Every accepted public quote

“If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this paus...”

“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”

“Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we en...”

“Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations.”

“I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of inf...”

“Collaboration is not a punchline... I only collaborate with the best in each category.”

“You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rule...”

“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”

“Being endowed with Imagination Human beings can see much beyond their eyes.”

“I don't feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have to be lenient with your convictions.”

“...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we figure out what it is. It's the opposite to living our lives episodically, where...”

“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”

“I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no...”

“I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some reason, there's an idea that only white people are relatable. I don't think it's necessarily rac...”

“If you were a computer and read all the AI articles and extracted out the names that are quoted, I guarantee you that women rarely show up. For every woman who has been quoted about AI techn...”

“My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd sa...”

“Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while al...”

“...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....”

“Six years of uninterrupted happiness had rolled away, since my brother's marriage. The sound of war had been heard, affording objects of comparison.”

“I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins, who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.”

“I don't even sing in front of really close friends. It's embarrassing. I don't really sing when I'm alone, either. I just hum enjoyably.”

“But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.”

“President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.”

“I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.”

“Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.'”

“I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.”

“I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see!”

“My favorite thing about L.A. is the sunny breezes that mimic the mindset of the energy in the people.”

“I don't think that Americans are ungrateful, not at all. But I do think that we are a young country, and we have a lot to learn.”

“With one film after another becoming a hit, nervousness only grows.”

“The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whet...”

“There's a new set of transformative technologies such as machine learning, AI, and virtual reality that will spawn another set of big tech franchises. But in terms of cultural impact, perhap...”

“I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.”

“I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.”

“The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.”

“Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.”

“Use your knowledge and physical strength. You have the opportunity today, start living for Him”

“Divorcing the act of GETTING from the act of OFFERING opens up the door to building stronger relationships, stronger trust and more respect with the people WE serve.”

“I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.”

“I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.”

“I have a cat. When I was younger, I had a guinea pig.”

“And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.”

“Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.”

“He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.”

“We don't need more recycling, we need a completely different system of closed-loop manufacturing, and no matter how many cans I crush, my personal actions at the consumer level are of very l...”

“To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.”

“Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have he...”

“When you are seeing somebody, then obviously it's a commitment. And if you don't want to commit, then don't be in a relationship. Every relationship deserves a certain credibility and respec...”