Every accepted public quote

“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”

“The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.”

“In Chile, they had penas, where the community would come together to sing and plan how they were going to overthrow the government. There's a real hopefulness in that community style of orga...”

“He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.”

“I'm 6ft 7in and I was a bit like a giraffe on the tennis court, though I did play at county level.”

“If you set a regimen up, you can lose weight. I grinded my weight off.”

“Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.”

“If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting g...”

“People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.”

“I haven't played a lot of nice guys.”

“The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of spo...”

“And you think these collapses are your end But nebulas collapse to become stars.”

“I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' -...”

“Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to you...”

“Young men often seek tests and trials, and to me, BUD/S training - basic underwater demolition/SEAL - seemed like the ultimate test.”

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”

“I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.”

“My own personal melting pot has no room for Hendrix or heavy metal, filled as it is with European ancestors such as Debussy, Sibelius, Bartok, Lutoslawski, and Ligeti.”

“Borne the burden and heat of the day.”

“It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.”

“No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.”

“In my late teens and early twenties, I thought having children was possibly the most irresponsible thing you could do because I thought that the world was a dreadful place; I thought the soo...”

“I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs,...”

“Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in 'War and Peace.'...”

“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”

“Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.”

“If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.”

“I think people wanted to see some specificity in faith on TV.”

“Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns are the main event of WrestleMania 34 because neither one is content, and both are ambitious enough to push the limits of what is now considered their greatest...”

“Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educat...”

“France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.”

“That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.”

“Hate bread. Too many carbs.”

“You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you...”

“I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.”

“Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't mat...”

“It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes...”

“In the country of the story the writer is king.”

“People change us. It is a rare, if not an impossible occurrence, that we come out of relationships unscathed. In our dealings with people we take something with us and we leave something beh...”

“I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit...”

“My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.”

“A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.”

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

“Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well a...”

“I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favor...”

“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”

“After my pregnancy, I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is, all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook.”

“There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”