Every accepted public quote

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”

“Male rock stars are sexy because they desire you first. I want to be like that.”

“My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.”

“there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place...”

“Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.”

“Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.”

“Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living; and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.”

“I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a...”

“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

“I'm not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I'm writing about people like me, who maybe had a rough childhood.”

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up sh...”

“There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.”

“Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.”

“I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.”

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”

“Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.”

“Yeah, ever since I was super-young I had a lot of dreams - I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a skateboarder.”

“Go to heaven for the love and hell for the tussle and hassle.”

“I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It alwa...”

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”

“I think that Batman loses his efficacy and mythology if he's got too many people around him. That's what the Justice League is for, you know what I mean?”

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”

“People who let themselves learn new things are the best kind of people.”

“Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly...”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

“My style of working is I'll often be behind the camera, or right next to the camera yelling words at people, like, 'Say this, say this! Say it this way!' I'll straight-up give Anthony Hopkin...”

“Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change”

“The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty an...”

“Security breeds insecurity, independence breeds discovery.”

“People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.”

“A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.”

“Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.”

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,'said Gimli. 'Maybe,'said Elrond,'but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”

“To love is to open oneself up for vulnerabilities To love is to open oneself up for uncertainties”

“Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”

“Some people let things happen; others make things happen.”

“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”

“I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.”

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”

“People are unpredictable at the end of the day.”

“Difficulties are things that show what men are.”

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.”

“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”

“The intuitive always attempt to dissect a problem, person or other matters of nature and therefore are the nobles of wisdom.”

“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”

“I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly...”

“If you're anything like me, You bite your nails, And laugh when you're nervous. You promise people the world, because that's what they want from you. You like giving them what they want... B...”

“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.”