Every accepted public quote

“As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to touch people for years to come.”

“There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all...”

“My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole fam...”

“[T]he people who are close to Allah worry so much about wasting time that they call themselves to account for every breath they spend - how many of us wonder about how we spend our day, let...”

“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”

“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in th...”

“I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be embracing my mortality. I told him it would keep me grounded - like when pe...”

“Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness,...”

“I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.”

“One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them,...”

“Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.”

“Fighting is less effective than doing nothing.”

“You wouldn't think there was a need for a Coase Theorem, really.”

“We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curi...”

“Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I understand this. It's not my place to presume to tell people where they can live. But perh...”

“Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.”

“Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.”

“I'm really just a country boy.”

“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”

“My missus knows to leave me alone.”

“There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.”

“Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that...”

“Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past.”

“How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.”

“The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligibl...”

“Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!”

“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”

“Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.”

“I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.”

“In our fields, on our fishing vessels, in our factories and our homes, there are people deprived of their freedom and trapped in a life of unimaginable suffering.”

“It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.”

“Our best thoughts come from others.”

“A problem cannot be solved without understanding it.”

“I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.”

“I criticized Nawaz Sharif's personal friendship with Modi, but my point has been that there should be good and friendly ties between India and Pakistan at state level. But friendship between...”

“Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.”

“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slav...”

“Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.”

“When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.”

“Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.”

“I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.”

“I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.”

“Someone did a graphic of me in my jersey, and Jordan, they dubbed him guarding me, and Kanye's face was on both of us. That's my favorite meme of all time - or so far to-date. I'm gonna have...”

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.”

“Companies like YouTube will continue to be tested on their commitment to the mission that made them such popular and profitable websites - providing an open platform to a wide range of ideas...”

“I think models in general have a certain insecurity about themselves because they're known for being beautiful, so they have to prove to everybody they have personality and they are intellig...”

“I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had everything under control. But when I read it as an adult, I real...”

“You whites make all the ammunition.”