Every accepted public quote

“The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.”

“I've got a lot of military kids who are not in on-base child care, and they should be. So it's things like that I'm going to change, either from a funding perspective or a policy perspective...”

“I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best tricks. It's common, it's in our nature as animals, like the birds of paradise who've got the b...”

“I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.”

“One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges.”

“I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It's been a part of my life for 40 years.”

“Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.”

“Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.”

“For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event.”

“The best diet for overall health, and specifically for heart, brain, and cancer risk reduction, is a diet that's aggressively low in carbohydrates with an abundance of healthful fat, and thi...”

“Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.”

“The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.”

“Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.”

“The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone...”

“Of a truth, there is an inward, formless, inarticulate, almost unconscious, prayer, the very breath of love, whereby the soul is knit fast to the God whom it has tracked, amidst the tangled...”

“Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.”

“My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.”

“It sounds so boring - and my brothers tease, 'Oh poor you, pulling pretend pints all day' - but it's very, very long hours, and you're knackered when you get home.”

“The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.”

“Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'”

“I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.”

“Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.”

“We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking...”

“George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.”

“There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.”

“I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.”

“I went to a special public school that was much more focused on academics and learning. My two best teachers were in accounting and calculus, so I fell in love with that, which made me want...”

“But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.”

“If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.”

“The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that g...”

“I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece.”

“One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.”

“There's much to be said for the circumstances of our experience, Will. The most simple and mundane things can take on deep and memorable dimensions depending on where we are, or with whom, o...”

“I think tax reform is the single most important thing we can do in this country to unleash economic energy. It's going to unleash growth.”

“It's not good if owners of sports teams are talking to sports journalists, bypassing the manager. That goes in the wrong direction wherever it happens. Therefore, I'll refrain from doing thi...”

“You are the reason for my everything.”

“The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.”

“In 1998, I set up and directed a research group at the Nanotechnology Institute newly created in the Research Center of Karlsruhe. This allowed to offer to former post-doctoral coworkers the...”

“The Sea Shepherd crew is doing what governments should be doing, but refuse to do themselves, because of the threats of trade retaliation from Japan.”

“Why is it that E.U. players are allowed to move country once they turn 16... but non-Europeans can only do so at 18? Why aren't we campaigning for a level playing field, where our best 16 ye...”

“Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.”

“So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.”

“she: Before we got married, you told me you were well-off. he: I was, and I didn't know it.”

“I don't see the point of grumpy people.”

“Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need...”

“I didn't binge when I was pregnant.”

“No such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and hence more or less informative.”

“The Second Law: Performance is bounded, but success is unbounded.”