“My parents were less than thrilled when they got the news. I can understand that: a life in the arts is chancy in at least a hundred ways, ninety of them financial. My mother said,… Read More
“Space belongs to all of us. There is science in dance and art in science.”— Mae Jemison The first Black woman to go to space, Mae Jemison has sought out pursuits in the sciences —… Read More
“I’ve found I have started to use small-time mob-boss tactics in my house. I figure out things that they like, and then threaten to hurt those things.”— Jerry Seinfeld In November 2006, Jerry Seinfeld was… Read More
“Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. You can usually tell as they are coming into the park whether it is going to be a happy, responsive crowd… Read More
“Although it may be true to say that an American is a creature of four wheels, and to point out that American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s-license age than at voting… Read More
“I had friends, for sure. Lots of them. But I still really enjoyed, mostly, being alone and going home and getting under the dining room table after school. And there was this long cloth over… Read More
“Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.”— Ian Maclaren This quote has a bit of history since the Scottish writer Ian Maclaren contributed it to the nonconformist religious publication British Weekly in… Read More
“The bad times I can handle. It’s the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going to drop?”— Erma Bombeck This feels like the credo of a pessimist, or maybe a… Read More
“I think I learned years ago that you don’t get songs that have that long stride and that pivot-hinge ability if it’s too much diary entry.”— Leslie Feist Feist made this observation about her songwriting… Read More
“My thought is always, ‘It’s only downhill from here.’ That’s how I’ve always operated, ever since I began Family Guy. I had the crippling fear that I used up all the funny last week. That crippling… Read More
“The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from… Read More
“I am much fonder of receiving letters, than writing them: but I believe this is no very uncommon case.”– Mary Lamb Known most for retelling (with her brother, Charles) the plays of William Shakespeare into… Read More
“I’m just thinking about making people laugh. I hate when guys talk about ‘I’m edgy.’ The worst comics think that way. It’s not edgy if you’re talking about it! You just live it.”— Chris Rock… Read More
“I don’t think people listen with their ears. I think they listen with their soul.”— Herb Alpert I heard Herb Alpert — the legendary trumpet player, producer and career-maker — say these words in the… Read More
“It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year’s cars. They fished in their change purses for nickels while the superstars flashed credit cards. Today, values have… Read More