Every accepted public quote

“The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.”

“The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.”

“It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives...”

“'Translations Through Speakers' was literally, I'm translating very spottily what my aspirations are.”

“I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.”

“I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot of water. Have a wheatgrass shot. Drink some green juice. Eat as healthy as I can...”

“Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as the image of my father, whose life was spent like this, thinking of death, to the exclusion of other sensual matters, so in the end that life was e...”

“I haven't read the 'Twilight' books, though I suppose, in general, I thought it might be fun to deflate all of the notions of vampire sexiness, secret societies, the idea that anyone could l...”

“God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland o...”

“I just don't want to be known as the face for cancer. It is one part of my life. Yes, it was a major part because it changed me a lot, but that is not all my life.”

“'Shantaram' is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories.”

“He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.”

“The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and...”

“The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.”

“In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.”

“One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics...”

“Too many of the career politicians, the established politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle, are representing their party more than the people. And no matter what the media says...”

“Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.”

“Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.”

“The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the U.S. dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable le...”

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.”

“The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.”

“The history of the Zionist enterprise is well-known: surrounded and outnumbered by hostile neighbours, the nascent Israel was forced to defend itself against invasion and certain destruction...”

“I will always remember the way you spill your smile all over me like the rain.”

“I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.”

“It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.”

“I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.”

“Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.”

“when a man has little time, he must take care to maintain his calm. We must act as if we had eternity before us.”

“One cannot govern with 'buts'.”

“She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.”

“True worth is doing each day some little good, not dreaming of great things to do by and by.”

“Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.”

“Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”

“'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.”

“Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.”

“A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.”

“Can you tell me what's more unconstitutional than taking away from the people of America their Fifth Amendment rights, their Fourteenth Amendment rights, and the right to equal protection un...”

“You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the...”

“It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.”

“I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.”

“The United States, working closely with the United Kingdom and others, established the liberal world order in the wake of World War II. The goal was to ensure that the conditions that had le...”

“My mother was my pillar of strength.”

“I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.”

“What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a syst...”

“Too often, we say that the Left is wrong but well-intentioned. Some are. But most simply want government to control other people's lives, and they believe in Stalinistic methods to achieve t...”

“I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them...”

“With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. produces at least a quarter of the world's genomic data...”