Every accepted public quote

“As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.”

“I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.”

“A woman can slip on a pair of embellished cage heels one night and a pair of streamlined, lightweight sneakers the next day. The beauty of modern luxury is the absence of rules.”

“Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and becau...”

“Astronism will be my eternal beacon.”

“As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running. If you don't have a good dog, it's going to be the most lonesome training camp you'll ever have.”

“Time has no limitation and boundary and it moves continuously at its own pace”

“I can make chicken curry, rice, kheema... I am a foodie and enjoy varied cuisines. My favourites are Korean and Japanese.”

“I have a plate on my neck. I had my neck fused.”

“It was precisely my love of the First Amendment that made me join sidewalk activists in 2010 to support an Islamic community center's right to open in Lower Manhattan.”

“Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there...”

“Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.”

“I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.”

“I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior and senior year. After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A....”

“No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.”

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”

“Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.”

“I'm pretty conservative. I believe that buying good quality is a good investment. I buy fewer things but of better quality.”

“What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.”

“One reason why I've taken 11 years to make my second Hindi film is because I am comfortable working with the stars in the South, as they are with me.”

“I started golfing at a young age, and growing up with two older brothers, it made me mature a lot younger.”

“The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorifica...”

“You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moo...”

“You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.”

“They welcomed me like I have been a Raven my whole life. It meant a lot to me. I knew what I could bring to the team, on and off the field.”

“Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.”

“You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisf...”

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.”

“Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.”

“I think they should make it a felony to criticise a film product. Particularly my film product. It's anti-American.”

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

“Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to t...”

“People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.”

“Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points. I think we all look to sport for inspirations.”

“The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.”

“The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.”

“Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.”

“I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.”

“As I've grown older, my testimony has grown a lot, and a lot of it really has to do with my dad. He's been a good example to me. That's really where my testimony started, in just seeing how...”

“There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.”

“We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We...”

“Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger...”

“Today, yesterday and tomorrow I will live my quality time, said the orgasm.”

“If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.”

“I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheek...”

“If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.”

“Would-be terrorists cannot so much as board a plane without a thorough screening, yet we give them nearly unfettered access to very dangerous weapons.”

“I knew of the 'Gilmore Girls' - I wasn't a rabid fan, but I watched it sporadically when it was first on.”