Every accepted public quote

“I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year later, the deal was done with Yahoo, and we closed it in March of 200...”

“Being a kid's not easy. You're transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you're out in the world.”

“I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them dai...”

“I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.”

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,...”

“All men faces troubles.”

“In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.”

“Self-publishing provides more freedom and control, but it also provides more risk. Publishing provides more credibility and promotion, but your vision can also get lost in the bureaucratic m...”

“Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry.”

“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”

“I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said thi...”

“[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.”

“Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a...”

“When women are starting out in their careers, they tend to be confident and look to aspire to leadership role and really want those positions. But then over time, as they advance, they becom...”

“I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would pre...”

“Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's gener...”

“I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create te...”

“How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.”

“He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equi...”

“HBO was a big thing for stand-up, and when you're a broke kid with absolutely nothing to do on the weekend, there was always video recording your HBO specials. I would just rewind those spec...”

“I had a fantastic time at Birmingham and I never regret anything that happened there.”

“You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.”

“I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, 'cause there were toys that I wanted when I...”

“While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that m...”

“The idea that Americans are more divided than ever, entrenched in ideological camps and unwilling to meet in the middle, is so pervasive that one hardly goes a single hour without hearing ab...”

“I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood....”

“The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.”

“Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.”

“At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.”

“Innovation means taking risks, and that is where the private sector can play a role.”

“Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.”

“The downside to making movies at a gallop like we did with 'Wish You Were Here' is that we're shooting four or five scenes in a day, and it's very exhilarating, but you worry at the end of t...”

“I'm really into, like, characters - music characters like Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain - just, like, how they are and stuff. Like Lil Wayne.”

“It is important to have faith in life to connect to the fellow human beings as much as we need rational mind to understand the material world. It is unwise to drop all faiths just because fa...”

“All of these technologies that we are putting together... our memory technology, our CPU, our graphics architecture, our GPUs - all that is being applied to where the data is. You can almost...”

“I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.”

“We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.”

“I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.”

“In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.”

“For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.”

“A man is only as weak as his doubts weigh him down.”

“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”

“Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd...”

“My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.”

“I think Tony Blair has to come down on one side or the other. You can't be a half-hearted supporter of the possible attack on Iraq. You're either with George Bush or you're against him.”

“Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff.”

“Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.”

“Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.”