Every accepted public quote

“I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.”

“With long skirts, you can really buff. People open doors for you and everything.”

“Guantanamo Bay can be and has been visited repeatedly by the International Red Cross and other human-rights groups for observation in an open, regular, and transparent manner. Detainees rece...”

“Congress created tax-exempt 501(c)(4)s to operate exclusively for social welfare purposes like early childhood education, environmental protection, and veteran's assistance. However, an IRS...”

“'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in ter...”

“The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and a...”

“I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand kn...”

“Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.”

“Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.”

“I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.”

“There is no shortage of beautiful people in this world. What use is your beauty to me? Your beautiful hair, your beautiful eyes and legs? I will only speak of your beauty if your beautiful s...”

“Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one...”

“I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.”

“I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.”

“I started making raps in 2014, recording stuff from my iPhone and putting them together in Sony Vegas, which is a video editing program.”

“42 years 0 months 0 days; or 504 months 0 days; or 2191 weeks 3 days; or 15,340 days; or 368,160 hours; or 22,089,600 minutes; or 1,325,376,000 seconds; I had survived all these times, it's...”

“Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed. Thus, the goodness that exists within each and every one of us is covered with...”

“We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.”

“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”

“If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.”

“I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.”

“I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.”

“Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.”

“Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.”

“A culture that denies death is a barrier to achieving a good death. Overcoming our fears and wild misconceptions about death will be no small task, but we shouldn't forget how quickly other...”

“In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.”

“The honest truth is - and I have felt this way forever - is my largest competitor is myself. Always. I am intimidated by my own hang-ups about acting more so than anything, any part, any dir...”

“'I Am Number Four' is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has be...”

“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”

“You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.”

“I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should stroke its hair, whisper in its ear, be one with it! And you shouldn't feel sorry if other peop...”

“It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in other...”

“If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”

“A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful...”

“I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.”

“Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small...”

“Films have to appeal to youngsters - it has to have tamasha, drama, and sensationalism.”

“It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am a committed citizen.”

“I like vintage a lot.”

“I try to do things in one take, but doubling rhythm parts is always difficult, especially if you want things to cut the way I want them to cut.”

“Hope is a mackerel sky.”

“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”

“Back in the early days at Netflix, it wasn't unheard of for me to tell prospective hires that I could see our stock going to a hundred dollars someday.”

“'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the othe...”

“Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!”

“That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative...”

“I feel like David Byrne is a great example of someone who is always in the 'now' moment of music and finding reasons to be excited and always seeing what's special about it.”