Quotes About Appreciation

Don't look at your legs and think: 'They're fat.' Think: 'These things carry me around all day, and I don't have arthritis. Oh, and I've got great ankles.'

Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.

I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series of things that I had for the first time and thought, 'Where has this been all my life?' One was brie. I mean, oh my God! One was my first soft-shell crabs.

There are days where I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I'm so happy I'm living the life I'm living.'

I want people to hear me and say, 'Oh my God, what a voice.'

I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it's free, I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's free - I have to take as much as I can!'

Oh my God. Brian De Palma. I love him.

It definitely feels different to perform to people who know your music. Because people's feedback is not just, 'Oh my God, that was amazing. Who are you?'

There's stuff I look back at now and I'm like, Oh, my God, the dresses that were being sent to me, and I'm front row, and the designers I knew, and going to these glam parties - these are things I took for granted.

It's nice to be able to sit down and have a discussion about something for more than four minutes, and not look at your watch and go, 'Oh my God, I just spent $40,000 of HBO's money.'

I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don't ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.

The three greatest people in my life were white, OK. My high school coach, my high school superintendent and my mentor in Manhasset, Long Island.

If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

What is important is that we stop and realize, 'Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that.' But what is really important, what I'm really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.

I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I appreciate the elliptical nature of it. Sometimes people are more in the mood to be nice to me than others, and that's great.

We had a big fan base in Oklahoma City, and that was nice to know.

Oklahoma has been so great to me.

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Everybody knows that I like Oklahoma City, and I love being here. I love everybody here.

Oklahoma, y'all truly made a big impact on me.

As beautiful as Oklahoma is, it doesn't have big lights and none of that. But that's fine... I'm a low-maintenance, low-key, chill guy.

I appreciate the history and tradition of Notre Dame. I also appreciate the history and tradition of Oklahoma, and I have been part of building that tradition here.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.