Every accepted public quote

“The sheer number of legendary narratives and historically verifiable incidents invites us to revise assumptions about the origins of biological and chemical warfare and its moral and technol...”

“I suppose I've always done my share of crying, especially when there's no other way to contain my feelings. I know that men ain't supposed to cry, but I think that's wrong. Crying's always b...”

“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.”

“My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful t...”

“I expect to pitch well and pitch efficiently.”

“My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?”

“Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usef...”

“Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.”

“We have been harnessing every aspect of what makes Avenged truly unrelenting and building off of that.”

“I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.”

“A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the su...”

“What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to go forward, to be more exaggerated than in Europe. Many times the rough ideas...”

“Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader...”

“Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the house...”

“In the human society, it is difficult to find all angels flapping there wings and all saints singing halleluya.”

“To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.”

“Time goes through all times.”

“It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem.”

“When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph...”

“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”

“I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunicati...”

“I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.”

“My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.”

“It's very different working with all adults. I have a swear jar so that, if they have a potty mouth, I make them pay. That's what it's like being on set with adults.”

“Boxing saved my life. There were a lot of gangs and I was hanging around with the wrong people.”

“I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.”

“The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after d...”

“The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. It overpowers whoever touches it. By merely doodling a Toothbrush mustache on a poster, yo...”

“At the end of the day, nobody drops a catch on purpose, and even the fielder gets frustrated. As a bowler, when a few catches are dropped, yeah, that is frustrating. But I think, ultimately,...”

“I do 'sissy with a heart of gold' really well.”

“You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.”

“Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to ta...”

“I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not reall...”

“If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.”

“It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the...”

“Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the...”

“I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.”

“We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.”

“Some people come in your life and make you believe that your life is incomplete without them. Then they leave, creating a void in your heart that may fill back with time but will never be co...”

“We are the greatest country in the world but we are facing serious issues.”

“Pedagogy is political”

“At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third,...”

“The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.”

“Black Lives Matter organizers hold the same values of America's age-old enemies, who have always fought the ideals of our Constitution and our nation. That they have now taken on as their co...”

“Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least whil...”

“A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.”

“Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the m...”

“There's nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.”