Every accepted public quote

“Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impress...”

“A staunch abolitionist, Hamilton was one of the founding members of the New York Manumission Society. He was a trustee and namesake of Hamilton-Oneida Academy, an upstate New York school ded...”

“On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.”

“We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.”

“Act as if it were impossible to fail.”

“Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.”

“I want us to move as quickly as we can towards a free trade deal between the U.K. and the U.S.A. that would be good for both of us. That would also send a signal to the European Union that t...”

“A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.”

“The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony...”

“As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.”

“I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it b...”

“But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment.”

“The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.”

“Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.”

“We may have done what the devil said we did, but we are NOT who the devil says we are!”

“The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the train...”

“Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for some products, but if you diminish the...”

“My best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends. It's fun to tour with a buddy and somebody that I just enjoy hanging out with....”

“I'd really like to play a character who's inarticulate. I always play people with language. It would be good to play a mute or a fool or a saint.”

“I did sign to Ruthless Records, but they didn't really support me.”

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

“I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she f...”

“One of the most offensive actions by the IRS is its continued unlawful seizures of money and assets of innocent Americans, called civil asset forfeiture.”

“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.”

“The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to s...”

“I'm so in love with the United States. Not as a patriot. I'm in love with America like it's my first girlfriend. The geography, the people, the smell, the touch, the taste, the gas stations....”

“I don't feel 50. I'm still ambitious, and I've only just got my licence to race sports cars. I race for an Aston Martin team called Beechdean, and it's a huge challenge.”

“I do enjoy having researchers and writers around me because I am getting a lot of different influences now from the opposite sex, different races, people of different ages, who are helping w...”

“I don't want to just be a teenage star. I want to be known by parents, and I want them to go, 'Oh I love that song; he's really good for his age. My daughter loves him, but I love him, too.'”

“Russia is not a friendly character on the world stage.”

“The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.”

“Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”

“Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.”

“My parents never leave me alone.”

“We maintain and hold that Muslims and Hindus are two major nations by any definition or test of a nation.”

“Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.”

“I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay.”

“Remember, it isn't the dreamers who have good lives - it's the doers. Remember also what I call the three Ps of success: passion, planning, and perseverance.”

“I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in...”

“Our nation is defined by an unshakable belief that we, the people, have the ability to control our destiny. A belief that anyone can reach out and grab opportunity and create a more prospero...”

“I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard.”

“The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.”

“A chef's palate is born out of his childhood, and one thing all chefs have in common is a mother who can cook.”

“I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 t...”

“I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed.”

“I feel so honored that I'm bringing part of the culture of my country to other countries, you know, like the funk music.”

“WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own...”

“The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.”