Every accepted public quote

“So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because th...”

“In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thic...”

“And the question about if I ever dreamed of making the putt on the last hole of a U.S. Open when I was a kid, no, I didn't. But I hit a lot of game-winning shots on the basketball court when...”

“The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.”

“The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.”

“I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it.”

“Creating the album 'VIBES' has been the biggest life lesson I have ever learned.”

“My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with...”

“When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.”

“My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless.”

“We can all agree that social media is an amazing platform where we can interact with and meet people and that we probably would have never had the chance to otherwise, right? However, it als...”

“In terms of keeping kosher, I've basically just been vegetarian. I want to be fully vegetarian anyway, though sometimes my mom makes chicken soup and I have to eat it. I just love it.”

“Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.”

“Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just w...”

“URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.”

“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”

“It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.”

“Migratory birds connect people, ecosystems, and nations. They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet.”

“We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way...”

“A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.”

“What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself...”

“The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.”

“Each January, I put God first and honor him with the first of our substance by sowing a first fruits offering of one month's pay. That is a big sacrifice, but it is a seed for the harvest I...”

“It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.”

“Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters millis...”

“Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”

“I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.”

“Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.”

“'Drag Race' doesn't claim to represent drag as a whole. 'Drag Race' is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other's art and who your real identity is...”

“We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.”

“My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to...”

“Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.”

“I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.”

“I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.”

“The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them!”

“We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.”

“What is hardcore? Hardcore is not just being hardcore, hardcore is going in the ring and giving 100% of yourself. Hardcore is great fans.”

“As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.”

“George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.”

“I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something...”

“I especially enjoyed some of the old hairstyles, with my hair down to my shoulders and a beard. And Henley's nickname used to be 'Furry Basketball' because he had that fro. It was fun to jus...”

“I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.”

“War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.”

“I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they wer...”

“I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.”

“I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had s...”

“Any established media, such as literature, music, or film, offers a wide variety of experiences touching emotions from the very primal to the deeply complex. No matter who the audience are o...”

“Studio heads seem to be getting the message that there is not only an audience out there, but there is a desire for people to see people of colour in central roles and in authoritative roles...”