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  • I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it. -- Josh Holloway
  • I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies. -- Dan Fogelberg
  • Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
  • We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
  • So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object! -- Edgar Bergen
  • The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. -- Ellsworth Huntington
  • Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. -- Zebulon Pike
  • Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell. -- Francis Parkman
  • 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
  • The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. -- Art Buchwald
  • So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig. -- John Hanning Speke
  • 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
  • My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
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  • This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm. -- Ken Ludwig
  • My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised. -- Jack Herer
  • I grew up in Buffalo, New York, and was a big Bills fan. -- Lex Luger
  • Of course Toronto might as well be Buffalo, because we get each other's TV. -- Kevin McDonald
  • I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo. -- Megan Smith
  • My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo. -- Helene D. Gayle
  • I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100. -- Jack Kemp
  • I used to date a girl from Buffalo. Why can't I meet a girl with normal parents? -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • It was the Buffalo Bills at the Minnesota Vikings on NBC. It went to about five markets. -- Al Michaels
  • I can't tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills. -- Rex Ryan
  • I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL. -- Steve Henderson
  • I like to watch old films. Meet Me in St Louis, Cul-de-Sac and Buffalo 66 are some of my favourites. -- Stella Vine
  • I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength. -- Rick James
  • I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces. -- Ted Nugent
  • "Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock -- Chris Hillman
  • Khufu carefully picked out everything that ended with-o"?Doritos, Oreos, and some chunks of meat. Buffalo? Armadillo? I was scared to even ask. -- Rick Riordan
  • I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL. -- Jami Attenberg
  • Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't know why. -- Casey Kasem
  • I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I'll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right. -- Kevin Hart
  • At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo - slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space. -- Bernard Cooper
  • My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me. -- Rob Roberge
  • I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical. -- Megan Smith
  • An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage. -- Charles Schumer
  • GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • I'm a health nut, but when I eat, I go hard. I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I'll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right. -- Kevin Hart
  • Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death -- e. e. cummings
  • I've always been intrigued with the variety of answers this generation will give their children who ask, "Where did I come from, Mommy?" They will range from "Number 176 vial in Buffalo, New York," to "You were defrosted." -- Erma Bombeck
  • Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo as it was a big city. Even today, the bigger the city, the better. -- Paul Smith
  • What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset. -- Crowfoot
  • Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'- New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco. -- Frank Norris
  • Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design. -- Richard Moe
  • Buffalo rib-eye steaks, on the grill, is my favorite meal, seriously. It has less fat, more vitamins and more protein than beef. It is wonderful. Look, it was what the Indians ate, and they were very healthy. It's very good meat. -- Terry Crews
  • Buffalo rib-eye steaks, on the grill, is my favorite meal, seriously. It has less fat, more vitamins and more protein than beef. It is wonderful. Look, it was what the Indians ate, and they were very healthy. It's very good meat. -- Terry Crews
  • Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name -- Stephen Stills
  • It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is 'Buffalo '66,' which is a film by Vincent Gallo. It's about how you break down all those barriers and expose yourself and open yourself up to ultimately being hurt. -- Jim Sturgess
  • I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones... -- Stephen Stills
  • I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for. -- David Mamet
  • No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone. -- Henry George
  • Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce and thought of elevating wings into a specialty? -- Calvin Trillin
  • I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of oil-powered globalism dissolves. Places like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit will have a new life, but not at the scale of the twentieth century. -- James Howard Kunstler
  • I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're from Buffalo - there isn't really that much to do. When we started we were a cover band and slowly developed our own material. -- John Rzeznik
  • Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been more than ten miles from home, you were part of the puzzle, too. It didn't matter how small your life was. -- Paul Auster
  • The situation at Buffalo was a rough situation, and I appreciate the opportunity, but going back to Seattle was a better situation, even though I'm not the starter. I've got a chance to get back with some familiar faces, back at a place I'm familiar with. -- Tarvaris Jackson
  • I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie mice, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak. -- Sitting Bull
  • My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in return. After my father served proudly in the U.S. Army, they settled in Buffalo, N.Y., and were able to live the American Dream. -- Thomas Perez
  • 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
  • When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I had the Buffalo shoes, a customised Baby Spice necklace - when I say custom-made, it was made out of plastic from the local mall - and a Union Jack dress. -- Blake Lively
  • The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.... -- Luther Standing Bear
  • A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in calming you down than a spouse or partner. Most dog owners can guess the reason why: dogs never judge us and never compete with us. -- Marjorie Garber
  • The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure. -- Mario Cuomo
  • Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel the repetition. The buffalo goes on eating the same grass every day with the same delight. You cannot. How can you eat the same grass with the same delight? You get fed up. -- Rajneesh
  • I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track. -- Buffalo Bill
  • A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie. -- Travie McCoy
  • Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo. -- Jamie Dimon
  • The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do? -- George Crook
  • 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. -- Gilbert White
  • There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals. -- Val Kilmer
  • 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
  • I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back! -- Paul Engle
  • I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticides. So I turned to bear, caribou, venison, hippopotamus, buffalo, elk and moose. Taste-wise, buffalo and elk are tied for first. Not gamy, and loaded with protein. And very expensive, I might add. -- Billy Casper
  • Sorry I don't eat buffalo. -- Jessica Simpson
  • The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border. -- Sitting Bull
  • The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard. -- James Dickey
  • Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter. -- Sid Waddell
  • Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo. -- Garrison Keillor
  • Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers. -- Roderick Haig-Brown
  • It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country. -- William Henry Ashley
  • Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really. -- David Douglas Duncan
  • A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people. -- Sitting Bull
  • The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings. -- Jim Gaffigan
  • For a healthy alternative to buffalo wings, slide the bone of a human finger into a block of tofu and bake. -- Giada De Laurentiis
  • Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo. -- Rick Riordan
  • Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo. -- H. Rider Haggard
  • The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof. -- Ted Nugent
  • [For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo. -- Lewis H. Lapham
  • Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age. -- H.W. Brands
  • The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date. -- Theodore Parker
  • Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow. -- Charles Clover
  • This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees. -- Nancy Banks-Smith
  • Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives. -- James Alexander Thom
  • As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner who obtains the offspring, even thus ,it is with the wives of others. -- Guru Nanak
  • Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo. -- Wilma Mankiller
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