“To be the Grand Marshal of the most recognized Halloween parade in the...” — Elvis Duran Quote

“To be the Grand Marshal of the most recognized Halloween parade in the world is so much fun. People plan for months and months to design their costumes, and it is amazing. It is a true competition and amazing to watch everyone.”

“One of our rules for the show, I guess the filter we try to pass everything through, is it's a safe place for women to be. It's not a show for women, because we're basically 50/50 men/women in our audience, but it's a safe place where women win. Women never lose on our show. I think that's very important. It's very unusual.”

“Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”

“I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.”

“Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.”