Every accepted public quote

“Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometimes there were no happy endings, and when there were, you needed to work like...”

“I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.”

“I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it.”

“Chimere's not mine. That hurt 'cause I had attached myself to this guy, you know. This is my son. I'm looking at him, and I'm picturing I'm gonna be old, and he's gonna be - this is my son!...”

“My life is unrecognisable compared to what it was - 'Game of Thrones' has opened doors that were never there before. But it can be dangerous to see it in those terms, I think. It's best to t...”

“I believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers.”

“The only thing I really love is Fiji water. That's like the only crazy request - I don't like any other water.”

“Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.”

“Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been - and will always be - our greatest source of strength and p...”

“If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.”

“As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.”

“The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been a part of. I say sports because they train constantly, every single day.”

“We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.”

“Happiness walks on busy feet.”

“Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.”

“A lot of people, sometimes they're so stuck on, 'I gotta get married, I gotta get married.' They forget that the really important thing is to have a healthy home, a healthy family, a healthy...”

“Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.”

“I want to take this time to thank Daniel Cormier for being my biggest rival and motivator. He has absolutely no reason to hang his head. He has been a model champion, a model husband, a mode...”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

“When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.”

“There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.”

“Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigge...”

“It's crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.”

“Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you...”

“The wood simpers to the flame, entangled in a dance of ruin. And as do we, my love.”

“To err is human, but it feels divine.”

“After dealing with so much dark energy and investigating violent people for my job, I value creatures with pure souls - animals, especially dogs. I believe a higher power/god created these c...”

“We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does.”

“I grew up Catholic. The Catholic faith has played an integral role in my life. At the same time, I don't think that there is a single person that doesn't have some disagreements with their f...”

“The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on...”

“Learn how to lead, with your body and actions, not words.”

“I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I...”

“As long as I've been at Clemson, there's not a guy that's more committed to Clemson than Kelly Bryant. There's not a better leader. This guy, he's the epitome of what you want. He's what you...”

“For me there ain't no high heel high enough.”

“Just understand that the type of music that I make is something special.”

“To me, the two things that Gal Gadot - who is an amazing actress, and she played a great Wonder Woman - but the true things that she actually has inside of her are this incredible warmth and...”

“I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.”

“I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulnerability to it, his technical ability was amazing, and so much of his personality would co...”

“China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.”

“I don't dunk anymore.”

“I don't like precious things; I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I like going into a junk store and finding something for five dollars. That's my style.”

“The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.”

“There is only one person who represents all Americans. We need a president who speaks out and condemns racism and anti-Semitism. We need a president who recognizes everyone is equal. We are...”

“'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that promp...”

“I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citize...”

“After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.”

“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”

“Yesterday I was clever, That is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, That is why I am changing myself.”