When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there...
HARVEY PEKAR You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support th...
HARVEY PEKAR I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobio...
HARVEY PEKAR I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons an...
HARVEY PEKAR I don't want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I'd rather ...
HARVEY PEKAR I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And...
HARVEY PEKAR I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was...
HARVEY PEKAR I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I s...
HARVEY PEKAR People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artis...
HARVEY PEKAR I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doin...
HARVEY PEKAR There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitati...
HARVEY PEKAR I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, thes...
HARVEY PEKAR I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
HARVEY PEKAR Don't call me a curmudgeon. Everyone who writes about me calls me a curmudgeon. I don't know why.
HARVEY PEKAR I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significa...
HARVEY PEKAR Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.
HARVEY PEKAR My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?
Part of...
HARVEY PEKAR I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called m...
HARVEY PEKAR I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between...
HARVEY PEKAR Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.
HARVEY PEKAR I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics co...
HARVEY PEKAR I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.
HARVEY PEKAR I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put ...
HARVEY PEKAR We're as interesting and funny as anyone else.
HARVEY PEKAR I guess there's an element of self-loathing there,
HARVEY PEKAR Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause mu...
HARVEY PEKAR People like that can afford some level of rental. We want to empower people to understand they alrea...
BOB PEKAR It should be an alarm for all of us to wake up and do more.
BOB PEKAR It's encouraging, but it still leaves a fair number of children in poverty .... This information is ...
BOB PEKAR I don't think we could ever be pleased with whatever ranking we see unless poverty is eradicated and...
BOB PEKAR Dirty martinis and music - that's the big motto in our family. We get the booze going, and the m...
MATT HARVEY I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and...
SAMANTHA HARVEY As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once ru...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any em...
SAMANTHA HARVEY It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subj...
SAMANTHA HARVEY The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fas...
SAMANTHA HARVEY The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and...
SAMANTHA HARVEY With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
SAMANTHA HARVEY I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's lif...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate i...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own int...
SAMANTHA HARVEY The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as...
SAMANTHA HARVEY I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complet...
SAMANTHA HARVEY When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until t...
SAMANTHA HARVEY We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands i...
SAMANTHA HARVEY We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind...
SAMANTHA HARVEY There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just m...
SAMANTHA HARVEY One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man s...
SAMANTHA HARVEY I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we...
SAMANTHA HARVEY What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching...
SAMANTHA HARVEY My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. T...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would ha...
SAMANTHA HARVEY There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Chris...
STEVE HARVEY Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definit...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not...
LARRY HARVEY We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyon...
LARRY HARVEY It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in th...
LARRY HARVEY Belief is thought at rest.
LARRY HARVEY I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that th...
LARRY HARVEY When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a frie...
LARRY HARVEY Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.
LARRY HARVEY They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religi...
LARRY HARVEY Kleenex would have made a mint today.
LARRY HARVEY Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Com...
LARRY HARVEY I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family th...
HARVEY WEINSTEIN I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't...
GERRY HARVEY In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a ...
HARVEY MACKAY Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at ...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one h...
STEVE HARVEY By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other char...
HARVEY MACKAY Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.
HARVEY MILK You must come out. Come out... to your parents... I know that it is hard and will hurt them, but thi...
HARVEY MILK Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
HARVEY DENT Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must...
HARVEY MILK Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition ...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple,...
HARVEY DIAMOND In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
PAUL HARVEY Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
HARVEY STEIMAN I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.
PAUL HARVEY I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you...
HARVEY PENICK No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
HARVEY MACKAY Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.
PAUL HARVEY There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings...
WILLIAM HARVEY The sale begins when the customer says yes.
HARVEY MACKAY The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward...
HARVEY KEITEL Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.
HARVEY FIERSTEIN Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk ba...
HARVEY COX Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definitio...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.
HARVEY FIRESTONE Like carnivores to carnal pleasuresAs are we to desperate measures.
HARVEY DANGER More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my...
HARVEY MILK [The heart] is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quicken...
WILLIAM HARVEY If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them
HARVEY MACKAY I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my pee...
LARRY HARVEY Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job th...
HARVEY MACKAY They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put...
HARVEY KORMAN Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississipp...
STEVE HARVEY Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company...
HARVEY MACKAY Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about h...
HARVEY KEITEL One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each ...
PAUL HARVEY I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is ...
HARVEY WEINSTEIN You don't need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you s...
HARVEY MACKAY To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mental...
HARVEY MACKAY The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your bus...
HARVEY MACKAY A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he m...
HARVEY CUSHING I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary '...
HARVEY WEINSTEIN If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
HARVEY MILK When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember...
