Every accepted public quote

“The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.”

“I want to do theatre. I love theatre.”

“My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.”

“I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. H...”

“We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus - we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products.”

“If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.”

“I've learned lots, obviously - the first thing being never to forget to be grateful. The second is not to bear grudges, because in football, luck does not exist.”

“I think isolationism is a mistake, no matter what party you see it in. We have to remember that there are two threats to our freedom: there's a threat that comes from the federal government,...”

“Emily swore and he was impressed; he'd never thought to string cocksuckingsonofabitch together in one sentence. He couldn't help himself; the snort of laughter escaped before he could hold i...”

“I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?”

“I never pictured L.A. as a hub for amazing food, which I learned quite quickly is sheer naivete. The restaurants here are insane.”

“But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.”

“Even if I hadn't been cast as Doctor Who, my acting would probably have been influenced by William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and all of the other guys. Because t...”

“To live is to be vulnerable. A thin membrane of a soap bubble separates one from impenetrable hell. Ice on the road. The unlucky division of an aging cell. A child picks up a pill from the f...”

“The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while...”

“If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'”

“I wasn't a fighting kid or a causing-trouble kid. I was just one of those cheeky, crazy kids running around.”

“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”

“An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his...”

“I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.”

“I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.”

“To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.”

“Running on the pledge to end two wars, President Obama has the country entangled in three: Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and that doesn't include the American's foray into Libya.”

“Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable, and that's how I expect to coach this basketball team. I am truly excited about this next phas...”

“Women in Hollywood have no male allies. There are some who pretend to be on our side, but yeah, not really. They may say the right thing because, after all, they're liberals, and that's a pu...”

“I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.”

“I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.”

“Nothing, but a dream have I and so very precious it is to me.”

“The median startup is a business that's capitalized with about $25,000. The financing of that business comes from the entrepreneur's savings. The business is a retail or personal service bus...”

“While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.”

“Don't just look, look into a good book”

“'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.”

“When I became a film-maker, all my favourite films, they weren't comedies.”

“Air Max is from when we were running the streets. It was comfortable to wear in London, whether you were going out to a club or kicking a ball in the streets. Those kinds of things stick in...”

“Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.”

“I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.”

“I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.”

“Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew,...”

“She once told me that she stalks me day and night She has me in her feelings and in her sight... Her heart keeps telling me things in the night that she is afraid to tell me in daylight... M...”

“When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.”

“You can put your foot on the path to exactly what you want this second. When you open that book or go online today, you are carving out a direct link to your perfect world.”

“Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.”

“I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.”

“Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?”

“While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consu...”

“Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly...”

“I told somebody once, 'You don't want the Herschel that plays football... babysitting your child. When I am competing, I am a totally different person.'”

“Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.”