"See her over there?  Don't make eye contact...she's a working girl."

Greg Alban, red-haired Spartan, my personal advisor in Shanghai

"...and these are the stairs that lead to nowhere."

Erin Mos, mother on-the-go, project undertaker

"Good luck jumping into the deep end...you'll find out the water isn't that deep."

Scott Slaggie, architect

"There's nothing wrong with being a pretty boy."

Josh Shelton, designer, architect, studio professor to a wide-eyed architecture student

"Why does a Corolla have to look like a Corolla?"

David Lane (Denver's adopted son, landscape architect, and car officianado)

"Daddy, your face smells like work."

Kate Payton, age 4