James Hall Quotations

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

The real focus of the investigation ... is to get those recorders,

Had they not released the fish alive ? and I think releasing it is the right thing to do ? I think they might have made quite a bit of money.

Today is a day for remembering -- remembering the many wonderful contributions each and every one of your loved ones made to others whose lives they touched, ... I hope you can draw strength from each other today and some comfort knowing that people all around the world share your grief.

It is obviously up to the FAA and the industry to work out the time frame that that needs to be done.

Our investigators have looked at all the radar tapes that exist from that evening and have not seen anything that indicates a missile track or missile hit,

Our work will continue and we will spare no effort to determine exactly what happened to TWA 800,

I think his argument would have been stronger if a lot of the information had come from him instead of different people.

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

You can get patents on games, and what's the end result of a game? ... Laughter, tears, emotions--the same thing as a movie.

The debris fields are as dangerous as any we have dealt with in NTSB experience, so we are going to try to accomplish this task with these remote vehicles,

We are committed and intend to find out what caused this accident.

Two things are driving our investigation, ... We want to know the ignition source on TWA Flight 800. Secondly, we want to know what steps need to be taken to prevent an accident like this from recurring in the future.

This was a very serious incident. Both this airline and this airport should know better than to tamper with evidence of a federal investigation of this incident,

Things like that really don't happen, but this is not your typical suburb, it's part of the city.

The work is not completed until the American people know that when they get on a passenger plane, ... it has a smoke detection and suppression systems,

It was unclear whether the damage was pre-impact or from hitting the water,

The situation down there is too dangerous to send divers. That's the reason we wanted the other ROV (remote-controlled robot),

The bottom line is it took the ValuJet accident for that to happen.

As long as there are differences in the interpretation -- and there are significant differences in the cultural interpretations of some expressions on the recorder -- I think it is unfair ... for us to characterize it,

This market used to be a knife fight. Now it's a cage match, and everyone has chain saws.

It's all a matter of opinion. The goal is to do better than I did last year, which is more than 11 1/2 sacks. I'm not big on statistics, but that is the goal.

It's simply because there are people who are out there who didn't think a bass can grow to more that 22.25 pounds. It's because of how elusive the record has been for so many years.

It's important for the citizens of this country and the citizens of the world to know there were more American citizens on that flight than citizens from any other country,

It wasn't anything that bugged me or motivated me.

It was more stressful for my mom, but it was a stressful situation for me, on top of a more stressful situation here. Not to use that as an excuse, but that was just the reality of it.

I'm just worried about winning games, ... Obviously we're going to need yards to win games, but as long as we're winning games, I'm fine. If that means me catching lots of balls, great. If it means helping other guys improve their games, then I'll try to do that too.

In addition to doing patrols with them, we've tried to spend some of our off-time with them to cheer them up,

I believe he used a key of some sort to get free of the handcuffs,

This hospital should be federally funded. This is not something that we should have to hold bake sales for. That sounds harsh, but it's true. We should be raising money for other worthwhile causes and not for things that our government should be paying for. It's shame that we have to do this, but more and more troops are coming home injured everyday.