And so we'd be listening to the radio and he'd say, 'Can you hear that deep noise there?
Sometimes he'd say, 'here, have a seat, ' and he'd throw on a few stops, " referring to the knobs or tabs ranged near the organ keyboard that control the sound, "and let me play.
"I'd ask my coach how I was doing compared to the other amputees, and he'd say 'About the same, ' " Traum remembered.
' Richard would be polite--he'd say, 'Thank you very much'--and the meeting was over.
" I asked, hoping he'd say, "Oh, I sensed a little glitch on your part.
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If you congratulated him, he'd say thanks, smile, shrug and ask about you instead.
" Mr. Ross added, "He'd say, 'I like the thing that sounds like a bird of prey.
'Get your orange juice, ' he'd say, and then we would drive 500 miles to see some accordion player.
Half the time the guy's streetcar would come, and he'd say, "Forget it, " and jump on his tram.
He'd say, 'Now, here's a tune and this is the harmony to it.
As we became more serious about each other, we had serious talks: He couldn't give me the life I wanted, he'd say.
"Ask Facebook about Facebook, ask Google about Google, " was all he'd say.
When I asked my old room-mate and former England keeper David Seaman what his ideal game was, I thought he'd say it would be having loads to do without letting any goals in.
Over beers, "he'd say stuff like, 'This city councilman is ruining the country, ' and I'd say, 'Well, I don't see how one city councilman can ruin a country, but whatever, ' " Mr. Kent said.
Embarrassingly I'd say he's almost better than Connery -- I never thought I'd say it ... but he is incredibly good.
Mike Beauchamp, a Verizon customer and blogger from Wichita, Kansas, said he started the Change.org petition 11 days ago after he heard Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam say he'd consider killing cell phone contracts if consumers asked for it.
Ed Balls will promise that, as chancellor, he'd have "tough fiscal rules" but he won't say what they'd be (much more significant is his concession that they would be judged independently and not by him as they were when he was last in the Treasury).
He fell a little bit short but I'd like to say he made a decent effort going from number 36 to eight, and then finishing the year at number 11.
What he didn't say was that he'd already collected money from building-products trusts based on his claims of being a construction worker.
"I'd say he was unconscious for 2 or 3 minutes, but we gave him some oxygen and that seemed to help, " Wurmser said.
Those are fighting words from a man who likes to say he'd rather dance than fight.
So I'd say that he's playing the best golf in the world right now.
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