You don’t say

“I’m just going to say … perhaps I’m a little sensitive.”

– Sedgwick County Commission Chairman Jim Howell, who recently was portrayed in an Eagle cartoon as a dictator, which prompted him to say during a Wednesday commission talk about a new law enforcement training center that “I’m not a dictator, once again.”

“And because I like sweets.”

– Cassandra Bryan of Cassandra Bryan Design on why she used a drawing of 90 cupcakes to put 90 years of life into perspective during her talk at the Wichita Chamber’s Small Business Awards

“Right up to the point I realized I have only about 32 and a half cupcakes left.”

– Chamber president and CEO Gary Plummer on how much he enjoyed Bryan’s talk

“It’s not expresso, so get that our of your vocabulary.”

– Reverie Coffee Roasters owner Andrew Gough (who also corrected pronunciation his name to “Goff”) at 1 Million Cups

This story was originally published May 11, 2016 at 4:01 PM.