Every accepted public quote

“Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a ri...”

“When you see the rival make a certain pass, you don't need to look behind you. You know 100 per cent that all your teammates will go with you.”

“The gimmicks that have driven the fast food sector for years - dollar menus, limited time offers, and merchandising partnerships - are not producing results like they used to, as consumers s...”

“The Internet's abundance - of information, goods, tastes and sources of authority - creates unparalleled opportunities for individuals to get exactly what they want. But this plenitude threa...”

“I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.”

“God how the dead men Grin by the wall, Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball.”

“My sanity felt like it was hanging over a pit, dangling on a frayed string that I knew was going to break - it was only a matter of when.”

“During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.”

“The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.”

“Malaysia has got all the things in place to continue growth: the policies are there; the mechanisms are there. So, I think even when I am not around, Malaysia can do with other people who ar...”

“Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.”

“Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.”

“I always bring cash for tips, and I never give less than $20. I used to work in a smoothie shop, so I know the value of a tip.”

“I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis.”

“In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The s...”

“I will not stand idly when anyone gets in the way of the national interest and tries to block the national vision. From where I sit, I can tell you, a president is always as strong as she wa...”

“Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can wo...”

“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”

“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is t...”

“Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities.”

“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”

“We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.”

“Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear. Rel...”

“Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more t...”

“Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think t...”

“There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.”

“Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.”

“It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph...”

“I'm very much half city and half country boy.”

“In order to get re-elected, Obama told us Al Qaeda was on the run and all but defeated.”

“If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you mak...”

“God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued w...”

“I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like a cloud for ten years, following the food supply. I was a hunter,...”

“The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it: its unity is variable and relative. As soon as one que...”

“Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.”

“Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.”

“The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.”

“We've had enough career politicians in Helena who think the people are here to serve them. It's supposed to be the other way around.”

“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”

“I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.”

“I love my brows, but I have to fill them in to look a certain way. And with the eyebrow tint, I don't have to fill them in as much.”

“I wanted to be a professional baseball player.”

“A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.”

“People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.”

“This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury...”

“If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.”

“I tell my daughter every morning, 'Now, what are the two most important parts of you?' And she says, 'My head and my heart.' Because that's what I've learned in the foxhole: What gets you th...”

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back...”