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All week I'd think of the conversation I'd have with my parents the following Sunday after church, collecting imagined victories, social engagements, popularity, good behavior, although I had not told them I was going to Mass every Sunday or how little I missed the long silence of Quaker Meeting, only that noon was the best time for them to call.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Warm Springs'
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And what he decided he did not want to do was draw some lines when he felt at the time that the best way to approach it was to call for a bipartisan conversation and to create an environment where real compromise can be achieved, and not to win a political argument.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing
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Even the poetic powers of John Updike, a golf fan, would be stretched to conjure up new ways to call Tiger Woods the best golfer of all time.
NPR: Tiger Woods, Getting Better All the Time