Calif Quotes

(BURBANK, Calif. Aug 16, 2005 ? Like the unsolved crimes he investigates, Detective Scotty Valens has a hidden past.) He`s very much veiled in some mystery about where he came from, how it is he got into the department so quickly, the secrets he holds, ... Cold Case.

(The film was completed by 2002 and screened at several festivals, winning awards in Atlantic City and Palm Springs, Calif. It had distribution offers, including one from one of the) classic ... simply had not had a good track record.

(Richmond.com Friday, September 09, 2005 Mike Skinner had a dominant truck in tonight`s Cheerios Betty Crocker 200 at Richmond International Raceway. Even after finding himself in 7th place on lap 149, the Susanville, Calif. native methodically passed truck after truck. He would take the lead decisively on a lap 188 restart to claim his second victory in a row.) This Toyota Tundra would go anywhere I wanted it to go ... This is a great race track. We could run about 3 grooves tonight

(He`d better be, because the new space race already is under way and competition is shaping up as fierce. Rutan`s chief rival may ultimately be Elon Musk. A former Internet mogul who in 2002 sold his online payment company, PayPal, to eBay for $1.5 billion in stock, Musk now runs SpaceX in El Segundo, Calif., which is developing an orbital space vehicle. Musk notes that making it into orbit requires going eight times faster and producing 65 times more rocket energy than a suborbital vehicle like SpaceShipOne. Musk has already put more than $50 million into SpaceX and says he is prepared to invest $50 million more. He expects it to take at least five years to get passengers into orbit. In the meantime, SpaceX is generating revenue by booking orders to launch satellites; its first such launch is scheduled for January.) Our earned revenue will be $35 million after a little more than two years of operation, ... By comparison, the X-Prize was a one-off of $10 million, and it took Burt something like five years to do it.

(Exhibit B: E.J. Rowland , a 6-2 senior point guard from Salinas, Calif. Rowland had wanted to come to St. Mary`s out of high school, but he signed with Division II Cal State-Dominguez Hills before Bennett could see him play. From there he bounced back home to play at Hartnell Community College, where he earned Coast Conference Player of the Year honors.) I saw E.J. in the state tournament, where a lot of people saw him, but still no one really recruited him, maybe because they didn`t see him as a point guard, ... We did. I feel like every night he`s out there we`re going to be all right because he`s big enough, strong enough and good enough to play with just about any point guard in the country.

(Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., obviously not a student of history, is demanding that Roberts cough up his personal views on political issues during his hearings.) What is not a good thing to do is stonewall the (Judiciary) Committee, ... The American people are entitled to know what this man`s views are.

(Some winemakers have doubts about Sisson`s plan.) If you`re talking about a transaction that involves a consumer in Florida and a producer in Saratoga, Calif., where is the value-add in inserting this middleman? ... The only thing it accomplishes is for wholesalers to participate in the profits of that transaction.