Every accepted public quote

“You need to protect the best players in the country. When there is so much cricket, we must work on ways to prolong their careers.”

“Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane”

“I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tini...”

“My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.”

“Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperame...”

“We became the first political movement in Italy, and the media didn't even realize it.”

“Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.”

“We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established...”

“For my part, the more I went forward in the study of letters, and ever more easily, the greater became the ardour of my devotion to them, until in truth I was so enthralled by my passion for...”

“For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.”

“El Santo's movies were kind of out there, but Mil Mascaras did the more reality-based type sci-fi movies. You could say he was one of the first to open the notion for those that subscribe to...”

“What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behi...”

“Everything I do, I try to think, 'Okay, what are the ramifications?' Like, with the clothes I wear, I prefer if it's grown organically, because cotton - which is what's used in most clothing...”

“Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.”

“The real problem with Obamacare has little to do with the number of people signing up, and a lot to do with the restrictions on insurance companies and reimbursement rates to doctors.”

“I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good...”

“My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.”

“When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.”

“'As' by Stevie Wonder - it's the greatest song ever written, bro.”

“Vin Diesel is crazy, and when I say crazy, I mean it in a good way. He's crazy about Latinos, and he's not even a Latino. He even wants to speak Spanish. I told him we should do a song toget...”

“You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.”

“It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective geni...”

“John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.”

“Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconcepti...”

“I was an anarchist punk, and I think, in many ways, I still am.”

“To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablish...”

“Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.”

“The only nickname I've ever had is Merlin, like the magician. I don't know why.”

“I was a kid that grew up listening to The Beatles and The Stones and Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, and I wanted all of that in there. But at the same time, a large part of my pl...”

“Those who dig for water and give up, make potholes. Those who persist and dig deep, make a well.”

“There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.”

“I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things...”

“Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.”

“There are some great video clips of me swearing, screaming at players, but I was also the biggest cheerleader in the league.”

“I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are.”

“The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.”

“We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.”

“She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her...”

“Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or t...”

“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way ba...”

“Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.”

“I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.”

“I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.”

“I really feel like social media - it's like all these tiny stages that you put yourself on. And you come to rely on these likes and favorites, and it's this applause and this validation that...”

“The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.”

“In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brus...”

“I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in a...”

“We're going to fight hard on this. We're going to push hard - not just on North Korea; we're going to push hard on other countries who are not abiding by the resolutions and not abiding by t...”