Every accepted public quote

“I don't think I got thin. I think I got healthy.”

“In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short te...”

“I'm a positive person who likes to have fun and get the best out of every day.”

“I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.”

“Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.”

“I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force o...”

“It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.”

“Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.”

“I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.”

“Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.”

“McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.”

“I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean...”

“Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk hand-in-hand.”

“It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.”

“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”

“You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause...”

“I definitely respect Kamara's game. He's a different type of player. He can catch the ball out of the backfield. He can run in between the tackles. Pretty much a do-it-all back.”

“Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on television, and in computer games.”

“The right ones will take every opportunity to ask how they may serve you. The wrong ones will take every opportunity to show you how you may serve them.”

“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”

“The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions betw...”

“This struggle of people against their conditions, this is where you find the meaning in life.”

“We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It's an open floor plan. People have these desks wh...”

“I sneaked into an Everton match once. I'm a Liverpool supporter, but Liverpool were away, Liverpool reserves weren't playing, there wasn't even a youth match, so I took my son into an Everto...”

“Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.”

“Everyone is born an artist. What differentiates us are the variations of creativity.”

“Betty White jokes are just not for me.”

“In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.”

“I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, because my backpack has every kind of medicine in it.”

“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.”

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me...”

“What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life,...”

“First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.”

“I was a 2-year-old baby on something, but it's not like I had lines. But I actually had my first lines when I was 4. And then I finished school, and I went to USC for their BFA program in ac...”

“Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.”

“How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?”

“I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.”

“I want to make sure I have a system that allows me to know that the platoon sergeant and platoon commander aren't going to move at the same time when we come back from deployment. That sound...”

“You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.”

“I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I m...”

“Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner...”

“Those damn Moomins. I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.”

“I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.”

“In hockey, sometimes a shift can go for a minute and a half, full out.”

“Faith in our time can seem like signing on the dotted line of a prefab doctrine composed of absurdities.”

“I went to work on Wall Street for about three or four years with an investment bank, got certified: series 3, series 7, and all this stuff.”

“In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin o...”

“Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.”