Every accepted public quote

“I always think that change is like a daisy chain.”

“We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology.”

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

“Always try and be a better person than you were yesterday, cause we aren't guaranteed tomorrow.”

“I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but there is a precedent for this sort of thing.”

“Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It's such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and str...”

“Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.”

“Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we lov...”

“Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.”

“Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friend...”

“His presence is found at the end of your rope”

“I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over m...”

“I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.”

“On the back of a quarter it says trust in God; Have you?”

“I'm probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.”

“I don't like to risk - I'm actually not a tough guy at all, make no mistake about it, so I'm not going to do something that I'm scared of. So, if something looks dangerous, at the time I did...”

“How can you have the religion of the sovereign be the religion of the state if the sovereign belongs to many religions? And it's at that point, I think, historically, that you start to see p...”

“We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homel...”

“I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.”

“... as an up-to-date Russian progressive and contemptible Petersburger, it struck me as inexplicable that, knowing so much, they had, for instance, no science like our.”

“Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.”

“Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?”

“Listen to the time as it can heal everything.”

“Aj fir kisi ne pucha karo ek sabad me baya apne mohobat koo.... Zuban par sirf tera naam aya....”

“Sam Cooke was a gospel singer like myself, and when he crossed over and started singing rock n' roll, it kind of gave me the green light to go ahead and do it.”

“I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.”

“When I was a first-year in grad school, there were 18 of us in the Ph.D. program, and four of us were women.”

“I was 9 years old when my father - a strong, vibrant man in his early 40s - died of a heart attack. He was such a central figure in our lives that losing him was a terrible shock to all of u...”

“I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'”

“Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.”

“A lot of the factories that had been the bedrock of many small cities were being shut down, which led me to investigate what I'm calling the 'de-industrial revolution.'”

“I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.”

“Whenever there is a threat to cooperative federalism, the TDP will certainly raise its voice.”

“No human quality belongs to only one class of person. We all get to be both aggressive and loving. We all get to delight in our careers and revel in our children. We're all kind and brave, s...”

“I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I've been truly blessed.”

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that...”

“Beetle Bailey is actually me, in uniform. I've got about 20 characters, and they're all after friends of mine.”

“Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises itself as repressive, backward, and insecure.”

“Hidup tanpa harapan adalah hidup yang kosong”

“Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.”

“Birthday marks the beginning of a new year, new hopes and new dreams! So, we should never blow out the candle before cutting the cake on such a day. Let the candle burn! Let it spread light...”

“All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matte...”

“I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.”

“The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.”

“Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing.”

“Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.”

“I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear...”

“Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.”