Every accepted public quote

“I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.”

“Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American League's practice of replacing the pitcher with a designated hitte...”

“I mixed hypnosis and magic together to try and create a new area. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.”

“Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.”

“Anti-Semitism is a rotten thing. It's an ignorant, stupid, horrible thing. As is anti-Muslim feeling. They have to be together.”

“Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.”

“I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.”

“These guys that take a shower, grab a cup of coffee, and go straight to the tee? That's not the way to do it. When you warm up, hit 20 to 25 wedges, a few middle irons, and 10 to 15 3-woods...”

“Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.”

“Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.”

“I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would...”

“I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the...”

“Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

“The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.”

“I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these de...”

“There's not a whole lot to do in Athens. When I was 13, I just started entertaining myself by writing songs. I'd sit in my room for 10 hours playing the same song, stacking vocals, trying ou...”

“Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.”

“Control orders put people not convicted of any crime under virtual house arrest based on scant evidence. Billed as a security backstop, they proved unreliable.”

“Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's tacky -self-aggrandizing - and speaks to an existential neediness typi...”

“We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.”

“The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.”

“The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.”

“Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.”

“When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.”

“There's still anti-Semitism everywhere, and unfortunately, what has happened with our people no longer being the underdogs in this region, peoples' perception of Israel has changed dramatica...”

“If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.”

“My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me a work ethic of writing every day and pushing through difficult creati...”

“I think the Angels could use me the most. The Angels don't have a day-to-day first baseman.”

“In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.”

“I think there is this rage on campuses about Donald Trump and - as someone who has written pretty explicitly about my disapproval of Trump - I can sympathize with that.”

“Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.”

“For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a knighthood, even possibly the Garter.”

“Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.”

“If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.”

“I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we've done a pretty decent job so far.”

“Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It's a love note for our people, but it's also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us.”

“I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.”

“I call on all the countries of the world, especially the donor countries, to speed up their contributions so that the Palestinian people may overcome their economic and social problems and p...”

“As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.”

“I never forget my first emotions in football, in Sicily.”

“Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.”

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be sho...”

“A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.”

“There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.”

“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.”

“I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I lost my Darth Vader watch.”

“Sometimes I say to people, 'Do you think you're easy to live with?' People who are single. And the ones who say, 'Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty easy to live with; it's just a question of finding th...”

“I've done everything from stocking shelves at a natural food co-op, to baking bagels at Brueggers and bussing tables. Then I realized that jobs suck, but if you could get up at 6 A.M. and ba...”