Every accepted public quote

“I choose optimism. I hope to be a catalyst not only by providing financial resources but also by fostering a sense of possibility: encouraging top experts to collaborate across disciplines,...”

“Fear not!”

“At HSN, the experience we create are a significant point of differentiation.”

“Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.”

“Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the Unite...”

“Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unse...”

“I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.”

“If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.”

“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.”

“I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment amon...”

“I saw myself as Joan of Arc.”

“I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.”

“Whenever I told women - friends or acquaintances - that I had to go to divorce court, they'd invariably, without skipping a beat, ask, 'What are you going to wear?' It was like instant femal...”

“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”

“When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.”

“We are human beings, at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.”

“I still get recognized for 'Labyrinth' by little girls in the weirdest places. I can't believe they still recognize me from that movie. It's on TV all the time, and I guess I pretty much loo...”

“People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.”

“It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay...”

“The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.”

“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been able to contemplate it fixedly might have led to something; and found...”

“North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.”

“When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then y...”

“If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.”

“For anyone in the news business, just the name 'Cronkite' conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rathe...”

“I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for... my memories aged nought to ten... are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence a...”

“'Ravi' means 'sun.' It's a Sanskrit original word. And 'Shankar' is another name of Shiva, one of the holy trinity god that we worship.”

“Not all villains are people.”

“In difficult situations, when hope seems feeble, the boldest plans are safest.”

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”

“I was the straight-A student but sort of a little bit of debating my parents all the time, trying to find when they weren't logically correct.”

“Think Apple, think the FBI. We are living 'Atlas Shrugged.' Why is it so important? Because I would hate for the country to have that rhetorical question: Where is John Galt, who is John Gal...”

“Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.”

“In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pi...”

“I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.”

“A fever is an expression of inner rage.”

“The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.”

“Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.”

“One think that you notice about anyone that gets up on stage is that they don't really have a lot of self-awareness. It's kind of a trait that performers don't have because you just kinda ju...”

“I see myself as a perennial expatriate because, frankly, I don't think I fit comfortably in any conventional form of filmmaking, and I feel at the same time, depending on the project, I fit...”

“It's always been a battle for me between personal goals and wanting to be able to share the success I've had with my family. And I guess as I've gotten older, I've kind of realized, you know...”

“So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one p...”

“I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

“If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence.”

“Approximating involves making a series of educated guesses systematically by partitioning the problem into manageable chunks, identifying assumptions, and then using your general knowledge o...”

“You risk failure no matter what you do, so why not do what you love?”

“It occurred to me that cats were being held back a little bit. I thought, 'I'll give the cat human thoughts and feelings but not be apologetic for it. That would be very catlike.'”

“What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.”