Every accepted public quote

“those gray clouds were always blocking out all his horizons, but in the midst of all the gloominess one day, all of a sudden, her sunrays broke through to him, her hopeful light glowed, she...”

“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”

“I grew up, from ages 8 to 18, watching reruns of 'Star Trek' with my dad and my mom when they got home from work.”

“The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbo...”

“We were always just a hardcore band that came out and said what we believed in, but we also talked about the streets and the stuff that we were into and the struggles and everything we were...”

“What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate comm...”

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a hum...”

“I take a lot of naps.”

“Once you've published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the evidence of how few you've sold is there. I think a lot of writers my age have this strange exp...”

“After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in a...”

“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not...”

“People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.”

“Good works are not the cause of our salvation; good works are the evidence of our salvation. Faith in Christ always results in good works. Obedience to God is the mark of true saving faith.”

“One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.”

“After the cancer-free diagnosis, I thought I'd go off and do the things I never did in my teens and twenties. I realised putting things off in life can be dangerous because suddenly you can...”

“Jesus remains the most influential person in history, one who has inspired untold followers for millennia.”

“I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I t...”

“I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the b...”

“Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy Englis...”

“In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.”

“The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.”

“The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired...”

“I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!”

“Evolutionary psychology offers a parsimonious framework for understanding which domains are likely to yield sex differences and, if so, in which direction.”

“I made a prediction when I was 11 that I would be world champion by the time I was 21, and I did it.”

“The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.”

“The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.”

“By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awar...”

“Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math...”

“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”

“Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure...”

“In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.”

“There are a lot of hours and a lot of sacrifices you have to make to achieve your dreams as a tennis player.”

“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”

“I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.”

“I'm a very nervous, shy person.”

“For me, that was a defining moment in my career, being at Chelsea, going through what has made me become a man in terms of my career. Even playing on the right wing helped my right foot, mak...”

“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”

“I'm still learning and trying to become a better actor. I still feel insecurity.”

“Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.”

“Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.”

“I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over.”

“Friends are folks who excuse you when you have made a fool of yourself.”

“Make sure that you are both the bee and the honey to your own honeycomb.”

“Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.”

“Talk is cheap, but when you go out there and prove it - you're the first one to show up for practice, and you're the last to leave - that's how you lead by example.”

“I am proud to be the first Hindu American to have been elected to Congress and now the first Hindu American to run for president.”

“It was amazing for me to play a character opposite Benedict Cumberbatch - he's someone who I've looked up to for years - and the idea that I would work with him and then become friends with...”