I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him ...
ERIC SYKES All these old guys, they were exactly the same on stage as off, and they couldn't help being comedia...
ERIC SYKES There's no family allowance on the first child, you know.
ERIC SYKES It's a very sad day. I've always admired him. Everything he did had a very evocative ring, of someth...
ERIC SYKES I had real big boobs, and I just got tired of knocking over stuff. Every time I eat, 'Oh, Lord&#...
WANDA SYKES Our whole objective was to have the FBI come in and lead an investigation. We will know the truth.
ALVIN SYKES The Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act that is before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives has ...
ALVIN SYKES The FBI originally thought he was one of the three.
ALVIN SYKES One of them was convicted just three months ago. In all, 18 were tried. Seven were convicted of Civi...
ALVIN SYKES At our request, we have asked the federal government to create a unit on unsolved Civil Rights murde...
ALVIN SYKES Already around the world, Philadelphia means something different than it did a month ago. You see it...
ALVIN SYKES Joyce Chiles made this a real investigation with real consequences.
ALVIN SYKES I did not know there were people you could go to for help.
ALVIN SYKES If it was good enough for Kennedy, and it was good enough for King, it was good enough for Emmett Ti...
ALVIN SYKES Like it was, wow, this woman has spent the equivalent of my lifetime pursuing this one thing.
ALVIN SYKES If you didn't have that genealogical information, you wouldn't have the first idea about those two b...
BRYAN SYKES We will select volunteers from those two branches,
BRYAN SYKES But generally this is the kind of name that, from experience, has one or very few founders.
BRYAN SYKES If it's a single family with one original founder, then most of them will have the same Y chromosome...
BRYAN SYKES There are several interesting questions such as was there one original 'father' Christmas or were th...
BRYAN SYKES By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ul...
BRYAN SYKES My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on...
WANDA SYKES I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doin...
WANDA SYKES Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
WANDA SYKES If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a...
WANDA SYKES And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
WANDA SYKES I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large g...
WANDA SYKES I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Let...
WANDA SYKES If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come b...
WANDA SYKES Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed ...
WANDA SYKES Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of arc...
BRYAN SYKES Holland-Dozier-Holland were able to package gospel in such a way that it was really camouflaged, ......
CHARLES SYKES I know it sounds like the party line, but I just love doing this show, ... Larry is just an odd man,...
WANDA SYKES Monster-in-Law, I'm not going to say anything bad about that girl. Everybody picks on her. And she d...
WANDA SYKES It's fun coming back home. The crowds have so much love and support for me. They're really smart cro...
WANDA SYKES Of course, my mother would love for me to work clean,
WANDA SYKES Eighty percent of the ladies from our database have attended our tour socials and met with our Russi...
DAN SYKES Even though you feel different and look different when you're pregnant, you're essentially still the...
MELANIE SYKES Even from its beginnings, this business was based on love. We help bridge cultural and language barr...
DAN SYKES I got the job by walking into the director's office, ... I saw this guy behind a desk and said, 'Whe...
WANDA SYKES I'll never forget the first time my family came to see me do stand-up, ... It was an awful bombing. ...
WANDA SYKES We have to get out there and touch the people and let them know that you are thinking about them and...
WANDA SYKES There is a double standard out there. Comedy is a male business; it's not ladylike what we're doing....
WANDA SYKES Louis is so damn talented,
WANDA SYKES It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own com...
WANDA SYKES Holland-Dozier-Holland were able to package gospel in such a way that it was really camouflaged. The...
CHARLES SYKES It pushed the sound up to the edge and caused a little bit of a strain. That was part of the (H-D-H)...
CHARLES SYKES But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep tal...
WANDA SYKES I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he&...
WANDA SYKES Anastasia is a proud member of the American Society of Travel Agents and the Central and Eastern Eur...
DAN SYKES I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a pr...
WANDA SYKES The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't beli...
WANDA SYKES You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fi...
PLUM SYKES If I sing along a little fucking louder to a happy song I'll be alright.
OLI SYKES I'm glad there were no fatal technical flaws, and that they were able to find the money after all. B...
