I feel like I've influenced in the sense that if you want to do it, do it. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. But don't rely on what people are saying you can do or saying what you can't do.

Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.

I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.

They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots.

I thought you had forgotten me.”“I have spent my life remembering you.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'