Every accepted public quote

“When I was a kid, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.”

“The church can never be the community of perfect, trouble-free people; the church cannot be a club of the moral elite. If the church is a church of the cross, of the Love of Father and Son,...”

“Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.”

“We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.”

“You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.”

“You just can't go back and expect your mind to be blown by the same thing every time. Life doesn't work that way.”

“We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.”

“No one has yet convinced me a dollar stranded overseas is better than a dollar brought back home here to America for any reasons. So, if a company needs it, whether it's to do research, buy...”

“If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.”

“You look at the pioneers that have paved the way for players like myself. Sometimes, you just sit back and scratch your head.”

“I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear categ...”

“Change' - Obama's election mantra - is a direct, in-your-face affront to the very vision of our Founding Fathers.”

“This is a country that was founded on racism. It was built on racism. It still continues to thrive through wealth disparity, and housing disparity is all built on the backs of racism.”

“How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's B...”

“When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was li...”

“When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along...”

“Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.”

“Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.”

“There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from diffe...”

“Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.”

“I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane...”

“The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget slashing, and coupled perhaps with positive encouragement for credit contraction.”

“Only thing I ever thought I'd see is a picture with me in a uniform with stripes on it and a number under my mug shot.”

“I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.”

“In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.”

“Dengan memagut secangkir kopi, aku berlindung dari godaan kesepian yang merasuk.”

“Despite all the hoopla - despite all the umpa - after 5 years of UDP mismanagement, corruption, and incompetence, we have sunk deeper into debt of $2.4 billion: some $200 million deeper in d...”

“Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctne...”

“Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that tha...”

“In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems el...”

“National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.”

“I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a white tux, and I thought, 'That would be good. To be the only man on stage in a white jac...”

“I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mat...”

“In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun mo...”

“I didn't have the kind of budget to compete with the big studios, therefore I had to make my films more outlandish, more outrageous.”

“Growing up in Oakland, we did things like white t-shirt, blue jeans and Nikes. That was my get down, how I was going to rock. And if you look at me right now, I'm pretty much black tee, blue...”

“I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off.”

“In former times, I watched the time of times. Now, in my early ages, I love to protect my destiny, my testimony and my great reward.”

“Ruining someone else's life for attention or revenge should also come with a price.”

“I want people to know that I'm a force to be reckoned with.”

“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”

“I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.”

“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.”

“God has always worked wonders through his prophets to increase the faith of His chosen people or to correct their disobedience.”

“Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.”

“Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom.”

“Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath m...”

“If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.”