Every accepted public quote

“The world is increasing in wickedness.”

“Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not.”

“Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.”

“Any guy in his right mind would die to play Batman.”

“The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.”

“In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car a...”

“I think it goes back to whether or not race and class - that is, race and poverty - is not becoming even more of a constraint. Because with the failing public schools, I worry that the way t...”

“No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to wor...”

“I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.”

“Because Led Zeppelin weren't having to worry about doing singles, each time we went in to record, it was a body of work for an album. So you could get the shift and the movement forwards as...”

“Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our...”

“Let faith be the fire that warms your heart.”

“We heard about people who went backstage at dog shows with scissors and cut parts of a poodle's hair off to sabotage the dog.”

“I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.”

“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.”

“If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the...”

“We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficien...”

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”

“If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.”

“We don't expect Google as a first party service to provide all the answers. Part of the reason a platform is successful is because there are very very important things from other companies a...”

“Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be a challenge.”

“World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, p...”

“If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.”

“When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this...”

“Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.”

“I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and...”

“Even though I always knew I had a good nose for fragrances, the process of creating my own, 'Alive,' turned out to be a great learning experience for me. And the name explains my reason behi...”

“As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and raised in Italy, and my dad was born in Canada and moved back and forth between Canada and Ita...”

“I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's...”

“One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.”

“The women who are pool waitresses are another worldly species. They're half-desert lizards. They never have sunburns.”

“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”

“Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.”

“Before WeWork, I had a baby clothing company. When I started out, I had no real contacts in the garment business and no mentor to guide me on how things worked. I just had an idea to put pad...”

“In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.”

“He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.”

“I make decisions all day, so it's nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, 'Let me order.' Other women would be offended by that, but I'm like, 'Good....”

“Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.”

“Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a fina...”

“Plodding wins the race.”

“Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.”

“While Labour Party orators readily remember the 1980s for Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's free-booting variety of entrepreneurial meritocracy, what gets forgotten is that Tha...”

“I worked at a Web development shop and other start-ups and eventually started a project called Ludicorp, which built an online game. We soon ran out of money, and Flickr was the last-ditch e...”

“The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of governme...”

“To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.”

“For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they ins...”

“Hope is a risk that must be run.”

“Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities.”