With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to

be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
Will Self

Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
J. R. Moehringer

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.
Meat Loaf

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.
Bruce Oldfield

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
Jean Shepherd

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.
Norman Wisdom

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
Emily Mortimer

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.
Shepard Smith

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.
John Ratzenberger