Quotes About Insight

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

The secret of basketball is that it's not about basketball.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you.

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

I used to be afraid of the dark. But sometimes, it's the best place to be. Sometimes you can see things in the dark that you can't see in the light.

We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That's when you know the most, you've seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

I'm good at reading people. If I wasn't an actor, I would be a psychologist.

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

I do reflect on it sometimes, going, 'Wow, if I knew what I knew now I would be such a better server.'

One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what it is. We're lucky if we recognize something as being new when it first appears. Usually I think we don't have that privilege. It's usually after the fact that we suddenly turn around and say, 'Wow, this thing is amazing.'

And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

Wow. I am really pretentious.

I saw 'Wild,' and I thought, 'Wow, this is a lot of things, but one of the things is it's a therapist's dream and a climate-change denier's nightmare.'

I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.

I read some books, and I thought, 'This is better than sliced bread!' and a month later, I couldn't remember thinking about it. And I've read others that were kind of a slog, and I've put them down and come back six months later thinking, 'Wow, this is great.' So, you know, things change all the time.

Sometimes you watch yourself, and you think, 'Oh, wow.'