Losing a parent is a hard thing… I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up. – Wayne Swan
I’ve been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it’s been a great journey. – Tyler Perry
A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka’s non-profit startup. We’re doing a lot of great work teaching government how to apply technology and changing the culture of government. – Tim O’Reilly
So much of the destruction on Earth has been wrought by men. Women are the ones who give life and try to pick up the pieces… What a great gender they are. – William T. Vollmann
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin’s awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held. – W. Averell Harriman
There’s so many great Western films. Let’s see, ‘Red River,’ any of those Henry Fonda movies are fantastic. Any of those John Ford movies are fantastic. I love all the Eastwood ‘Man With No Name’ movies, John Wayne, ‘True Grit.’ – Timothy Olyphant
The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World. – Theodor Mommsen
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along – and I must say I had a good time using them. – Tom Wolfe
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. – Stella Adler
Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future. – Thomas Kinkade
It is surely no coincidence that Napoleon’s two greatest heroes were Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. In certain respects, he would outdo them both. – Saul David
I didn’t end up going bankrupt… I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it’s not about finances. No matter what, it’s about keeping it real. – Vanilla Ice
I’ve always wanted to go to Australia. I hear it’s a great place. I mean, kangaroos are pretty awesome. That’s an up factor. – Zachary Gordon
What came out of ‘Ocean’s Twelve’ is actually great because you do one ‘Ocean’s Twelve,’ and you’re more known around the world than if you did 20 years in the French cinema industry. – Vincent Cassel
I really like iZotope Trash, which is a great plug-in for distortion, as is Ohmicide, which I love. It’s an absolutely crazy multiband distortion, compression, EQ and filter, which pretty much lets you do anything. – Skrillex
I was always a big fan of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner’s ‘2000-Year-Old Man’ sketch. I think it’s one of the biggest influences on the podcast, definitely. You’d never say Carl Reiner was the funniest dude on there, because he’s just teeing it up, but he knows what questions to ask to lead to great improv. – Scott Aukerman
I always feel great. I get to come to work every day and see the build from the night before, and every day we do more stuff. – Steven Sinofsky
One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world. – Theodore Zeldin
Cash – in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits – is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money. – Suze Orman
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon. – Will Self
If you play the same club every week of every month, it’s kind of boring. It’s great that you can play one night in Brazil and one night in Japan, one night in Europe, and see the world. It’s amazing what you see if you travel around the world. – Tiesto
When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it’s almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don’t know if that’s fair, but that’s the way it is. – Warren Moon
The Spirit Awards are great too, they’ll say anything because they’re not televised. Another great drinking night. – William H. Macy
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I’ve had a great life. – Tim Conway
I don’t want to sound hoity-toity, but people told me I should watch ‘Cheers’ because it’s very funny. So I watched it, and I just went, ‘This is the great show of the universe?’ To me, acting is making characters believable, not just doing jokes. – Teri Garr