“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
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by… Read More
“We’re curious people. Humans are curious. We want to understand things. And for me personally, there’s no greater thing to understand than the universe itself and the parts that make it up.”— Anna O’Grady Today’s… Read More
“Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.”— George Sand The French writer George Sand — born Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, she adopted a pen name and a style for dressing to put her as an… Read More
“If you want to avoid a trip to the ER, I’d say get your advice from real doctors instead of a 25-year-old woman on TikTok with three first names.” — Gina Ippolito This will be… Read More
“I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”— Arthur Hays Sulzberger (attributing it to others) Sulzberger was publisher of the New York Times during some consequential years (1935… Read More
“When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.”— Florence Griffith Joyner The American sprinter still known to… Read More
“It was a pudding, you know? It really was a pudding. It was a pudding of new ideas, and we were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were… Read More
“I can’t even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it’s the truth. I love my work but… Read More
“Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says that she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.”— Barbara Walters The legendary host, interviewer and anchor Barbara Walters made this comment… Read More