babe Ruth is a big deal, but not because he's in second place.

From imported professionals it should have been a short step to hiring men of varying ethnic and racial backgrounds, and it was.

When I realized what was going on, I wanted to give. If you've got things that make sense to give, then we should do it.

We are pleased that Pat and Paul have joined us, and their stellar career history and reputation among clients is what makes them a perfect fit for us. They broaden our client base and add depth of experience in the chemical, biotechnology, international policy, and defense sectors, where technical expertise plays such a strong role in successful government relations.

We are eager to begin offering the benefits of this new combination as soon as possible.

Baseball leaves a footprint of all its games on our minds in a way continuous-action sports can't.

Baseball is the first of our national team sports. It is the game of memory from when we are children, not only in terms of learning how many home runs Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron hit, but in remembering the score of the game our dads first took us to or where we made that catch in center field that we still can't believe.

Baseball is in danger, everyone agrees. Player salaries are skyrocketing while revenues - and soon, perhaps, teams - are contracting.

The result was very predictable: Nothing. They went back to the Braves.

They acquire a kind of patina with age.

Desperate scribes and headline writers were trying to save character counts.

It's silly, just to the ear. It implies that this team can do what no one else can, which is to be in two places at one time. Especially two places that are 35 miles apart.

Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.

Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.

Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.

It can only truly be Texas red if it walks the thin line just this side of indigestibility: Damning the mouth that eats it and defying the stomach to digest it, the ingredients are hardly willing to lie in the same pot together.