Rec'lect Quotes

#1. Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#2. The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the Ping-Pong table in the rec room with crackers and Cheez Whiz, so Percy felt right at home.

Rick Riordan

#3. As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.

Jon Jones

#4. Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.

Gary Shteyngart

#5. Music is our life

SPT

#6. I really bridled when Parks And Rec became popular and woodworking publications wanted me to do stuff with them.

Nick Offerman

#7. I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.

Rebecca Romijn

#8. Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that.

Tom Hanks

#9. I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky.

Kyra Sedgwick

#10. There's nothing I missed out on. I do everything a normal kid does. My parents keep me grounded. I still play sports. I still go to a rec center every day.

Khleo

#11. Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

John F. Kerry

#12. Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the 'Parks and Rec' characters.

Chris Pratt

#13. Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On 'Parks and Rec,' we've got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we don't just effuse to one another and be like, 'Oh, Rob Lowe's really funny,' if he wasn't.

Chris Pratt

#14. I watch so much TV, it's sad. I watch 'Happy Endings', '30 Rock', 'Parks and Rec', 'The Office', 'Eagleheart', 'Children's Hospital'. 'Modern Family' I guess I'm still kinda watching.

Anders Holm

#15. You just pick up a little bit of whatever the ones you think are appropriate, and you try and, you know, combine them. And then you bring in other people that are great for the things that you're not so good at.

Mark Ronson

#16. Like, on the 'Parks And Rec' set, I still feel like I'm a guest star. Being a fan of the show, it's really surreal to be on the set and see that it's not real, and getting to know the actors and they're not their characters.

Adam Scott

#17. At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

Summer Sanders

#18. Why are the people all so unhappy?" he asked Mister Wolf. "They have a stern and demanding God," Wolf replied. "Which God is that?" Garion asked. "Money," Wolf said.

David Eddings

#19. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

James Badge Dale

#20. When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.

Aziz Ansari

#21. You're one of them de Luce girls over from Buckshaw. I'd rec'nize them cold blue eyes anywhere.

Alan Bradley

#22. I hate metaphors. That's why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal.

Ron Swanson

#23. I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

Jerry Stahl

#24. Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.

Bow Wow

#25. If it weren't for the fact that he'd been flat on his back in a full body cast, then recovering, he probably would be glad he missed finishing the school year since it meant he's now enrolled at his version of Hogwarts.

Andrea Cremer

#26. It's going to sound like brown-nosing, but I love 'Parks & Rec.'

Melissa Fumero

#27. People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.

Gerald M. Weinberg

#28. Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest.

Andy Kindler

#29. Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

George R R Martin

#30. Within a year of O'Neilrs speech, Alcoa's profits would hit a rec- ord high.

Charles Duhigg

#31. The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, hilarious friends.

Rob Lowe

#32. If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.

Natasha Leggero

#33. I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#34. Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.

Fred Kavli

#35. The emotional brain existed long before the rational brain.

Deborah Sandella

#36. My dream was to become a Rec League coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home, And help the kids out, And be a coach.

Kevin Durant