She just had an outstanding conformation. It's nice to be able to buy into such a great pedigree. We were expecting to spend a lot, but $2.7-million sort of caught us by surprise. You want to do the right thing, though. Maybe she'll make that look like a bargain.

He's got what I call an outstanding pedigree.

We played outstanding defensively and were able to get out of a few jams.

We buy a lot of extra things that we ordinarily wouldn't be able to buy.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out at me from the back, their legs dangling as they jabbered in Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes pointing and giggling at my family following slowly behind them in our car.