I found a great deal of relief and excitement watching…

You saw a lot of guys, especially in the early '90s, whose acts were a pitch for a sitcom. A lot of them were…

— Patton Oswalt

Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and…

— Patton Oswalt

I've seen a tremendous shift especially in indie comics. I see all these young women who are out there creating. They're making these great…

— Marjorie M. Liu

Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read comic books…

— James Gunn

Comics are a "young" art form, and there is much confusion as to how to treat them. Images have more immediate impact than words,…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard.…

— Mickey Mantle

My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of…

— Kenneth Cranham

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants…

— Alexis Denisof

Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits…

— Abbi Glines

Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays. My grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would…

— Rosa Parks

My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and…

— M. Night Shyamalan

Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These…

— Tea Obreht

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And,…

— Rudy Giuliani

My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've always, my…

— Michelle Rhee

I was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as much as…

— Rachael Ray