Every accepted public quote

“I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where t...”

“If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good...”

“When Barack Obama arrived in Washington, many in the media welcomed him with optimism as a historic figure focused on progressive change. But their overwhelmingly favorable treatment of him...”

“My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter Niro the jazz pianist. I loved international music: Irish music, Mexica...”

“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”

“The straps that suspend a man's trousers from his shoulders - known in the U.S. as 'suspenders' and in Britain as 'braces' - are always correct with a summer suit made of seersucker, linen,...”

“We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.”

“Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.”

“I think it's always better to be in an F1 car because, in general, the car behaves itself.”

“A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of t...”

“Unlike other enduring characters such as 'Sherlock Holmes' or 'Tarzan,' being the 'Doctor' allows you a certain freedom that is both very demanding and very thrilling. It allows you to make...”

“Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.”

“I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.”

“India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the wo...”

“Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.”

“I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.”

“In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.”

“It's hard to change someone's ideas when they might not even really consciously know that they're being racist, or have racist ideas, just because ballet has been this way for hundreds of ye...”

“For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.”

“I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is...”

“I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.”

“To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.”

“My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending...”

“The main concept of 'Dark Souls III' is the first flame and its successors; the world has been in this cycle of reigniting the flame since the first game, but now it seems to be disappearing...”

“It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl ta...”

“Destroy such shining altars that spread bigotry - demolish such glorious churches and temples that proclaim divine supremacy - burn such glistening crucifixes, scriptures and idols that are...”

“When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.”

“As a member of Congress, I am part of a large group of elected officials who remain clear-eyed about the threat emanating from Tehran.”

“Well, people can get advice almost anywhere, but they can't find a companion almost anywhere. And far more than being an advice-giver or somebody who just plays sappy love songs, I really am...”

“On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.”

“Tom McMillen was a three-term congressman from Maryland. He is the tallest member of Congress. Period. He's 6'11''.”

“Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presen...”

“You only have so much time in a day.”

“I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes and $25 for room and board, I had enough money for a pack of cigarettes and a bowl of lobst...”

“Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so...”

“What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!”

“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.”

“We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, As you a...”

“I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a system. I stuck my Xbox in there. I had to go for it.”

“One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.”

“Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.”

“O Allah! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your ev...”

“I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be...”

“The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.”

“We at the NRA embrace and hold dear what makes us uniquely American. Family, responsibility, patriotism, mutual respect, honesty, civic duty.”

“True love is when you love someone with your eyes closed. Anything else is lust!!!”

“From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was an...”

“Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.”