Every accepted public quote

“Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.”

“Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.”

“Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.”

“As an avid hunter and outdoorsman, I am blessed to call the bank of the great Yellowstone River outside Glendive my home.”

“Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.”

“My father Lloyd Bridges worked on a TV show called 'Sea Hunt.' He impressed upon me as a child the importance of taking care of the ocean and working together to do our part to reduce human...”

“My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independe...”

“I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.”

“I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out...”

“A round or a square product was easily made, except for an oval one, at that time when watch industry mainly relied on hand-made or semi-automatic equipments. It is like the printing and coa...”

“My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.”

“Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.”

“I was an exchange student for a summer, and most of that summer was in Ukraine. I used to say 'the Ukraine' until I was there, and one of the Ukrainian college students I got to be good frie...”

“The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.”

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.”

“The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.”

“God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.”

“Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.”

“I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.”

“Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.”

“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of...”

“Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private citizens alike.”

“I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.”

“I support collective bargaining everywhere.”

“When the gods are angry with a man, they give him what he asks for.”

“I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.”

“NXT is huge, being able to be on TV internationally is a big deal, as it means you don't have to work so hard to get noticed as opposed to FCW, Deep South Wrestling and OVW, which were all t...”

“Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.”

“Follow your honest convictions and be strong.”

“Failure has its successes.”

“When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, 'How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?' That was three months be...”

“All of my stuff is raw, it's emotive, it's real.”

“As a quarterback, obviously, you're going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you're not then you're not doing your job.”

“I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.”

“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.”

“Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes: for the nature of the waters also ceaseth not from miraculous properties.”

“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”

“As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.”

“Sam Bradford was one of the most humble and grounded players I've ever been around; he got it. But I even told him, what makes you think those fans in the stands are wearing No.14 for you? W...”

“We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertai...”

“I love the Sixties with Julie Christie and Jane Birkin - those natural English beauties. That's the look that is most me, when I wore the tight-to-the knee dresses. I don't think I bleached...”

“Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commerciali...”

“We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.”

“There's no better inside player than Nancy Pelosi, and I don't have any animosity towards her.”

“I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller”

“I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.”

“The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'”

“It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But...”