"I said, as I've said many times before, that dialogue produces miracles," Mr. Arias said at a news conference on the steps of his home.

"No money went into my pocket," he said, on the steps of the federal courthouse just after his release.

"My family is here, and this is where it gets tough," the former fullback said several minutes into his acceptance speech on the front steps of the hall.

"I made a stupid mistake," he said later at a news briefing on the steps of the Peninsula Hotel, "and I just left without it."

Let me say a few words on the next steps.

"It's not the risk of going to prison that is going to stop us from protesting," Mr. Bove said on the steps of the courthouse.

Later Roxanna and Barnabas said goodnight on the steps of her home.

"You can't even understand what they're singing," she said on the steps of her brownstone on Seventh Street yesterday.

"In Japan, students go to school for 11 months of the year," Dr. Green said on the steps of a Brooklyn junior high school.

What you said to me that night on the steps of the college, about not deserving her.