Every accepted public quote

“When boasting ends, there dignity begins.”

“Home wasn't built in a day.”

“It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.”

“You ain't got to wait on a cab no more; just call your Uber, and it pulls up. But waiting isn't an option: that's just a big part of life.”

“The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.”

“I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.”

“When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very carefully here - effective in our expansion. We really had - expansion of government agencies and exp...”

“My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.”

“My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.”

“You love what you love, no reasoning, no shit, for their lies your soul.”

“The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.”

“Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned u...”

“Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.”

“Sam Nunn might bring us Georgia and maybe even another Southern state but, in my opinion, at an unacceptable cost to our principles and to the concept of change that has stirred millions to...”

“I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.”

“It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be aro...”

“LeBron ain't got none of my game, but his heart is all mine.”

“The future is something to look forward to, not a place to escape to, and even if you like to dream or fantasize about what lies ahead for you, do it mindfully.”

“The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination a...”

“Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged.”

“The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.”

“Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together...”

“When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope...”

“You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of you...”

“I'm a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.”

“I really disliked Philadelphia society - really, deeply disliked it. I spent a lot of my teenage years writing poetry attacking it.”

“To say Donald Trump would be a disaster for our country, our democracy, and our future would be doing a grave disservice to the word 'disaster.'”

“In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you'...”

“I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular...”

“I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.”

“If you understand physics of how a locomotive works, that knowledge is irreplaceable.”

“Give me agony or give me death, I'll take thy heart as eternal breath”

“In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.”

“I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.”

“I love voiceover. I never understood this idea that it was lazy. Well, yes, there are those movies or TV shows that use it as just a way to get out exposition. But you know what? That's just...”

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”

“One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.”

“So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy...”

“I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.”

“We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.”

“As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to...”

“The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent muc...”

“Glad would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long ago', comments the narrator; and his comment shows that the ancient smith was not glad, did not know, was condemned to def...”

“If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.”

“I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But,...”

“Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a who...”

“Houston is my team, always and forever. But with the new TV packages, it's so easy to watch every league in the world, and my overseas fandom is driven by the American guys. If Sunderland's...”

“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”