Every accepted public quote

“For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story...”

“I'd like to wrestle an alligator and fly a fighter jet.”

“I think some of the best pieces of advice for me was when I talked to some of the great players who have had success in this league how much they emphasized the importance of rest, that you...”

“There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.”

“I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy do...”

“There are so many things I want to tell her, so many things she doesn't know; like how I remember when she first came home from the hospital, a big pink blob with a perma-smile, and she used...”

“There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.”

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefi...”

“God's only excuse is that he does not exist”

“In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic...”

“When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me.”

“There isn't a doubt that Iran constitutes the single most important single-country strategic challenge to the United States and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see.”

“All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as of now.”

“Bookshop Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?' Customer's friend: 'Jesus.”

“In life and living, there is just one thing you should never take for granted: anything can happen.”

“We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely, but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.”

“I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.”

“I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambiti...”

“After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train,...”

“Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.”

“If you're a young kid out there, put away your Twitter accounts if you want to be a pro football player. Somebody's going to hack your account; somebody's going to cause you problems.”

“I go to the British Comedy Awards and, you know, quite a few people were making jokes at my expense. It just made me feel awful, because I am there with my wife and she has gone out and boug...”

“You have two choices, two paths to take as a comedian. You can tackle the difficult subjects and be harsh about it, be brash, be abrasive. But adding hatred to racism is not going to help ev...”

“I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No amount of preparing can really ready us, in a meaningful way, for the great void that...”

“I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national television exposure.”

“My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you kno...”

“Nothing about football is underrated.”

“We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter...”

“I remember walking onstage in the first performance, and something hit me like a brick wall, and I just knew at that moment that this is something I had to do for the rest of my life, and I'...”

“Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.”

“I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.”

“Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled.”

“Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this giganti...”

“I think I understand the relationships between different people within the company: people who are straightforward employees, people who can impact the bottom line, and people who share in t...”

“A sunset is God's way of saying He loves you. A good grade on a test is God's way of saying He loves you. Throughout any given day, God makes it so that you are comforted, secure and loved.”

“In this big ball of people, I'm just one grain of sand on this beach.”

“For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.”

“Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.”

“If a third of Americans' time is being spent online, why is only a quarter of ad dollars spent there? It's not proportional.”

“Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up being a part of travel.”

“A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.”

“I would never put on a Mets hat. Only if I was playing a Met as part of the job. Which, actually, I did a long time ago.”

“One thing that was frustrating to us, always, was having to do so much press building up an album, and you're asked so many questions about, you know, is it more melodic, is it heavier, are...”

“I was just a kid who had arrived in the world of professional football and thought he could do anything he wanted. But I have learned from my mistakes. I have done everything to change, both...”

“We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars.”

“In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an e...”

“People are what matters to me the most, and if they need their religion to cope with their struggles of life, then I'll defend their right to faith with all the might in my veins, no matter...”

“The way I toe the line with comedy is I run jokes past people.”