Every accepted public quote

“We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.”

“Anyone who's tuned in to the House of Commons TV coverage knows the benches are often empty. I like that. I'm a big fan of political transparency. It's good for us to know which debates the...”

“One theory has it that Bd was moved around the globe with shipments of African clawed frogs, which were used in the nineteen-fifties and sixties in pregnancy tests. (Female African clawed fr...”

“When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behi...”

“Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt.”

“The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised.”

“I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.”

“I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.”

“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”

“Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theol...”

“Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon,about being a couch potato,stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never...”

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the str...”

“I do not see myself doing daily TV soaps!”

“Go, and do thou likewise.”

“In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have made lives for themselves and their families in th...”

“My favorite thing to do is just sit outside on the stoop and talk with all my neighbors. I can go out with curlers in my hair, and nobody blinks twice. It's just sad when people want to take...”

“I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always f...”

“Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.”

“If you look at the history of technology gadget makers, hardware makers, it's littered with the corpses of Palm and RIM and companies like that.”

“I first started doing hidden-camera segments on 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.' He was the coolest guy in the world to work for because he understands the creative process, and he had tota...”

“Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.”

“Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.”

“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”

“A great mistake is committed when you stop learning from the day next to the day when you learnt from your biggest failure.”

“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”

“I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them.”

“I can't change the preconceived notions a reader brings to a work, but I can do my best to be aware of, address, and subvert tropes and expectations that readers may have as best I can and h...”

“My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.”

“The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by...”

“When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five m...”

“It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.”

“My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.”

“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”

“Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.”

“One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.”

“When I met Christophe Waltz, I was so shy! I was like, 'Oh, hi! Um, I'm Stephanie!' He's one of my favorite actors.”

“For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winter's night, there's nothing quite like a gl...”

“We know how to stop Ebola: by isolating and treating patients, tracing and monitoring their contacts, and breaking the chains of transmission.”

“Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confirmed I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution an...”

“Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.”

“Republican-led reforms would help Americans purchase their own coverage through the use of tax credits and expanded health savings accounts so that they can get a plan that works for them, n...”

“Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.”

“I started in 1989. I was the booker, the promoter, the headliner. I wore all the hats.”

“Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day your first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live.”

“I love Obama to talk about Chrysler. It's the cheapest bloody advertising I can get.”

“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.”

“More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.”

“Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite o...”