The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I wa...
BILLY CRYSTAL Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audi...
BILLY CRYSTAL We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids sho...
BILLY CRYSTAL The reason we are together is because she puts lead in my shoes and doesn't let me fly off the earth...
BILLY CRYSTAL Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going...
BILLY CRYSTAL Gentlemen, start your egos.
BILLY CRYSTAL Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the...
BILLY CRYSTAL When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your li...
BILLY CRYSTAL I've seen worse. . . . It just so happens that your friend here is mostly dead. There's a big differ...
BILLY CRYSTAL This guy was so large, he had his own climate.
BILLY CRYSTAL Change is such hard work
BILLY CRYSTAL Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplatin...
BILLY CRYSTAL I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
BILLY CRYSTAL You look marvelous.
BILLY CRYSTAL Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
BILLY CRYSTAL Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threat...
BILLY CRYSTAL I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.
BILLY CRYSTAL My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap da...
BILLY CRYSTAL In the late 1960s, I was working as an usher for the New York stage production of 'You're a ...
BILLY CRYSTAL The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 i...
BILLY CRYSTAL Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dix...
BILLY CRYSTAL Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
BILLY CRYSTAL I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Jus...
BILLY CRYSTAL When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson,...
BILLY CRYSTAL I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. ...
BILLY CRYSTAL Ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. This brash young man who thrilled us, angered us, confuse...
BILLY CRYSTAL The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing ...
BILLY CRYSTAL Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
BILLY CRYSTAL Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespear...
BILLY CRYSTAL Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.
BILLY CRYSTAL I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in ...
BILLY CRYSTAL It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity h...
BILLY CRYSTAL Our professor was Marty Scorsese. Marty was a graduate student, or Mr. Scorsese, which is what I had...
BILLY CRYSTAL One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it beca...
BILLY CRYSTAL My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.
BILLY CRYSTAL That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
BILLY CRYSTAL Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the t...
BILLY CRYSTAL What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly startin...
BILLY CRYSTAL I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do.
BILLY CRYSTAL Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any
BILLY CRYSTAL A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight ...
BILLY CRYSTAL I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
BILLY CRYSTAL I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42....
BILLY CRYSTAL Bill don't go, it's OK, we love you.
BILLY CRYSTAL I have performed my one-man show '700 Sundays' over 400 times now. There were only two times...
BILLY CRYSTAL Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires givi...
BILLY CRYSTAL Since I got into the movies, 'Running Scared,' that did $40 million. 'Princess Bride,...
BILLY CRYSTAL To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, wi...
BILLY CRYSTAL I went to my first game May 30, 1956, and Mantle was in the beginnings of his Triple Crown season. A...
BILLY CRYSTAL People thought this would be an award show -- but we couldn't get anybody to open up the envelopes. ...
BILLY CRYSTAL I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap.
BILLY CRYSTAL I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.
BILLY CRYSTAL Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly...
BILLY CRYSTAL In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It'...
BILLY CRYSTAL My Aunt Sheila was terrifying! She would put a napkin in her mouth and say, 'You've got some...
BILLY CRYSTAL When I was about 21 and just about to get out of college at NYU, Vietnam was raging, and I was a fru...
BILLY CRYSTAL I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I w...
BILLY CRYSTAL Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last
BILLY CRYSTAL President Clinton knew the course and goes, 'Here's what you want to do here.' By the fo...
BILLY CRYSTAL Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's yo...
BILLY CRYSTAL It is great seeing the fruits of your labor. The joy I have in watching my daughters with their kids...
BILLY CRYSTAL I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.
BILLY CRYSTAL I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I...
BILLY CRYSTAL Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York...
BILLY CRYSTAL My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grand...
BILLY CRYSTAL I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.
BILLY CRYSTAL Change is such hard work.
BILLY CRYSTAL I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
BILLY CRYSTAL At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
BILLY CRYSTAL To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.
BILLY CRYSTAL I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and th...
BILLY CRYSTAL The more you can understand the beauty of nature, the more you can understand the nature of nature
CRYSTAL Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ...
DAVID CRYSTAL I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high fo...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual comm...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the ...
DAVID CRYSTAL He said I'm the winning lottery ticket, like he's never meant anything more.
CRYSTAL WOODS Unknowingly, he prepared me to survive the rest of my days with the way he shielded himself from emo...
CRYSTAL WOODS Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened a...
CRYSTAL WOODS Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are t...
DAVID CRYSTAL Life's a battlefield, and we remain loyal to those who fight for us; those who'd die for us.
CRYSTAL WOODS When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never ...
CRYSTAL WOODS I want to take all our best moments, put them in a jar, and take them out like cookies and savor eac...
CRYSTAL WOODS I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your ...
CRYSTAL WOODS Part of the desire to see each other succeed is to stop putting a price on success.
CRYSTAL EVANS Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like ha...
CRYSTAL EASTMAN Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not...
DAVID CRYSTAL People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between ac...
DAVID CRYSTAL Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of ...
DAVID CRYSTAL Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is a...
DAVID CRYSTAL Over the last 50 years or so, we have seen an increasing cultural diversification across the country...
DAVID CRYSTAL I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not ta...
CRYSTAL WATERS Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independe...
CRYSTAL EASTMAN I wish I could line up naked the men I've slept with and just gloat for a hot minute. Beautiful crea...
CRYSTAL WOODS English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Roman...
DAVID CRYSTAL I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. Tha...
CRYSTAL REED One thing I've learned about myself is that I can accomplish anything I want to. The caveat is that ...
CRYSTAL WOODS I don't think anyone's sexuality needs to be a public issue other than to give others the co...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with ...
CRYSTAL EASTMAN I went into the 'Idol' audition with no expectations; that's just the kind of person I a...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put f...
DAVID CRYSTAL The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody'...
CRYSTAL CHAPPELL Chemically, I'm as off as I can be. But you fix me.
CRYSTAL WOODS I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary.
CRYSTAL WOODS Time flies, whether you’re wasting it or not.
CRYSTAL WOODS At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even w...
CRYSTAL WOODS You can say now, 'I dissed him' - to diss, I dissed him - or, 'Stop dissing her'. An...
DAVID CRYSTAL The secret to scooping ice cream is all about the scooper. You have to dip it in water before and af...
CRYSTAL REED A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.
CRYSTAL WOODS Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.
CRYSTAL WOODS I had a dream about you last night. I was alone on a dark night and you came to me as a firefly. I k...
CRYSTAL WOODS At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.
DAVID CRYSTAL The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet ...
DAVID CRYSTAL Love is like a balloon.. when you push your relationship with someone forward it is like blowing up ...
CRYSTAL SOUTHERLAND Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.
DAVID CRYSTAL When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, '...
DAVID CRYSTAL In the moment where my mind, body and soul are assaulted I know that I'll never be the same ever aga...
CRYSTAL SPEARS Name's Braxxon baby and I wanna touch an angel"- Braxxon
CRYSTAL SPEARS It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its comm...
DAVID CRYSTAL The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with t...
CRYSTAL EASTMAN We need mentors who are extremely dependable and consistent. These children, they've had many disapp...
CRYSTAL DAVIS Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural i...
DAVID CRYSTAL A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.
DAVID CRYSTAL We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existenc...
DAVID CRYSTAL Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so...
DAVID CRYSTAL Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.
CRYSTAL GAYLE Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried...
DAVID CRYSTAL We needed to get the bats going again. We were a little timid.
CRYSTAL BLAISDELL I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answ...
CRYSTAL REED A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
CRYSTAL EASTMAN They're known sometimes as a guardian angel to their fellow marines and to watch over and protect th...
CRYSTAL MERILLAT I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good thing...
CRYSTAL CHAPPELL Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the...
DAVID CRYSTAL The prop guys came in yelling, 'There's mercury on the set! It can get into your lungs, and it'll ki...
CRYSTAL HUNT How do you spell the name of the Irish prime minister? It sounds like 'teeshuck', but we spe...
DAVID CRYSTAL The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not hav...
DAVID CRYSTAL A lot of people have said we're too young, but that just means we're fearless. And that's something ...
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE So many cultures have been forced to turn away from their pasts. We even fly flags of forgotten king...
CRYSTAL BREWE At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at...
DAVID CRYSTAL As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
DAVID CRYSTAL It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.
DAVID CRYSTAL We have some good images of the suspect. We just haven't been able to ID who he is.
CRYSTAL CANDY I could have done a lot more if I had the money. We really did a minimal campaign compared to some o...
CRYSTAL KENNEDY It seems like a minimal time commitment, but it makes a big difference to the children.
CRYSTAL DAVIS She challenges me, and at the same time, I challenge her, ... She's making me better. She's one of t...
CRYSTAL SMITH This device was powerful enough that they felt the thud a mile or two away.
CRYSTAL CANDY It'd be great to play Ohio State again. They beat us last year and knocked us out.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE I knew it was between us and Ohio State once I saw Tennessee was in, but it just didn't go our way.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE I was the first to say we got the monkey off our backs. Everybody was really happy about that win.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE They will have the revenge factor going for them so we know we're going to have to bring our A game ...
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE It's a new game so we're not looking at what happened in the past.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE We got here really fast.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE It wasn't one of my best games.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE I consider those kind of like misses. I wasn't really paying attention.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE I think we came out really well. We were intense, played great defense and I think we did a good job...
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE You're either in it for the long haul or you're not.
CRYSTAL GAYLE Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.
CRYSTAL WOODS I have a lot of love and respect for Melissa Etheridge. I love Joe Cocker, Ray LaMontagne, Feist.
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
DAVID CRYSTAL The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally un...
DAVID CRYSTAL Something special for him but also to show the community that this was a marine who was proud to ser...
CRYSTAL MERILLAT Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows th...
DAVID CRYSTAL Everybody is OK, but since it is a deputy who is involved and we have shots fired, we have to do a f...
CRYSTAL CANDY Even if most days can’t be half as good as today, it’s days like this that make it all worth it.
CRYSTAL WOODS When we drove up to the cemetery that night, it was just like he had been killed all over again.
CRYSTAL MERILLAT Certainly this is a public affairs school, and he's a former president, but I think he really excite...
CRYSTAL JONES She tore the ACL in January, and was back in the team camp in June. That was an inspiration to the o...
CRYSTAL WILLIAMS He used various techniques, including having other people distract the employees. He'd then go in an...
CRYSTAL CANDY When she woke up happy, I said it worked he's like I guess it did, we couldn't believe it.
CRYSTAL JASKULA Right now, I don't know how we gonna get through it. I mean, we're together, we trying to console on...
CRYSTAL JARVIS My mom lived off the canal of a river, ... It looked like a bomb went off. I never thought it was go...
CRYSTAL DAVIS We had no employees. He taught me how to drive a forklift.
CRYSTAL GOMEZ It was them getting the ball to Davenport. We couldn't stop her.
CRYSTAL SMITH They're becoming vicious. But it's not because they're hungry and they want to eat people. They're s...
CRYSTAL SMITH She challenges me and at the same time I challenge her, ... She's making me better she's actually on...
CRYSTAL SMITH We're just all sisters,
CRYSTAL SMITH I was nervous about the change in the enrollment standards.
CRYSTAL SMITH I want to let women know what they can expect, and that it is okay to feel confused, exhausted and o...
CRYSTAL SMITH Where's our little baby who was so happy to be awake?
CRYSTAL JASKULA I finally gave in today. Admitting that I haven't been able to do it alone, that's defeat right? But...
CRYSTAL WOODS They probably didn't want to put the generator outside for fear it would be stolen.
CRYSTAL HOLMES I hope this event helps me with my problems of going nuts about the things I want.
CRYSTAL SMITH There should be some good teams up there — Woodrow Wilson and Spring Valley come to mind right off...
CRYSTAL HACKNEY I've noticed if you're a pug owner, you're pug-crazy.
CRYSTAL KEY I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe that's because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.
CRYSTAL WOODS Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and e...
CRYSTAL WOODS I'm such a strong human being. I amaze myself even. If only you knew what I've been up against, you'...
CRYSTAL WOODS At this point, it appears to be a random act, and while nothing has been ruled out, it does not appe...
CRYSTAL CANDY He fully confessed to all these thefts and said it was because he had a crack cocaine habit. In fact...
CRYSTAL CANDY I tried to enroll her in tutoring last year, and it was quite expensive. She had a lot of problems i...
CRYSTAL SMITH Some of the kids right now are out there on the street now. Some of them are in the penitentiary, so...
CRYSTAL MOORE There really is a lack of information about this phase in a woman's life,
CRYSTAL SMITH Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.
CRYSTAL CHAPPELL Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to...
CRYSTAL WATERS Do you know what i hate? I hate people who hides behind GOD, it doesn't matter how much u pray or fa...
CRYSTAL DEONARINE It went down pretty quick. The metal was so weak. As they were putting it out, it crumbled.
CRYSTAL HALL Everything was gone or ruined, ... There were pine tree limbs going through the top of the kitchen i...
CRYSTAL DAVIS