'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the ai...
B. J. NOVAK I'm a believer in trusting the director.
B. J. NOVAK Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage...
B. J. NOVAK There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them...
B. J. NOVAK The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or pe...
B. J. NOVAK I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found st...
B. J. NOVAK Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in ...
B. J. NOVAK Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
B. J. NOVAK There's no doubt that there's a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, bu...
J. B. PRITZKER The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
J. B. PRITZKER Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nat...
J. B. PRITZKER I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
J. B. PRITZKER When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
J. B. PRITZKER I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
J. B. PRITZKER It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise......
J. B. PRITZKER I am a lifelong Democrat.
J. B. PRITZKER The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a...
J. B. PRITZKER Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to ...
J. B. PRITZKER In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.
J. B. PRITZKER None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law scho...
J. B. PRITZKER Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but wi...
J. B. PRITZKER Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to...
J. B. PRITZKER ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
J. B. PRITZKER You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don&...
J. B. PRITZKER The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
J. B. PRITZKER By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so the...
J. B. PRITZKER Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the ...
J. B. PRITZKER I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resource...
J. B. PRITZKER In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best t...
J. B. PRITZKER Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to stan...
J. B. PRITZKER Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dolla...
J. B. PRITZKER Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we fa...
J. B. PRITZKER Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J. B. PRIESTLEY A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. PRIESTLEY The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to w...
J. B. PRIESTLEY We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. PRIESTLEY If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and des...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk maki...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. PRIESTLEY Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has d...
J. B. PRIESTLEY To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is...
J. B. PRIESTLEY I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell'...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J. B. PRIESTLEY Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues a...
J. B. PRIESTLEY There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age,...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how...
J. B. PRIESTLEY I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
J. B. PRIESTLEY She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
J. B. PRIESTLEY The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
J. B. PRIESTLEY To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
J. B. PRIESTLEY One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk pu...
J. B. MORTON Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
J. B. MORTON That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my ...
B. J. DANIELS During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thoug...
B. J. DANIELS I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a g...
B. J. DANIELS When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that ...
J. B. SMOOVE Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cravin...
J. B. YEATS Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
J. B. YEATS The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers wi...
J. B. COLBERT If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
J. B. PHILLIPS The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers ...
J. B. COLBERT In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as e...
J. B. PRIESTLEY We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
J. B. PRIESTLEY The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a w...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread befo...
J. B. PRIESTLEY I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps...
J. B. PRIESTLEY To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite w...
J. B. SMOOVE When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
J. B. SMOOVE My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
J. B. PRITZKER I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fi...
J. B. SMOOVE If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he doe...
J. B. SMOOVE By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowin...
J. B. PRITZKER There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age-...
J. B. PRIESTLY Trump is an anathema to America's democracy and values.
J. B. PRITZKER I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.
J. B. SMOOVE Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cravin...
J. B. YEATS Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. ...
J. B. YEATS Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cra...
J. B. YEATS Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk maki...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Those who think God did this almost incredible ...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 It is easy to criticise ...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute ...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Jesus, like all other religious leaders, taug...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 It should be noted, at...
J. B. PHILLIPS A man can not be "friends with" God on any other terms than complete obedience to Him, and that incl...
J. B. PHILLIPS We may with complete detachment study and form a judgement upon a religion, but we cannot maintain o...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle The defenders of the Jargon and phrases of the Church's traditi...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258 There are doubtless many reasons for the degener...
J. B. PHILLIPS I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian ...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 If our hopes, whatever we...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of All Saints What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not...
J. B. PHILLIPS So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who died a t...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Our thoughtful observer who is outside th...
J. B. PHILLIPS God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they ...
J. B. PHILLIPS The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hid...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Andrew the Apostle I would very earnestly ask you to check your conception of Christ, th...
J. B. PHILLIPS Maundy Thursday There is joy and strength, of course, in this holy food and drink, but it is also...
J. B. PHILLIPS One of Paul's most important teachings... is the doctrine of what we call "justification by faith". ...
J. B. PHILLIPS Suppose Christianity is not a religion but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and, through H...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 The preacher and the writer ma...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 It is a singularl...
