Every accepted public quote

“Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.”

“Do not say goodbye, I need you by my side, I know in life that I can tell you what I feel, but at the end of the day you will go, whatever it is, without saying goodbye”

“I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's abil...”

“A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.”

“I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.”

“Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.”

“Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.”

“The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.”

“If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.”

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

“The Maker is a miracle worker.”

“Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.”

“'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.”

“Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security.”

“A lot of mythology surrounds British inventor Geoffrey Pyke. He supposedly made people come to his bedside to see his designs because getting up and getting dressed took too long.”

“I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I c...”

“Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.”

“Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things...”

“I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing t...”

“Latinos are not monochromatic. You know, they trace their ancestry back to South America, to Central America, to Mexico, like in my family, and the Caribbean. And it's - we're a very diverse...”

“Walk into a Chase branch and we can give you so much quicker, better and faster. Like Wal-Mart.”

“Chips will continue to shrink, of course. We, along with other semiconductor companies, are continuing to push toward the next goal of 10 nm, but going beyond 10 nm will require the developm...”

“It feels like every day or two, people on Twitter and the Internet are outraged about something.”

“The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.”

“The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessar...”

“In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.”

“The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development.”

“Stalking is a cruel and incessant crime with often terrifying consequences. Victims can be tormented for years, left too scared to leave their homes and unnerved by the slightest unexpected...”

“I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teet...”

“We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.”

“It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.”

“Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.”

“We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.”

“I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.”

“There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world.”

“It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.”

“People talk about Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but you need an Iniesta to win the big titles.”

“Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis...”

“We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.”

“Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.”

“Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitute...”

“As a party, Democrats must focus on the pocketbook issues that our constituents care about every day when they wake up to go to work, drop off their kids at school, and tuck them into bed at...”

“What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applyin...”

“I'm a very spiritual person, and I believe in God and all that kind of stuff. So my perfect type of guy would be spiritually grounded, extremely respectful and funny because I love to laugh.”

“Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.”

“Hunger is the best pickle.”

“Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.”

“I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians...”