Mo Rocca famous quotes

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
-- Mo Rocca

#Teamwork #Sports #Character

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
-- Mo Rocca

#Father #Tree #March

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.
-- Mo Rocca

#Taken #Tennis #Balls

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.
-- Mo Rocca

#Christmas #Goodness #Stockings

Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.
-- Mo Rocca

#Song #Rain #Laughing

It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.
-- Mo Rocca

#Trust #Men #Interesting

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.
-- Mo Rocca

#Sweaters #Homemade

I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it.
-- Mo Rocca

#Coffee #Luxury #Feelings

I was way too hyperactive to study for long. I would freak out, then crash, then be too tired to read or write. I really should have had less sugar.
-- Mo Rocca

#Tired #Writing #Long

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?
-- Mo Rocca

#Book #Ipods #Media

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.
-- Mo Rocca

#Risk #Jocks #Different

Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.
-- Mo Rocca

#Yesterday #Today #Looks

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.
-- Mo Rocca

#Simple #Blue #Dysfunction

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.
-- Mo Rocca

#Football #Team #Years

I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.
-- Mo Rocca

#Cooks #Stills

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.
-- Mo Rocca

#School #High School #Jocks

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.
-- Mo Rocca

#Book #Coffee #Stories

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.
-- Mo Rocca

#Mean #Appreciate #Genius

As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.' Van Meter's greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It's like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don't make sound bites like they used to!
-- Mo Rocca

#Book #Writing #Past

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.
-- Mo Rocca

#Useless

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.
-- Mo Rocca

#Writing #Thinking #People

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.
-- Mo Rocca

#Thinking #Voting #Target

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.
-- Mo Rocca

#Grandmother #Years #Meals

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.
-- Mo Rocca

#Self #Special #Important

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.
-- Mo Rocca

#Father #Writing #Hard Work

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.
-- Mo Rocca

#Christmas #Stars #Shopping

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
-- Mo Rocca

#Issues #Conflict #Sensitive

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.
-- Mo Rocca

#Hate #Agreement #Agree

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.
-- Mo Rocca

#Hypocrisy #Comedy

One could say, that #‎ Masons were raised right.
-- Mo Rocca

#Masons #Raised

Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive.
-- Mo Rocca

#Mind #Done #Littles

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.
-- Mo Rocca

#Imagination #Caves #Dinosaurs

I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day.
-- Mo Rocca

#Dream #Valentine #Black History

Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.
-- Mo Rocca

#Morning #Tvs #Parks

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.
-- Mo Rocca

#Party #Army #Office