William Shakespeare Quotes

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

I want to constantly be surprising people with different roles.

Big band music, to me, it really has three key elements. First is the lyrics are really sweet, and they're just really family-friendly. The second thing is the music is jazz music, so the music is complicated enough to hold your attention for 5 or 6 million plays. That makes the songs interesting. The last part is the fact that it's danceable.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.