Every accepted public quote

“Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on...”

“The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.”

“You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.”

“'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience.”

“I have so much more to go through as a young lady. But oh my God. I feel like I can do anything.”

“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfact...”

“I studied everyone in the business of entertainment: Dr. Dre, Diddy, everyone. Rob Dyrdek was big for me. He would get 2 million views a week on 'Rob and Big,' and from that sprung everythin...”

“The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.”

“You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.”

“To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to per...”

“We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be don...”

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”

“Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more.”

“There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chir...”

“OK, I'm not what you'd call 'wild.' But I'm no prude, either - I love to party, and I play a mean game of pool.”

“Venture capitalists Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital, Steve Jurvetson of DFJ, and Dave McClure of 500 Startups all left their firms following accusations of misconduct.”

“At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.”

“I'm a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you're able to see both sides...”

“There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.”

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

“It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions - and the degree to which some states discourage reading by instituting draconian rules and laws that try to limit...”

“Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!”

“One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones wh...”

“Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.”

“You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success, but it's not necessarily what makes me an actor. It became a very easy labe...”

“We co-create our reality with others in unseen ways.”

“If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal descript...”

“At some point, extra incomes don't go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through 'positional goods' - like the hottest car on the block. The problem is that there can only be one h...”

“My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!”

“It's against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.”

“You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of l...”

“At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft...”

“Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead.”

“There's actually a song called 'Vegas Lights,' which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas, that represented how I felt when I went to the clubs. I felt this weird energy where everybody was ha...”

“What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.”

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or...”

“We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.”

“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings b...”

“The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.”

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”

“A fact of life is there is tragedy and hope. There is sadness and joy. To ignore one over the other will destroy a person.”

“The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.”

“When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.”

“Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.”

“I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.”

“The enemy of the modern woman is not women who like fashion or are writing about it. The enemy is stereotypes that come from all places and that tell you to be one way or the other. The enem...”

“I learned from the guys before me - Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the...”

“For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's...”