He slides into second with a stand up double.

He slides into second with a stand up double.

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.

At the end excitement maintained its hysteria.

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.

Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you're not really teaching them anything.

I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

I love shocking people.

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

Everyone should live to be 92 years old, have an orgasm and drop dead.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.

If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar.

Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.

To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time.

My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.

I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

I truly don't believe in regret.

I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.

I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.

People want to know they matter and they want to be treated as people. Thats the new talent contract.