Every accepted public quote

“Time will not enrich your life experience because it is happening now. Presence is beyond time and space. Life can only be lived now.”

“We ought to disarm Germany completely.”

“Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH: A horrid ?monster has been [somethin...”

“Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.”

“People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.”

“In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.”

“My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the gir...”

“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

“I might be a pretty earthy, crunchy girl, yes. There might be some crystals and Buddhas in my house. I may meditate and eat all green and compost... Yoga is a very regular part of my life.”

“You hear nightmare stories from young filmmakers working in Hollywood, being told what to do.”

“Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.”

“Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live.”

“Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.”

“I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?”

“Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.”

“Though monetary compensation may never add up, teachers can rest assured that they are important.”

“I struggle to reveal my struggle to people who are struggling to believe I struggle in the first place. In fact, my real struggle is with my struggling willpower, which refuses to struggle h...”

“I would say I am one of those people who just love to connect to people doing something I love. Can't lie, love a ballad, so expect big, powerful, emotive stuff from me!”

“Open your refrigerator, your freezer, your kitchen cupboards, and look at the labels on your food. You'll find 'natural flavor' or 'artificial flavor' in just about every list of ingredients...”

“One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not...”

“We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.”

“I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.”

“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the prod...”

“If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.”

“His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.”

“When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any...”

“You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.”

“The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.”

“If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.”

“Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on...”

“It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.”

“This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.”

“Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they...”

“Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.”

“The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your...”

“I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.”

“I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.”

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”

“Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.”

“This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.”

“Eric Ashcroft, a gentle, kind, popular man with a wicked sense of humour, was always modest about his wartime exploits, but eventually, with much prompting from his persistent son, he told m...”

“As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.”

“My obsession is plastic packaging. It makes me sick, all the waste. Everything about it disappoints me.”

“All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.”

“If I give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something great...”

“What we don't realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache. You never see a normal spot, a bag under...”

“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”

“I look back at 1993 or 1994 when I made it to the National Championships, and I was on used skates and handmade or borrowed costumes. But my mom was there every step of the way for me: she w...”