Every accepted public quote

“I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.”

“I stopped with the red meat, let go of turkey and chicken, and then I held onto fish. When we finished 'Wu-Tang Forever,' I felt like I evolved and completely dived into veganism.”

“(Ars longa, vita brevis.) Art is long, life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.”

“I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped peopl...”

“The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument o...”

“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”

“Nelly Furtado has the right idea in reinventing herself.”

“Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.”

“Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.”

“Protecting children at risk of exploitation will always be a priority, and at the other end, safeguarding an ageing population brings its own challenges.”

“When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and...”

“Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.”

“Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.”

“People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic r...”

“I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.”

“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.”

“That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts.”

“Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television,...”

“There's a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It's one thing to learn how to be a great sound designer and become big just on sound design. Especially if you're in the dubstep...”

“With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that ma...”

“The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.”

“In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if i...”

“Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be mor...”

“Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!”

“My dream would be fighting against whoever the WWE World Heavyweight Champion was at WrestleMania.”

“Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.”

“I start the day just with the family. I don't check emails until my commute, and I make sure my phone isn't close to me until I'm out the door.”

“Prayer is as precious as pearls.”

“Twitter is the new rock magazine of the modern age. When I was a kid, we had magazines and journalists and interviews and articles and pinups and posters to follow our favourite artists. Now...”

“My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads.”

“I'm not the geek in the family: I'm the organizer. But what I do know is that we have a very terrific team of consultants, former federal cybersecurity experts who are working with us to mak...”

“I think when you go to Hawaii, you'll notice the ambience, and you'll notice everyone is friendly because we all kind of think for each other.”

“I don't consider myself to be incredibly confident, or really lacking in confidence. When you're on Jonathan Ross' or Graham Norton's show, inevitably there's something to sell. And there's...”

“I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rule...”

“I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you.”

“When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.”

“Thom Browne is like a wizard when it comes to clothes. Even though his suits are so shrunken, they feel like pajamas.”

“Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It'...”

“In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.”

“My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband and my kids absolutely come first, so work is just something where I figure...”

“In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, wa...”

“I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama that I sort of fictionalized, and that became 'A Time to Kill...”

“The psychology of performance in athletic footwear and apparel is very real. Most athletes do not say, 'Just give me what works the best - I don't care what it looks like.' They're very conc...”

“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; and those who can do neither, administer.”

“Without truth, time is merely the kingdom of the animals. Time brings progress and humanitarian glory, only if truth walks the nerves of our mind, as we walk the alleys of space - in that wa...”

“Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creati...”

“At Newcastle, I was playing in the No 10 position but also in midfield as a left winger.”

“Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.”