Buffalo Quotes

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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.

- Buffalo Bill

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

- Buffalo Bill

(when asked how being in prison has changed her angry and aggressive "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" character, Faith:) "How would prison change anyone? There was something about the fact that she`s a Slayer, so she wouldn`t really be there unless she wanted to be because she`s got superhuman strength. She could have busted out of that joint if she really wanted to, but she and Angel developed this relationship. He was leading her down the road to redemption, kind of facing the things she`s done and recovering from that and hopefully being a better her. She`s been in there, doing the time, thinking. She`s still a tough girl, but she really has to suppress her demons a little more. In these past few ("Angel") shows, that`s what we`re seeing -- her teetering on the line between the old her and the new her." (Buffalo News, March 17, 2003)

- Eliza Dushku

In the Buffalo game, Willie had one long run,

- Jerome Bettis

(on having Alyson Hannigan cross over from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) to play a role on _"Angel" (1999/I)_ in the episode "Orpheus":) "It`s a blast. I feel like it`s a play day. I have to keep reminding myself that I`m at work. My girl is here! We`re not getting to see much of each other. She has three jobs on her plate -- she`s doing the next "American Pie" movie, she`s doing "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) and today on _"Angel" (1999/I)_. She`s a busy woman, so it`s a double delight. I keep looking at her, and inside I keep giggling, and I keep thinking to myself, `I have to remember I`m in a scene. I can`t just smile at my fiancée.` But really all I want to do is run over and give her a hug." (Buffalo News, March 17, 2003)

- Alexis Denisof

I sometimes think that if porny films had come along when I was a young man, it would have dispensed with a lot of friction in my personal life. (in a conversation with his son, John Buffalo Mailer in Playboy`s Dec. 2004 issue).

- Norman Mailer

The person had to be really familiar with the main sites in Buffalo.

- Robert Brown

An old friend of mine is doing Buffalo Bill. The ensemble is quite terrific. It`s got a great energy, and it`s a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

- Tom Wopat

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what`s causing them, but it`s upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

- Ed Wood

Of course Toronto might as well be Buffalo, because we get each other`s TV.

- Kevin McDonald

It was a tough time. Eddie was the starter, I was the backup. Fortunately, Mike traded me to Buffalo and it was good luck for me. Finally, I proved to myself I could be a starting goalie.

- Dominik Hasek

We did our job by winning our game. What are you going to do? They fought back. They`re the hottest team in the league and they showed they could fight to the end. They deserve it and now we`ve got to focus on Buffalo.

- Simon Gagne

We dominated the game in Buffalo because of the start. The start of the game is very important for us, especially with the type of team we have.

- Simon Gagne

(Terrell Owens clashed with Jeff Garcia and now Donovan McNabb. Randy Moss irked Daunte Culpepper and earned a trip out of town. And all the while, in Indianapolis, Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison hum along as the NFL`s best marriage. With four more touchdown connections, the Colts duo will surpass the 49ers` Steve Young and Jerry Rice as the most prolific quarterback-receiver tandem in history. (Young and Rice hooked up for 85 touchdowns.) With 129 more passing yards, Manning and Harrison will top the Buffalo Bills` Jim Kelly and Andre Reed for the most yards (9,538) between thrower and catcher. Former 49ers Coach Bill Walsh called Manning and Harrison) brilliant performers ... He could be the best offensive coordinator in the league. He is truly an outstanding coach.

- Tom Moore

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

- Dan Fogelberg

When I was 15, 16 and joining this band when I was 18, I was just enthralled, and going to a basement and seeing it filled with kids was the best thing in the world. Now I`m looking at it like `Basements? Is that really as good as it gets here?` And now there are Buffalo bands saying they`re only going to play basements, like a rebellion thing. For us, there weren`t any other options.

- Keith Buckley

They put Buffalo on the map for this kind of music. All these bands growing up around here looked up to them and just looked out for each other.

- Keith Buckley

SUNY Buffalo - It`s not about getting it right; it`s about getting it true. (2003)

- Stephen Henderson

You try not to play different, but there`s something subconsciously as a team when you know somebody is back there like we had in Buffalo with Hasek. You`re going to make mistakes and a goalie like Nik can cover them up.

- Curtis Brown

Buffalo are dangerous and unpredictable animals, we need to treat them with respect and give them plenty of room.

- Richard Miller

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive. And once any system succeeds, it becomes its own worst enemy. The good things we create soon create bad things. So nothing is ever going to be Utopian, and when I make films like Nashville (1975) and (Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull`s History Lesson (1976)), it`s not to say we`re the worst country in the world, or God, what awful people these are. I`m just saying we`re at this point and it`s sad.

- Robert Altman

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

- Dennis Banks

Buffalo is way ahead of the curve. We`re one of the leaders in the nation in pay for performance, because we`ve been doing this for 10 years or so,

- Don Robinson

I met a lady there from Buffalo, Mo., and I shared about the mission trip we took to the Ukraine last year and how I had saw a little girl there who I wished I could take home with me, ... That`s when she told me she knew a lady who worked for an adoption agency and how they bring these Russian kids over to stay with host families for a couple of weeks.

- Tammy White

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

- Sitting Bull

He said Frank Reich was always there pushing him to be better every day. That`s the way it was ... and that`s the way it`s going to be for as long as I`m a Buffalo Bill. I accept that.

- J.P. Losman

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

- Alex Saitta

(He also wields sharp wordplay and insight on) Yellow Buffalo Shoe, ... When I do, I become cool, I get respect automatically. When I do, you music fools cannot deny credibility.

- Andy Doniger

My first season at Buffalo, Geoff was at Rochester and I would come down from Buffalo to visit him all the time. It was 50 minutes away. I`d drive up and we`d go to dinner.

- Anna Utec

The disappearance was treated as a theft because one of the padlocks to the field had been cut, and there was no obvious trail or indication that the buffalo had simply wandered off.

- Anthony Conroy

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

- Anthony Ferrer

Buffalo Creek was caused by a lake up on a hill that literally broke loose and washed down and just literally took out a community. I was down there the day after the disaster, and it was, I`ve never seen anything like it. Not only did it wreck the community, but it threw it other places. People were running around, who did survive, lots didn`t. But, people were running around looking for their homes.

- B.J. Sander

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It`s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

- Barbara Holland