When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that ...
J. B. SMOOVE 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 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 I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.
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 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 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 You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the ...
J. B. SMOOVE 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 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 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 '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 I do not have very much office experience.
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 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 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 My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
J. B. PRITZKER 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy re...
J. B. S. HALDANE To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialis...
J. B. S. HALDANE My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can*...
J. B. S. HALDANE We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far t...
J. B. S. HALDANE I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on alm...
J. B. S. HALDANE Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remember...
J. B. S. HALDANE A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
J. B. S. HALDANE I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good perso...
J. B. S. HALDANE The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.
J. B. S. HALDANE Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we c...
J. B. S. HALDANE Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as ex...
J. B. S. HALDANE If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear t...
J. B. S. HALDANE It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can i...
J. B. S. HALDANE If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically ...
J. B. S. HALDANE I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics ...
J. B. S. HALDANE Human half-truth logic, dates back to Adam and Eve, when he tried to deceive God with a truth, 'we k...
CAESAR J. B. SQUITTI Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the classics.
J. B. S. HALDANE I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING