Kornheiser Quotes

#1. He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

Tony Kornheiser

#2. Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

Isaac Hayes

#3. We are neither of us the people we were then. Let us look on the past only as it gives us pleasure, and to the future with confidence and hope.

P.D. James

#4. Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

Tony Kornheiser

#5. Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

Leila Josefowicz

#6. The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.

Tony Kornheiser

#7. Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.

Tony Kornheiser

#8. Yellow is capable of charming God.

Vincent Van Gogh

#9. I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

Tony Kornheiser

#10. I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.

Neil Gaiman

#11. I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

Michael J. Fox

#12. We think Eli is taller and handsomer now that he's won the Super Bowl. Imagine what would've happened if [Jaws] won the Super Bowl.

Tony Kornheiser

#13. That's it! That's the list.

Tony Kornheiser

#14. Someone I talked to who covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60 percent chance that Junior qualified with a car not quite up to code and people looked the other way because there's no points involved [with the pole].

Tony Kornheiser

#15. I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

Vladimir Nabokov

#16. Everyone who ever walked barefoot into his child's room late at night hates Legos.

Tony Kornheiser

#17. Every day, somewhere, a writer is born. She comes into the world with a destiny: to share her words and proclaim a message.

Jeff Goins

#18. If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.

Gertrude Stein

#19. The players need to remember to run with their bodies above their legs.

Tony Kornheiser

#20. The only way to make sense of the world is to accept the fact that it absolutely makes no sense.

Lourd De Veyra