Every accepted public quote

“Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possib...”

“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”

“The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.”

“I wanna put numbers on the board. And the thing that everybody doesn't get is that it just doesn't happen. It doesn't just fall out of the air and land on your lap; the only way to get it is...”

“Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.”

“Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.”

“One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.”

“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”

“The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.”

“Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with people trying to convert you to quinoa.”

“Awards are only a publicity gimmick.”

“If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanit...”

“After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.”

“He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by th...”

“I feel much better being in a heel role. I'm not very good at coming out smiling and acting like a good girl. It's harder to get fans to like you when you're trying to be nice.”

“In an old family album Ever again you return, Melancholy, O meekness of the solitary soul. A golden day glows and expires. Humbly the patient man surrenders to pain Ringing with melodious so...”

“It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.”

“I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracte...”

“Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.”

“What is false about hope?”

“I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.”

“Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”

“I am intimidated by that eyeliner in a pot. You have to take a brush and wet it and then dip it in and get it straight. It's just a mess.”

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”

“Syria, for all its problems, at least has a constitution that guarantees equal protection of citizens. Around the world, we have seen that this is essential where Christians are a minority a...”

“Every man has the ability to wheel into existence his own success.”

“To innovate is not to reform.”

“I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling of hope it gives me to think that today will be different from yesterday...”

“I'm a huge fan of Morris Chestnut. I grew up with Morris, and I know him personally.”

“I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.”

“Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.”

“You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.”

“As far as we're concerned, we're always Sonic Youth, and we're always making a Sonic Youth record. We just see it so much more as a continuum than a periodic thing. We're just in the studio...”

“Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.”

“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”

“There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.”

“I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested...”

“When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.”

“In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost neve...”

“I don't feel strong anymore I feel like falling to my knees. Things aren't the way they were before, They're not the way they're supposed to be.”

“Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on.”

“Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster.'”

“Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”

“We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.”

“There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of...”

“Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.”

“The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans.”

“Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys.”