Every accepted public quote

“Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumpe...”

“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”

“If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.”

“For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.”

“Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional.”

“Marriage can be tricky and challenging at times.”

“The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.”

“I grew up listening to bands like the Cure, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance - these are the bands that I actually grew up with, and I always had these things in my taste, too. An...”

“Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.”

“In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.”

“I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obv...”

“Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.”

“Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.”

“Imagine as if the sole purpose of life is for imagination. Act as if the purpose of life is to realize those imaginations.”

“I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.”

“When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.”

“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.”

“The art of songwriting is just stumbling your way to something really special, and you don't know what you're going to write until you are writing it. There is no formula. And, sometimes, yo...”

“Maybe at the end of my figure skating career, I'll be able to have just the one game I always dreamed of having. I've still got the skill, I think. I'd have to work on my stick-handling skil...”

“Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.”

“What I want is a sort of new political realignment on libertarian/authoritarian lines, and I want a new consensus to emerge of disaffected liberals, classical liberals, dissident minorities...”

“Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my f...”

“I moved to Switzerland when I was 8, and during our breaks, we'd go to snowboard, and he'd take me to the mountains; we'd take a train. It was kind of crazy, you know. When I think about it,...”

“I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whate...”

“The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful...”

“This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.”

“I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.”

“I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.”

“The lucky person passes for a genius.”

“Generally I try to be as healthy as possible, but it's hard to be on set because anything and everything is available to you. I'm healthy half the time, and half the time I'm like, 'Sure let...”

“Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.”

“No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.”

“I'm not an ageist, and I'm not looking for a man in a certain restrictive age range, however I've found over the years that people younger than me tend to be immature. The problem with this...”

“The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea was an opportunity to push forward the science of High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD).”

“I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!”

“People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.”

“At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as there would be no American music without black folks, there would be very...”

“When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything...”

“The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the 'present.”

“A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.”

“We each have within ourselves the ability to shape our own destinies. That much we understand. But, more important, each of us has an equal ability to shape the destiny of the universe. Ah,...”

“Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because...”

“I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?'...”

“There was a period in my life where most of my musical career was spent in a band that was very aggressive, and there was sort of a wall of volume all the time.”

“I need an exotic star but not the universe.”

“Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.”

“How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.”

“We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.”