MARK SYKES However, in this city (San Francisco) that prides itself in being so progressive, it feels like we n...
CRYSTAL SYKES It's really unfortunate at a time when we should come together, something as simple as this.
LARRY SYKES It comes down to a point in time where you put aside your differences and thoughts and do what's rig...
LARRY SYKES What makes us different from consulting-type operations is that we are all manufacturing people. The...
LARRY SYKES Hold that thought. This sounds like the kind of conversation I’ll need pants for.” It
SAM SYKES Buy my book.
SAM SYKES The best defense to inquiry was semi-coherent rants and accusations.
SAM SYKES While violence was almost certainly the solution, Lenk knew he needed to apply it selectively.
SAM SYKES We played hard, but we didn't play smart.
JEFF SYKES We replaced seven starters from last year, so we thought at the beginning of the season we might be ...
JEFF SYKES Three-quarters of our offense was on the bench, and those guys just dug in hard and they played from...
JEFF SYKES We don't have anything to do with it.
JEFF SYKES Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
CHARLES J. SYKES The Court's legitimacy arises from the source of its authority - which is, of course, the Consti...
DIANE S. SYKES We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional ...
DIANE S. SYKES Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jo...
CHARLES J. SYKES Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we've stopped enjoying our lives?
LUCY SYKES, JO PIAZZA You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
ERIC HOLDER We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFER Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and ...
ERIC HOFFER The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFER It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to le...
ERIC HOFFER Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...
ERIC HOFFER Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
ERIC HOFFER One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo...
ERIC HOLDER I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ...
ERIC DAVIS I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald'...
ERIC SCHLOSSER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
ERIC SEVAREID If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root ca...
ERIC TOPOL A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-por...
ERIC KANDEL I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins...
ERIC BERNE Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente...
ERIC SCHMIDT When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ...
ERIC HOLDER Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as...
ERIC DANE It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra...
ERIC DAVIS I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ...
ERIC ANDRE If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
ERIC CANTONA I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.
ERIC BRISTOW Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright ci...
ERIC LIU I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Bud...
ERIC RIPERT First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu...
ERIC ANDRE Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've bee...
ERIC LIU I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.
ERIC BRISTOW If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st...
ERIC SHINSEKI With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int...
ERIC SEVAREID You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&...
ERIC STOLTZ The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t...
ERIC HOFFER The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for...
ERIC HOFFER It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ...
ERIC STONESTREET At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc...
ERIC MASKIN If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene...
ERIC RIES All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.
ERIC MCCORMACK Great businessmen are creators.
ERIC CANTONA I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think...
ERIC DICKERSON Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life...
ERIC WINTER There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ...
ERIC RIES If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s...
ERIC MASSA There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
ERIC TOPOL There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ...
ERIC TOPOL As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop...
ERIC ALTERMAN I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
ERIC CLAPTON With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ...
ERIC CHURCH A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ...
ERIC HOFFER The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ...
ERIC HOFFER Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t...
ERIC GELMAN Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ...
ERIC LIU When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe...
ERIC MASKIN It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f...
ERIC HOFFER Mass is resistance to motion.
ERIC PARSLOW One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater tha...
ERIC PARSLOW The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
ERIC HOFFER Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to...
ERIC HOFFER Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
ERIC HOLDER 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

ERIC HOFFER Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.
ERIC PARSLOW Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
ERIC PARSLOW Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
ERIC HOFFER The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER Remembering​ ​is​ ​something​ ​God​ ​asks​ ​us​ ​to​ ​do​ ​over​ �...
ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFER The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their ...
ERIC HOFFER The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as ...
ERIC HOFFER Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in l...
ERIC HOFFER Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se...
ERIC HOFFER Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions ...
ERIC HOFFER The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
ERIC HOFFER As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
ERIC WEINER For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ...
ERIC AMBLER Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo...
ERIC WEINER It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
ERIC BOGOSIAN I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo...
ERIC SPITZNAGEL The chief cause of problems is solutions.
ERIC SEVAREID When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common...
ERIC HOFFER Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring...
ERIC HOFFER Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
ERIC HOFFER Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i...
ERIC HOFFER To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER