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“Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico”
William Faulkner
“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.”
Joan Didion
“He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence”
Samuel Johnson
“We had two back-to-back hurricanes and then Wilma happened as well, knocking out much of the Gulf of Mexico's natural gas production.”
Alicia Dixon
“A number of our faculty have offered their homes for faculty from the Gulf Coast.”
Andrew Sorensen
“We haven't been able to find an answer to the Persian Gulf Syndrome,”
Anthony Principi
“We still have almost 20 percent of production offline on the Gulf Coast. Because of that the whole market is being driven by what people think demand is going to do. And that essentially translates into weather.”
Andrew Melnykovych
“If the Fed were to pause, what does it actually do for anybody ... in the afflicted Gulf region? At this point they're more concerned with basic food and shelter and not really comparison-shopping for mortgages.”
Barry Ritholtz
“We've encouraged ranchers along the Gulf Coast to move their livestock to safer places, preferably to higher ground.”
Beverly Boyd
“Almost all of the Gulf of Mexico off of the state of Florida is restricted airspace; it's where we train our military, ... The ace up my sleeve is, at this time in our nation's history, you don't want to fool around with training our military to be the absolute best - and you can't be doing those joint exercises if you've got oil rigs down there on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.”
Bill Nelson
