Every accepted public quote

“To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.”

“My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the head of the clan. Every morning, we all had to say good morning and kiss h...”

“A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want...”

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”

“A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don'...”

“Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a number of entangled jealousies. It is, legally speaking, every aptitude hav...”

“My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.”

“Colleges prefer to enroll wealthy students because they know it's more likely that they'll pay for full tuition without needing financial aid. They're also more likely to have parents who wi...”

“We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.”

“You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?”

“Any British household with a scrap of land has always grown herbs for the kitchen. From the superb monastic herb gardens down to the humblest cottage, a supply of fresh herbs would have been...”

“Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in...”

“I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.”

“If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of e...”

“The Light is your real Self, the I AM Presence, the full monadic perfection of All Ths Is, SOURCE.”

“I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.”

“There are some things that I don't do well because I'm a woman with regards to raising my kids, and Sean is better suited to do. And there are some things I'm better suited at.”

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”

“While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly m...”

“No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.”

“When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.”

“The record is clear; nothing succeeds like success and there is no predictor of academic success better than a history of academic success.”

“As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.”

“What I love about Sade other than her smooth and sultry voice is her willingness to be vulnerable. As a powerful, strong and beautiful woman of color, she showed her delicate, passionate sid...”

“Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revo...”

“Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.”

“In Uganda, I am surrounded, unfortunately, by evangelicals; I can't bear it. Every night I hear the chants of Baptists urging people to be born again.”

“Me and Sean Payton have a great relationship.”

“Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.”

“Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.”

“The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.”

“I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.”

“I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and th...”

“The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and t...”

“I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there.”

“The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is, perhaps, cowardice.”

“My father, Larry McKelvey, he was the man in Moncks Corner. He ran illegal nightclubs where everyone went, ran around in red leather pants, claimed he partied with Rick James. If you needed...”

“The Iraqi people will not allow any country to take possession of their own resources.”

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”

“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”

“To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's...”

“Of course ankle length socks are cheaper, but they don't cover the lower leg as hosiery should.”

“Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.”

“People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on m...”

“The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their compan...”

“You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.”

“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”

“I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and t...”