Every accepted public quote

“My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present.”

“To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.”

“As far as trucks, the great thing about a Range Rover is if you're going out for a dinner, even a black tie event, you can take the Range Rover.”

“My off-pitch style is probably girly and comfortable. I like a lot of loose-fitting material on top and more tight-fitting material on the bottom.”

“The children are our future. Lets teach them the right things and protect them from the wrong things.”

“Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many ideas that would make interesting stories - too many - so it's imp...”

“A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.”

“His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight.”

“We just haven't had enough women in senior roles on Wall Street overall - fewer women in the investment banking function overall as well.”

“Human beings, in their present evolved state, have a limited capacity to digest, understand, and then properly and accurately disseminate events and information to other nodes of discourse.”

“The dreamer, while he is dreaming certainly, does not question his dream. It is the same with the matter of time.”

“I didn't do that many crazy things.”

“So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty. The only thing I am sure of is that each time his lips leave mine th...”

“I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.”

“I would say that I'm blessed with a very, very good executive team that operates, reasonably autonomously, each of the companies.”

“The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great...”

“Growing up, I thought salt belonged in a shaker at the table and nowhere else.”

“I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living...”

“While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.”

“There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.”

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”

“I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and gra...”

“I think that we all plateau, from fitness experts to regular folks at every fitness level. What that means is we need to change our exercise routine, food, and attitude.”

“I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'”

“Happiness springs up from within. Do not seek it without.”

“I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.”

“At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now comp...”

“To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.”

“Time flows away like the water in the river.”

“Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and posi...”

“My wife said, 'Take me in your arms and whisper something soft and sweet.' I said, 'chocolate fudge.'”

“Cuban Americans have little in common with immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and often their priorities don't align. If it seems like Cuban Americans don't have to play by the same...”

“Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.”

“The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.”

“It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.”

“People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into socia...”

“I actually began my career by convincing my parents to let me be an actress when I was 12 with a PowerPoint presentation describing acting and my goals.”

“I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it -...”

“Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to s...”

“Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.”

“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”

“We moved back to Britain for my secondary education.”

“I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.”

“Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and inclusive, particularly on resource allocation and use.”

“We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.”

“It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.”

“We are going through a period of profound political and economic change around the world, and American citizens showed that deep desire for change in voting to elect Donald Trump as the 45th...”

“Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.”