"I'm glad it was an exercise in futility and nothing happened. Now, it's back to work."

"I'm glad it was an exercise in futility and nothing happened. Now, it's back to work."
Ed Bajorek of Houston
On boarding up his residential kitchen appliance store to protect it from Hurricane Rita.
"It doesn't happen anywhere -- I guess only in America."
Moses Bittock
Originally from Kenya and now of West Des Moines, Iowa, on learning he won $1.89 million in the state lottery shortly after he took the oath of U.S citizenship.
"I have come a long way. My ancestors were slaves, they fought for freedom."
Michaelle Jean, 48
The daughter of Haitian exiles, on becoming Queen Elizabeth II's new representative in Canada -- the first black and only the third woman to hold the title of governor general.