What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any. We take a breath anywhere.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite.

That's kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You're speaking to everyone, but you don't also want to speak for everyone.

What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, 'Taste!' and...

I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

My base will show up in earthquakes.

I like my buddies to come out to shows on weekends, but they hardly ever get to any.

About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other...

It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading.

Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film.

I was born in revolution.

It's the playoffs. Everything kind of amps up a little bit.

I have such love for the point of obsession towards people and their minds, and I'm constantly trying to find beauty in things, and I think people are such unique and complex creatures.

There's no joy without pain and there's no sunshine without rain. I didn't make that rhyme on purpose, I promise!

We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a...

Fox is great at making mountains out of molehills. Hannity is the best at it.

I believe everything happens for a reason.

I don't think I even understand all that Tiger's done for the game of golf.

I would love, love, love to watch Conor McGregor fight Floyd Mayweather.

Guys who feel like it makes you a man to make babies, they're completely misguided. It makes you a man to be a father. And I'm not moralising about marriage or anything. I understand that people split...

My biggest frustration with the Heisman is it's become the MVP of the national champion, or a team going to the National Championship game. That's what it's turned into. If you're not undefeated,...

When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was...

I just think pressure is all what you put on yourself.

I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.

I have never been one for musicians. I know girls are supposed to go crazy for frontmen who close their eyes when they sing and nod their heads when the drums kick in, but I'm like Shania Twain with...

The critic is a genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize...

Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that...

I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I'm an actor, so that adds more to the...