Every accepted public quote

“I feel like I'm making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow your dreams and just work at what you want to do and be yourself.”

“In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.”

“I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.”

“Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.”

“If you're playing for 10 or 15 years, you can't every week run six option plays. It can be around. It can be a part of the game, but sooner or later you've got to deliver the ball from the p...”

“It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”

“The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.”

“I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.”

“Brainpower is our inner genius that craves to radiate creativity, positivity, hope, and ideas for the greater good of our real self and the world.”

“It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.”

“But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.”

“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.”

“Most jokes state a bitter truth.”

“After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.”

“The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A str...”

“I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.”

“I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.”

“Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.”

“In management terms, directing opera certainly prepares you for a film set: the magnitude of it, the experts in other fields that you have to call on. Both are massive ensemble jobs in which...”

“Wish it, Plan it, Do it.”

“Every time I see my words quoted, I go, 'Yeah!'”

“There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction an...”

“Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.”

“MAVNI was never intended to be utilized for the benefit of illegal aliens.”

“Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.”

“I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to...”

“Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.”

“Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.”

“A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.”

“First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.”

“I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.”

“Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.”

“To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transpare...”

“The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.”

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”

“History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.”

“At home, I tend to read print, and most of the time, that means recently released hardcover novels. I enjoy the feel of paper and board; I like turning pages, dog-earing my spot, jotting not...”

“The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.”

“In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.”

“I had really bad polyps on my vocal cords, and I've had them since I was a kid, but the bulimia made it 10 times worse. They were bleeding constantly, and it was straining on my voice. And j...”

“The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals...”

“Nothing can explain God and Gravity”

“There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine,...”

“In Tamil Nadu, watching a film on a festival is a part of our culture. People prefer going to a theatre rather than bursting crackers at home.”

“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”

“It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.”

“Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have...”

“Karan Johar is a great person.”