Every accepted public quote

“Stress comes from the fear of the unknown. To reduce stress, love what you do and be who you are.”

“The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily.”

“I find dipping one's toe into all of these people's lives is one of the major exciting points of being an actor. This dilettantism.”

“When you suffer, you are being conformed to the image of Jesus. When you pray, you are being made holy in the image of Jesus. When you quietly serve a person in need, you are being shaped in...”

“I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane... received by the ambassador, by the president of the United States. I should...”

“Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.”

“I do not play by fortuitous means. I plan and prepare and then play my hand.”

“My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.”

“People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.”

“When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that...”

“With 'Into The Gloss' and now Glossier, the reason it was successful was because there were so many like-minded women out there who were also dissatisfied with their beauty experiences.”

“There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplace...”

“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”

“That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the maste...”

“Performing is the craziest workout for me, because I feel like, on the first day of tour, I'm going nuts. Halfway through, I'm just so tired but obviously you keep pushing yourself because y...”

“The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.”

“When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel. It does all sound the same, but what you can find once you go in - it's never-e...”

“If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical...”

“I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.”

“Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.”

“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”

“My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.”

“I'm always asked how my husband is feeling about my success with a note of concern. He feels great. It's not hard to feel good about your spouse making money.”

“Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted...”

“I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a bunch of actors, it's everyone self-consciously having a social experience rather than just ha...”

“Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.”

“Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.”

“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurl...”

“I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pound...”

“All systems in Pakistan appear to be in a haste to achieve something, which can have both positive and negative implications. Let us take a pause and examine the two fundamental questions: O...”

“I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.”

“I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.”

“My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.”

“A woman lives with resentment. Resentment hurts, and it is a throbbing pain that leaves deep scars. Although some of the scars heal, the resentment lingers on. When she kneels to pray, she f...”

“Spirituality has it All.”

“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”

“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.”

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all...”

“Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increas...”

“There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.”

“You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.”

“My grandmother was whip smart as well as an incredible athlete. She played tennis in her sari, cheered on the Indian team in cricket matches, and tried to convince us that her made-up words...”

“I must have a drink of breakfast.”

“For the wages of sin is Death, but the gift of God is everlasting Life in Christ Jesus or LORD.”

“The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jo...”

“As with so many sectors of the economy, technology is transforming the retail banking sector.”

“A lot of times, it seems like social media has devolved into people just yelling at each other and not really conversing.”

“Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.”