Every accepted public quote

“I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.”

“Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.”

“It's life. You deal with it or you don't.”

“He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.”

“Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travail in faith today will truimph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way.”

“Where do the words go when we have said them?”

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”

“If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be suc...”

“If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame.”

“Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to a...”

“Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.”

“Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

“Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.”

“You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.”

“I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.”

“I was rejected for couple of adverts for sounding too sad. One was for Diet Coke, but it's a good thing it didn't happen because it probably would have been a big blight on my soul. It also...”

“I probably wouldn't have made it this far if I were a refugee.”

“I never cared for stuff like the All-Star Game.”

“If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.”

“You need to have spent your time from playing Top 40 pop rock in order to know how to play a song like 'Ritual,' a song like 'Absolution' or 'Idolatrine.' You need to know your classic drumm...”

“Qualification sans quality, is no qualification at all.”

“The sea is dangerous, they say, but not if you're the sea.”

“There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. T...”

“By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.”

“I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me...”

“All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.”

“In 2010, I attended Prince George's Community College in hopes of transferring to The University of Maryland. My major was computer science, and the goal was to one day work as an I.T.”

“But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.”

“It's not been a bad life, and I do know that I could never have been a world champion. All I ever wanted to do was be the best I could with what I had, which wasn't very much, really. And th...”

“I never pay any attention. I'm sure it's not such a good way to be, but I don't really follow market research.”

“To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.”

“I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.”

“If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.”

“I know it was wonderful, but I don't know how I did it.”

“With Fancy Bear, we have medium-level confidence it's GRU, which is Russia's military intelligence agency, and with Cozy Bear, we have low-level confidence it's FSB, the Russian federal secu...”

“I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.”

“Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.”

“The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.”

“Tina Fey is the most caring woman I've worked with in this business.”

“The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.”

“If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.”

“Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word ou...”

“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.”

“I want to travel the world - like Egypt. I love history. That's my favorite subject at school. From the building of the pyramids to... King Tut. Their way of working without technology. I fi...”

“A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.”

“It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.”

“Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.”

“It's important to understand your ownership pattern because it is an expression of the values that guide your life. The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you w...”