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

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 used to think that driving sleepless ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.

I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.

I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.

I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

If I have to go through Fury after my Povetkin fight - and I never look past my next fight; I am not that foolish - to get those belts, I would love to fight him next.

Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people.

Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities to pay for thy enjoyments and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine tenths of thy earnings.

I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.

The way I define what I do is, basically, I do whatever I want.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.