I thought it was showmanship. I didn't think it was real. I was just a deer in headlights. I didn't know what to do. ... He would reload, and shoot and anyone who would try to leave would just get killed." - Jennifer Seeger, who said she was in the second row, about four feet from James Eagen Holmes, when he pointed a gun at her face during the deadly Aurora, Colo., theater rampage. We often make tactical retreats so that there is no face-to-face confrontation. We pull out so we can hit in a different place or plan an attack on a regime checkpoint." - A rebel named Mohammed from the Eagles of Damascus brigade after Syrian forces recaptured one battle-scarred neighborhood in the capital. "Put a sock in it." - Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, to naysayers after the arrival of the Olympic torch on Friday. .