Every accepted public quote

“I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.”

“My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certai...”

“I have to wonder if you're not being slightly naive here. I mean, are you saying that you want nothing for people? You have no motives? Everybody has motives. Name the person, the circumstan...”

“What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.”

“Having to censor yourself - whether it's lying at the water cooler about how you spent your weekend, scrubbing your Facebook page of any revealing facts, or pretending to be with someone you...”

“Live, Princess, for me. I love You”

“The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.”

“I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.”

“When you've been on Instagram and Twitter long enough, you know how mean people can be.”

“There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.”

“I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.”

“The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get strai...”

“Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a clos...”

“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”

“When I got the ball in the reserves, within two touches I would turn and look to attack my opponent, whereas in the first team, I was trying for the safer option. I needed to go back to basi...”

“A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.”

“The last thing I want to do, even in the off-season, is traipse around shops looking for clothes: it's not my thing.”

“All indications are that three and a half billion years ago, Mars looked like Earth. It had lakes. It had rivers. It had river deltas. It had snow-capped peaks and puffy clouds and blue sky....”

“He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.”

“Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.”

“I believe, whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies. So India's this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasion,...”

“Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.”

“To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.”

“This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of draina...”

“I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.”

“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”

“I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.”

“The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.”

“I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.”

“Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.”

“When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do...”

“There's nothing better on Christmas morning than waking up to the smell of breakfast!”

“You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you...”

“Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.”

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

“The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and t...”

“Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.”

“You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the nex...”

“Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more tim...”

“My whole life, even as a kid, I would say, 'I want to be on a billboard!' To be on a fashion billboard, for a brand, is a life dream.”

“Our children... deserve to grow up in an environment where fear is not their constant companion. And I'm determined to do everything I can to make sure every kid - in every neighborhood rega...”

“I don't have a favourite designer because I feel every designer offers something different and special, but I do really like Alexander Wang, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Balmain.”

“People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.”

“I am a Midwestern Democrat, which I believe means practical, reasonable, willing to work across the aisle and focused on the economy and the middle class, saving the middle class.”

“The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.”

“I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the B...”

“I've been on the other side where I know that a bad day at WWE beats the best day at Staples.”

“You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.”