Every accepted public quote

“The murder of a child has no justification, even if the bombs have missed their mark.”

“Every person has a choice in every situation and I decided not to be a victim of crime and to not allow myself to be crippled with fear. This is why I started Unbreakable. I wanted to teach...”

“If the tax loop holes that allow tax avoidance were shut down, it would go some way to sorting out our finances, would it not?”

“There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew - apart from, sometimes, music - to breach the barrier, to conn...”

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”

“Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue oth...”

“I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I...”

“Unfortunately, in my home, we didn't speak Arabic; it was a mixed culture. My mother played a dominant role in our educational upbringing, and we grew up as part and parcel of Belize's cultu...”

“I've worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I'm so proud of all they've done to advance veterinary medicine for animals worldwide.”

“I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was lacking and that I should have worked harder at it when I was younger. As I sang and sang, I im...”

“I play my Xbox and PlayStation at home. Then, when I'm on the road, I'll bring my Vita with me to play games like 'Snake Eater.'”

“When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do...”

“I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.”

“Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man.”

“I always take a teapot with me on tour. I suppose it's only natural that I've just written a song called 'Where Would We Be Without Tea?'”

“My heroes: Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Nina Simone.”

“She'll let you put her in her place. But she won't stand for anything worse than first.”

“I really wish Kitty were more of a reader like Margot and me.”

“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I co...”

“I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.”

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”

“Golf is a game in which you yell 'Fore!', shoot six, and write down five.”

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”

“It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.”

“I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.”

“Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.”

“Human life is beyond comprehension.”

“The error that many vegans make is forgetting that our food has novelty value. Non-vegans think our food is awful, but are fascinated by the prospect of something vegan being delicious. They...”

“If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know...”

“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”

“Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because...”

“I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!”

“We stopped cleaning our houses with lemon water and vinegar like our mothers did, and we clean with chemicals. We're breathing chemicals, and then everyone wonders why cancer is the biggest...”

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”

“Having thyroid cancer in 2009 really didn't change my life at all. I wish I could say that I had this epiphany. But I knew I was lucky before that, so it's not like I suddenly realised how l...”

“Growing up, I had my mom to look up to; J. Lo and Marilyn Monroe were notable curvy women. But I didn't have anyone with cellulite or back fat telling me they didn't care.”

“In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.”

“Pink Floyd, the most successful progressive rock band of all time, have stood the test of time because the emphasis was always on melody and atmosphere.”

“I was six years old when 'The Little Mermaid' was released in 1989 and was immediately struck by the fiery-maned, melodic-voiced, tail-swinging mermaid protagonist. She spoke to me on levels...”

“And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.”

“I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.”

“It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.”

“All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.”

“What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure,...”

“I want the market to work if it can, and most of the time it will, but not without some pain.”

“If I were rain, That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch, Could I join two hearts as well?”

“Death of a beloved leaves a deep hole in our heart.”