Every accepted public quote

“A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.”

“When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.”

“Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well...”

“Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.”

“I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.”

“My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible worl...”

“You're never rich enough if you can be richer.”

“We are often harsher judges than God himself.”

“New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is posit...”

“I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islands a few years ago, and we had all sorts of different mushrooms on brioche with pancetta on to...”

“If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.”

“Even though you can't get along without your smartphone, there are not many essential services on your smartphone. They're mostly convenience; you could live without it. Essential means you...”

“Once you label me you negate me.”

“My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'”

“I thought there was a glitch when they told me that in two or three weeks 'My Church' hit a million streams.”

“The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.”

“When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artis...”

“A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.”

“If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.”

“Being on 'Grease: Live' was a massive mile marker. It ultimately led me to 'Hamilton.'”

“Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it.”

“During my time in high altitude astronomy, I was never informed that I was working in an abnormal radiation environment for the sea level adapted human.”

“You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getti...”

“I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.”

“I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.”

“Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a stimulant. But if you drink it in moderation, which I think four or five cups a day is, you're fi...”

“I just don't understand the Big 12 not wanting to own Houston, Texas, which is soon to be the third-largest populous in the United States. To me, it's a no-brainer. I'm just kind of disappoi...”

“I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they th...”

“I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.”

“Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining proper hydration and caloric equilib...”

“You dont have to be great to take the steps, but you have to take the steps to be great!”

“They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'”

“When I was the detective at the Colorado Springs Police Department, in 1978, I launched an investigation into the Ku Klux Klan, a chapter that was forming and trying to expand, in my city.”

“I am neither in time nor out of time. -Red White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC”

“Regardless from beliefs and political directions, there is always something inspiring that a strong personality has to teach the world.”

“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but eve...”

“After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.”

“With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. There's something devious about my eyes. I like characters with flaws and to see how they overcome...”

“There are people out there who don't see value in intellectual property, and so they're always going to have a problem if there are lawsuits involving intellectual property.”

“Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.”

“When there is no work, I create my own.”

“When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor....”

“As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do beco...”

“I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italia...”

“The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.”

“I don't think my father was my mentor.”

“I had a year-round Christmas tree with nothing but colored vinyl 45s hanging on it, like, old Elvis records and stuff.”

“I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it's important to have limits and clear safeguards on that.”