Issue: "Snakepit," Feb. 11, 2006

Quotables

Memorable things they said

"Don't ever ask the question, 'What else could happen?'"

New Orleans mortgage banker Marcia Paul Leone after tornadoes on Feb. 2 blew through New Orleans neighborhoods five months after Hurricane Katrina.

"It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13."

Jodie Sweetin, who played middle sister Stephanie Tanner on the hit sitcom Full House until it went off the air in 1995, on the difficulties of life after being a child star. Ms. Sweetin, 24, revealed last week that she is recovering from an addiction to methamphetamine.

"It makes me wonder if I still got some dry cleaning out there."

Doug Schmitt of Lake Ariel, Pa., on recovering a wallet he lost in 1967 that still contained his old driver's license, $5, some postage stamps, and a dry-cleaning receipt. A gas station owner in Logan, Utah, had apparently stuck the wallet in a lost-and-found drawer, where it sat for almost 40 years.

"No. I'm crazy, but I hope my kids are sane."

Female boxer Laila Ali on whether she wants her kids to follow her and their famous grandfather into the sport.

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