The Flames.

Tom Hanks stayed off-stage Wednesday, but spoke for many of the 3100 attendees and dozen key performers with his effusiveness on the red carpet. “To me Joni Mitchell was this wide, beautiful quilt that covered my growing up,” he told Variety. “All of her songs were of a very particular sort of DNA. And because I was a guy, I should have been probably more impervious to what was there. But ‘Blue” was it for me, and when you hear ‘California’ or ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ or all those other songs, it was the fiber of my youth,” the actor continued. “It’s Beethoven. It’s the Beatles. It’s Handel. It’s classics that’ll last forever and ever and ever. It’ll never go away. It’ll never not be moving and timely.”

“The great shapes of the hills, embrowned and glowing with the molten hues of autumn,
are all about him: the towering summits, wild and lonely, full of joy and strangeness
and their haunting premonitions of oncoming winter soar above him,
the gulches, gorges, gaps, and wild ravines, fall sheer and suddenly away with a dizzy terrifying steepness...”
― Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and The River

"He dint do nothing."

Mueller issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, obtained nearly 500 search warrants and interviewed 500 witnesses,
and it's just galling to the president that "he had to go through this."