Every accepted public quote

“To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.”

“It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle de...”

“I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.”

“Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.”

“Imagine yourself as a drop of water. For as long as you can remember, this drop is all that you have experienced yourself to be and all that you thought you were. And then, suddenly, someone...”

“It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.”

“I did all that with my little hatchet.”

“If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank is to fight poverty with passion.' I had it put up there because...”

“I own and operate a ferocious ego.”

“That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.”

“I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.”

“I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of h...”

“Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame i...”

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”

“Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and still not know what you are to each other? With baseball, it's simple. There's no mystery to...”

“I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid...”

“Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.”

“Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?”

“Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)”

“For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I...”

“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”

“When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said...”

“Disgust and shame are inherently hierarchical; they set up ranks and orders of human beings. They are also inherently connected with restrictions on liberty in areas of non-harmful conduct.”

“Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.”

“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and...”

“Quantum physics is quite interesting. All these tiny particles are there as much as they're not there. That to me is very, very interesting. And how our thoughts change the outcome of an exp...”

“Back in my high school years, the Hulk was my favorite Marvel character, and I always enjoy drawing him.”

“Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.”

“Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.”

“Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting New Ageism, and Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' for promoting racism. Gee, where does that le...”

“Time is the truest test of truth. You do the best you can, and let time testify-”

“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”

“What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and fall...”

“Nilai akhir dari proses pendidikan, sejatinya terrekapitulasi dari keberhasilannya menciptakan perubahan pada dirinya dan lingkungan. Itulah fungsi daripada pendidikan yang sesungguhnya.”

“Whether you're a believer or not, a flawed biblical epic is going to be more entertaining than a remake of a Paul Verhoeven movie or some third-rate sci-fi flick.”

“I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don't really like online games. I can't stand people yelling in my ear over a headset. I'd rather just play someone like Dwight Ho...”

“I've already bungee jumped, so I am thinking about diving with sharks. I watched a little snippet of 'Jaws 2,' and I was like, 'Nope! I'll save it for a rainy day.' Unfortunately, I live in...”

“I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.”

“San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.”

“I've taken my time. I've thought about it; I've consulted, and I've decided that we are going to create a new political movement, one that will be neither on the Right or the Left.”

“All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.”

“Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new beginnings.”

“I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small busin...”

“To pray is to seek heavenly blessings.”

“Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.”

“There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.”

“I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine's unity.”

“For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every...”