Every accepted public quote

“I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling do...”

“Once at a time, certain things will become impossible, do your best now.”

“I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.”

“At Marshall Field in Chicago, I had them take a big bed into the menswear department, one with black sheets. I'd get in bed wearing a nightcap, and my fans would get in bed with me, one at a...”

“Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.”

“Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.”

“To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.”

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

“We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.”

“To hate others is ugly. To hate yourself is uglier.”

“Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.”

“If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.”

“If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from my mother and my practicality from my father.”

“Without the rebellious heart, without people who understand that there's no sacrifice we can make that is too great to retrieve that which we've lost, we will forever be distracted with poss...”

“If I want to listen to myself as much as I want to listen to Drake or Beyonce, I feel like that's a good sign.”

“A few days after Bloody Sunday, there was demonstration in more than 80 American cities. People were demanding that the government act.”

“Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don...”

“My commercial viability, coupled with my reputation, gives me enough freedom to assert my right as a composer.”

“There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.”

“The fact that there aren't more restrictions on the media is disgraceful.”

“I really don't go out. I love watching movies, and on a day off, I'll work out, do groceries, do laundry, see a friend.”

“I'm the weirdest person.”

“The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot,...”

“Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.”

“And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.”

“I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As a new mom, it is what it is, and we just have to do our best.”

“I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resona...”

“We have to remember that Arafat was the one that started with hijacking airplanes already in 1968.”

“In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.”

“Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy...”

“I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.”

“I love movies where you can tell who's directed it even before the credits roll in, like Wes Anderson or Quentin Tarantino. People who make very stylized types of film.”

“Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.”

“Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.”

“It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.”

“I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1%, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants, and war profiteers.”

“In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.”

“As children we were bombarded by competing answers. Church says one thing, school another. Now as adults it's no surprise that if we discuss the nature of it all, we generally spout some com...”

“It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all.”

“The old economy with careers and benefits and pensions is gone. There are scary implications to that.”

“My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.”

“If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.”

“When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual,...”

“The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius...”

“People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.”

“Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!”

“All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.”

“The success, or failure, of a CEO to implement AI throughout the organization will depend on them hiring a leader to build an organization to do this. In some companies, CIOs or chief data o...”