J. B. PHILLIPS From the crude cry which we have so often heard during the war years: "If there is a God, why doesn'...
J. B. PHILLIPS Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remem...
J. B. PHILLIPS I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
J. B. SMOOVE I'm on my version of the protein diet, but there ain't no protein in it. It's a Krispy K...
J. B. SMOOVE Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J. B. PRIESTLEY Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk ma...
J. B. PRIESTLEY The cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man
J. B. BOSSUET I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I&...
J. B. SMOOVE If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits...
J. B. PRIESTLEY The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of wor...
J. B. PRIESTLEY But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 [The Christian] refus...
J. B. PHILLIPS If New Testament Christianity is to reappear today with its power and joy and courage, men must reca...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 To me the...
J. B. PHILLIPS The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be ai...
J. B. PHILLIPS I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels doe...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Much of today's...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres...
J. B. PHILLIPS What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my witness to the...
J. B. PHILLIPS Pentecost Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there i...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 Most Christians are affected far more than they know by...
J. B. PHILLIPS It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the ...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 God in His providence ha...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 Following...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 In his enthusiasm, ...
J. B. PHILLIPS If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go t...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minut...
J. B. SMOOVE I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.
J. B. SMOOVE A lot of critics have picked themselves to be Michelle's self-appointed guardians. We look at the po...
B. J. WIE She is a very happy girl today.
B. J. WIE We've handled her press, her P.R., and been her travel agent. At some time, she will be on her own. ...
B. J. WIE She grew up playing against boys in Hawaii, so it's very natural to her. She's used to playing with ...
B. J. WIE You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the ...
J. B. SMOOVE Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seem...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovin...
J. B. PRIESTLEY A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school...
J. B. PRIESTLEY There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
J. B. PRIESTLEY Un défaut qui empêche les hommes d'agir, c'est de ne pas sentir de quoi ils sont capables.
J. B. BOSSUET The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
J. B. PRIESTLEY I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and se...
J. B. SMOOVE I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps...
J. B. PRIESTLEY It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty
J. B. BOSSUET I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor...
J. B. SMOOVE When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used t...
J. B. SMOOVE I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the ...
J. B. SMOOVE What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
J. B. SMOOVE I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.
J. B. SMOOVE Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building a...
J. B. PRITZKER We plan, we toil, we suffer in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Rad...
J. B. PRIESTLEY If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western ...
MICHAEL NOVAK The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.
DAVID NOVAK It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'g...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The ...
MICHAEL NOVAK I opened up a bit and explained that I have a type I'm drawn to naturally, but that I've found that ...
B.J. NOVAK For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe ...
KIM NOVAK The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues th...
KIM NOVAK My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to thing...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in...
ROBERT NOVAK Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.
DAVID NOVAK I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but i...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kad...
DAVID NOVAK We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on an...
MICHAEL NOVAK I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC ...the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of somethin...
B.J. NOVAK You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of every...
B.J. NOVAK It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents ...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose co...
DAVID NOVAK Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own crea...
DAVID NOVAK Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on t...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, ...
DAVID NOVAK Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.
BOB NOVAK I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and ...
BOB NOVAK I don't think we've ever printed anything that really did any damage to someone.
BOB NOVAK I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say whe...
BOB NOVAK In Coral Gables to cover the first Bush-Kerry debate, I had stupidly slipped on the water on the bat...
BOB NOVAK Nobody knew what to expect with these new banks coming in.
BOB NOVAK where his friend and colleague -- Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman -- controls...
BOB NOVAK I'm not one of the real good guys. They try to make things nicer. That's not my deal.
BOB NOVAK was the runner-up to Roberts in the first selection process, but the word in legal circles is that s...
BOB NOVAK Neither George W. Bush nor John Kerry, as campaigners, wants to risk advocating cut-and-run in Iraq....
BOB NOVAK In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The def...
MICHAEL NOVAK The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants runni...
ROBERT NOVAK And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all ther...
KIM NOVAK To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
MICHAEL NOVAK Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
RALPH NOVAK Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC in wearing a suit, with a vest!
ROBERT NOVAK Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigil...
MICHAEL NOVAK The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a ...
DAVID NOVAK Two senior administration officials told me his wife suggested sending Wilson to Niger to investigat...
ROBERT NOVAK For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I go...
KIM NOVAK She can do anything she wants in her house, ... But it is a gilded cage.
DAVID NOVAK