Every accepted public quote

“Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.”

“Our goodnight spooning became goodbye turning away from one another, the farther we could, to the edges of the same bed.”

“The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be describe...”

“When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it be...”

“One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.”

“He's from Fayetteville. I'm from Charlotte. We got two different upbringings. All in all though, I love J. Cole's perspective and I love his music. I love his approach. It's just two differe...”

“My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.”

“All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.”

“Excessive fear is always powerless.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“It is our business to go as we are impelled.”

“I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.”

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.”

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

“Sad eyes, once had happy stories to tell.”

“There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.”

“Silence does not define science in the issue of ageing and death. The absence of at least a solution sentence is in essence evidence of a serious deficiency.”

“What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that...”

“I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female.”

“Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.”

“Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.”

“When you read that UBS did not even view parts of its mortgage portfolio as having market risk, it becomes very obvious that a number of firms were not dotting the i's and crossing the t's w...”

“Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that...”

“What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severi...”

“I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for...”

“If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully,”

“My favourite thing to do as an artist is record. It's a super therapeutic thing for me. Not to sound corny, but it literally is a stress relief for me.”

“I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards a...”

“Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.”

“If you're a fan of One Direction, 2015 felt like one hit after another. Between Zayn leaving and the band announcing their hiatus, this was the year that Directioners would love to pretend d...”

“I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.”

“Nobody reaches anywhere by believing.”

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”

“Progress on the social ladder is almost always the result of progress in other areas of your life.”

“I have detected disturbances in the wash.' 'The wash?' 'The space-time wash.' 'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?' 'Eddies in the space-time co...”

“What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty yea...”

“We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.”

“The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the...”

“I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very...”

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”

“Does [a book] inform? Not at all. One must go to it, one must make an effort. It gives one the means to inform oneself.”

“The wise always pursue unity and confront division; when unity has no hope, challenge division.”

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”

“The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fanta...”

“But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.”

“The populace becomes shattered when laws are created or altered to trample rights and freedoms; hope is lost, and aspirations quelled; the state shall become the enemy and the people have no...”

“Those who ignore the rise of evil and depravity in a democracy, grant tacit license of acceptance and draw harm upon the vulnerable. When someone has altered our course without consent, we m...”