One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.
When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.
Novels are a safe way to talk about things.
One of the really amazing things about the Lusitania saga was that, at the time, there existed in the admiralty a super-secret spy entity known as 'Room 40'.
I'm a Sagittarius. We need things done now.
Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.
Things taste less salty when they're cool.
When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage.
I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly endorsed Canadian culture. Yet, they are still bitter and argumentative, as poets elsewhere are, because they have no audience as such, only a sanctioned role in the cultural scheme of things.
I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.
I like things that are sort of comic and humorous rather than satirical.
It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.
Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.
When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.
