Every accepted public quote

“I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks...”

“I think people admire us for dedicating our lives to be professional athletes. But we need more people to come and watch club games; we need to encourage girls to play football from an early...”

“When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.”

“As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'”

“Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's...”

“There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.”

“It is a good thing to live long but it is much more important to make a difference in life by living a life of significance.”

“When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job.”

“Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.”

“I can't do coffee, but I can do Dr. Pepper.”

“Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz a...”

“There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room...”

“If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that...”

“It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.”

“If you're making music for the U.S. Latin fan, it's important that you sing in Spanish. Even going too bilingual can backfire.”

“To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.”

“My favorite Gucci tape/record is 'Sun Valley.'”

“The doctors, whether based in Brussels or Paris, draw the same conclusions and write the same prescriptions.”

“I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm no...”

“I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this crazy world right now.”

“As I tell all our folks, the only reason we exist - make no mistake - is our clients.”

“Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.”

“A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”

“I'm self-deprecating because I'm British, and that's what we're supposed to be. I'm sure if I was American, I'd tell you how great I was.”

“Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that; He knows best what is good for us.”

“Marry me he said voice full of emotion. Be my soul mate my friend and my lover as long as we both live. Make babies with me that have curly hair and big brown eyes. Grow old with me and we'l...”

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.”

“There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it i...”

“When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.”

“I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray? And is the teacher going to be Catholic or Mormon or Episcopalian or...”

“That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.”

“Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I fo...”

“I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I did not know it. I did not know why, f...”

“The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little...”

“Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.”

“The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart an...”

“Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die"; black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee."”

“I have a really beautiful mother. She is close to 60, and to this day doesn't wear a speck of make up or dye her hair, and everyone who meets her is completely dazzled by her. She seriously...”

“The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”

“There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.”

“Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.”

“I think it is important not to scream from the rooftops to make yourself heard, I want my work to do the talking for me.”

“I had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn't notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.”

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”

“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”

“To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football.”

“When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.”

“These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.”