Every accepted public quote

“Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.”

“It's been a crazy ride, truly a Cinderella story.”

“Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.”

“It was better to be alone miserable. It was better to drown.”

“Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.”

“You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.”

“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”

“Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.”

“The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”

“Feeling 'ugly' or 'unattractive' seeps into your life like poison, and it affects everything. Feeling worthless does the same. We internalise these limitations, and it takes an internal revo...”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”

“Despite having known him for almost a year, there were a lot of things I still didn't know about Zachary Goode. Like how soap and shampoo could smell so much better on him than anyone else....”

“Certain characteristics must exist for a democracy to survive. First, laws must be constructed in fairness and equality; and second, obedience of law by the citizens, and those who judge and...”

“I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in...”

“I don't need anyone creatively to tell me how I'm supposed to be. Only I know the answer to that. Only I know what I would say. That's always been my outlook. I haven't really worried about...”

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

“I'm not clumsy, I'm accident-prone!”

“Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?”

“Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.”

“You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determin...”

“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.”

“Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.”

“I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being amazed that only a few minutes had passe...”

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”

“[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.”

“Happy people know that all the imperfections of the world are due to the conditioning of our minds which seeks perfection in the world according to the moral and statuary laws. Unless you fr...”

“There's no formula.”

“I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You ca...”

“I had to deal with it so often, I found ways of making a point against racism. When I played against Real Zaragoza, they chanted like monkeys and threw peanuts on the pitch. So when I scored...”

“Haters need to see you go down to lift themselves up.”

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentles...”

“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how...”

“Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.”

“To business that we love we rise betime, And go to it with delight.”

“Some of my favorite harmonics are located between frets. There are two really cool ones between the 2nd and 3rd frets that I use a lot.”

“I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.”

“I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.”

“The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some...”

“With a chaste heart With pure eyes I celebrate your beauty Holding the leash of blood So that it might leap out and trace your outline Where you lie down in my Ode As in a land of forests or...”

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.”

“Don't worry about the negative people may say about you. Learn from it and move on.”

“As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probab...”

“The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone. H e l l i s e m p t y a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s a r e h e r e I kiss my way across the words. Kissing away the devils. Kissing away the pain...”

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

“Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.”

“Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.”