"I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality."

“It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.”

“The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.”

Source : Mike Rowe's Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, www.discovery.com. May 11, 2011.

“My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.”

Source : "Command Sgt. Major Tim Walz’s New Mission: Getting Disability Benefits to Wounded Soldiers". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

“Mathematics can have its problems, but it's actually hasn't seen a lot of the problems as some of the other sciences and so much of it in what people are doing is completely useless. Nobody kind of in really cares very much. You don't really have kind of right and left and people in ideology coming in because there isn't any. It just doesn't actually connect up to the kinds of things that people ideologically worry about. So most of mathematics just doesn't tell you anything one way or another about global warming or about healthcare or about any number of things that you might care about.”

“The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.”

“I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour - for the horse was soon tackled - was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.”

“And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.”

“You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.”