HARVEY MACKAY If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
HARVEY MACKAY I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were...
HARVEY MACKAY My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.
HARVEY MACKAY Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in the...
HARVEY MACKAY To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.
HARVEY MACKAY Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend ...
HARVEY MACKAY Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely leve...
HARVEY MACKAY A student of life considers the world a classroom.
HARVEY MACKAY A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next le...
HARVEY MACKAY All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
WILLIAM HARVEY To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
HARVEY FIERSTEIN You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, ac...
STEVE HARVEY I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we ha...
STEVE HARVEY I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.
HARVEY MACKAY There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles w...
WILLIAM HARVEY The last reunion was a bit of a rushed job, we had to do a gig and documentary.
BRIAN HARVEY My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I ...
STEVE HARVEY When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimis...
HARVEY MACKAY Ever since I made tomorrow my favorite day, I've been uncomfortable looking back.
PAUL HARVEY I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the mov...
HARVEY KEITEL The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks throug...
HARVEY CUSHING The service leaders hire one out of 50 applicants, sometimes one out of 100, but they're very, v...
HARVEY MACKAY Never take an elevator in city hall.
HARVEY MILK The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
HARVEY BALL I think for us - the Weinstein name, the Miramax name - they've both become synonymous with bran...
HARVEY WEINSTEIN Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.
GERRY HARVEY I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... T...
STEVE HARVEY I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!
HARVEY FIERSTEIN There are several parents who feel that it is time their students become part of the mainstream and ...
BARBARA HARVEY For younger students, parents should spend time reading to them and listening to them read, then ask...
BARBARA HARVEY It is our intent to holistically reach the youth of this community.
BARBARA HARVEY It is so sad when we, as residents of Manatee County cannot see we need the facility to address the ...
BARBARA HARVEY I have seen some crazy people do some crazy things on my variety show. I have to stop and ask them a...
STEVE HARVEY Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe th...
HARVEY MACKAY Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to cr...
HARVEY MACKAY None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, ackn...
HARVEY MACKAY I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but w...
STEVE HARVEY Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments duri...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whateve...
HARVEY MACKAY Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel th...
HARVEY MACKAY I had, like, 11 jobs. I've been fired 11 times! 'Cause I'm not cut for that. You know, I...
STEVE HARVEY Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours ...
PAUL HARVEY If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've be...
GERRY HARVEY In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing a...
HARVEY CUSHING I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for...
HARVEY CUSHING A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers...
HARVEY MACKAY It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in gen...
HARVEY MACKAY Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it'...
KEVIN HARVEY By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance o...
HARVEY MACKAY To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been...
STEVE HARVEY I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller qual...
STEVE HARVEY Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.
HARVEY MACKAY Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no wome...
STEVE HARVEY We're supposed to be an entrepreneurial company; we're meant to be expanding and looking for...
GERRY HARVEY Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-...
HARVEY MACKAY I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just ...
STEVE HARVEY Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
HARVEY MACKAY You can't go forward and backwards at the same time.
STEVE HARVEY The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.
STEVE HARVEY Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers wh...
DOUG HARVEY Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.
HARVEY MACKAY Kids go to school; we develop them at school. We develop them later on in the workplace so that we g...
GERRY HARVEY I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like pe...
STEVE HARVEY There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.
GERRY HARVEY A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that...
STEVE HARVEY In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ...
HARVEY MACKAY . . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has be...
WILLIAM HARVEY A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
HARVEY MACKAY For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
HARVEY MACKAY It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
HARVEY MACKAY There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wing...
WILLIAM HARVEY Men can cheat because there are so many women willing to give themselves to a man who doesn’t belo...
STEVE HARVEY As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighti...
PAUL HARVEY Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture an...
HARVEY KEITEL As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the...
HARVEY MACKAY To say any method used in this case is unique such that it is a signature crime by any particular in...
BRUCE HARVEY He's spending all this cash. He certainly didn't make it on a mayor's salary. He has to explain it f...
BRUCE HARVEY You got a lot of smoke, and not a lot of fire. Everybody's out front taking money and at least using...
BRUCE HARVEY They're acting a lot on what people might think about Bill Campbell, but when the rubber meets the r...
BRUCE HARVEY That human bond has to be there. It can't become impersonal. These are people they deal with everyda...
BRUCE HARVEY We hope that if the state decides to bring someone else to trial that they will get some solace from...
BRUCE HARVEY The result of the Ray Lewis case is that the only person to leave this courtroom with a conviction i...
BRUCE HARVEY Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make ...
HARVEY MACKAY Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something,...
HARVEY MACKAY Their two go-to guys took over from there. They both showed why they're all-state players.
BUSTER HARVEY