Mr. Bryson has always written most endearingly about the oddball small-town encounter or kitschy tourist detail (about a giant model of a lobster: " 'Big, isn't it?' " I remarked at last, for very little escapes me in the world of fiberglass crustaceans").
Around ten minutes before the closing remarks at last week's Women's Empowerment Principles annual event, my laptop decided that it was done for the day, and switched itself off.
One of them, Rick Cleveland, was livid about not being able to make any remarks at last year's Emmy ceremony at which an episode he wrote with Sorkin (the one about the homeless war veteran) was honored.
In his remarks at last year's iftar, President Obama said that Ramadan is "a time for family and friends to come together... in a spirit of love and respect....".
"She was the only one of us who had the gift of breathing freely," her troubled grandson remarks, and "Sunshine," at last, honors that gift.
Patten begins What Next? by citing approvingly Margaret Thatcher's remark at her last cabinet meeting, "It's a funny old world".
The Heart of a Woman ends with Guy leaving for college and Angelou remarking to herself, "At last, I'll be able to eat the whole breast of a roast chicken by myself".
Mr. Bloomberg was as humorous on Monday night as he was in his remarks at a reception last Tuesday at the JWT ad agency.
In his remarks at the event last Thursday, the President said: "People living with HIV/AIDS may have lost their immunity, but they have not lost their humanity".
In fact, it was almost 12 months later that I at last remarked that I finally felt at home in the lab.
