Controlled Quotes

A lot of journalists who'd never dealt with Lucas, when they started competing ferociously for these stories, what they discovered is the land of Lucas is a very tightly controlled, rather rigorous domain. - Peter Bart

A laptop computer controlled the system and logged the data. While we looked primarily at wireless phones, we also discovered that emissions from other portable electronic devices were problematic. We feel that passenger use of portable electronic devices on aircraft should continue to be limited for the safety of all concerned. - Granger Morgan

A few people I talked to had been involved in Power of the Pen with me and said they missed it. They missed having the controlled environment to work on their writing. - Megan Grunewald

A dreary industrial town controlled by hoodlums of enormous wealth, the ethical sense of a pack of jackals and taste so degraded that it befouled everything it touched. - S. J. Perelman

[The Terrapins have controlled their series of late, winning four of the past five meetings and five of seven.] We've played really badly against them a couple of times... But we got so many new guys playing, it's really a nonfactor what happened in the past. - Rich Rodriguez

[The Democrats] lost in large part because of the ethics problems. Now only 11 years later, we have the Republicans acting just like the Democrats and maybe even worse. Worse yet, they're acting like nobody cares even though their approval rating is only 36 percent, a low comparable to the '94 approval rating [of the Democrat-controlled Congress]. - Melanie Sloan

[The administration] has certainly demonstrated a desire to have carefully-controlled events. - Lisa Graves

[That the band chose Harrisburg, better known for the Pennsylvania Chili Cookoff than a raucous hotbed of music, is an example of its theory of controlled success. Rather than trying to be a] an itty-bitty fish in a big pond like New York, ... The band built up a fan-base in Harrisburg and then began playing larger surrounding cities to get exposure. - Brett Scallions

[Oh, and TV is hopeless, too. Power lies with the Internet.] The Internet supersedes every mode of communication ever invented... news was no longer controlled, and never would be again. - Matt Drudge