Every accepted public quote

“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone w...”

“He had never felt so ill-at-ease on a date in his life. Then again, going on a date with your best friend was a delicate matter. He had to proceed with the utmost care and caution.”

“Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, st...”

“People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”

“The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.”

“It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.”

“I've burnt my boats, and there they are - smouldering in public view.”

“I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.”

“I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off...”

“Greenland is not for sale.”

“There's only so much planning you can do when it comes to pregnancies, y'know.”

“I could have recorded music and hoarded it all because it's not good enough for me. Also, with dropping music, fans get what they want, and you get to learn from them and whatever you put ou...”

“You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.”

“For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves - like, wide scarves with fringe - and because I had seen the Engli...”

“I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.”

“Nuanced debate can't stand up to a guy who's calling women pigs and retweeting white supremacists.”

“A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver ty...”

“X is for X-mas Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket, then all your Christmases can come at once!”

“Sometimes there aren't enough hours, but I have a really strong team, and I surround myself with good people, and they help me out a lot. I wouldn't be here without them.”

“As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.”

“I used to be able to pitch them on the basis of the zombie action, and I could hide the message inside that. Now, you can't. The moment you mention the word 'zombie,' it's got to be, 'Hey, B...”

“It was the camaraderie and the friendships, too, that really drew me to Queensbridge.”

“The lovers of the world are the ones who matter. Forget the rest. Jesus was a lover. He doesn't hate anyone.”

“I like the PC market. It's a big market, but it's a very volatile market as well.”

“I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.”

“I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.”

“If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the...”

“I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh.”

“'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever' was inspired by a combination of my grandson, my son, and myself - all those times when each of us has decided that we're just not...”

“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.”

“Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analys...”

“Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.”

“We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.”

“Good knowledge is the grace of kindness.”

“Raise A Fear-Free You! The 'You' That Has Grown Past Fear of the Unknown, Fear of Failure, Fear of Rejection & Fear of Fear Itself!”

“My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire.”

“He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....”

“You aren't alive if you aren't in need.”

“It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished...”

“A truly successful person may not need inspiration, but he becomes an inspiration to others by his courageous actions.”

“Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the mus...”

“Some people believe, the destiny of humans is written by God, and I know for a fact, that human destiny is written by none but the humans.”

“The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynami...”

“The beginning is half of every action.”

“I'll tell you a secret about being happy. Sometimes you just have to pretend at it until it become real.”

“I think that the artists who don't get involved in preaching messages probably are happier - but you see, I have to live with Nina, and that is very difficult.”

“When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them i...”

“I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.”