Every accepted public quote

“If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.”

“Better ingredients, better pizza - it's not a slogan. It's a way of life.”

“You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.”

“There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.”

“I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.”

“I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.”

“I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my...”

“If being a skateboarder were a personality type and not actually an athletic activity, then I'd say I'm a skateboarder. But I don't ride one. I'm a bicycle person.”

“I had physical disabilities as a kid. I had fine gross motor problems, so I didn't have natural dexterity in my hands. I also wore corrective braces on my legs, like in 'Forrest Gump.'”

“You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a sho...”

“In the past, when Jay-Z did 'Best of Both Worlds' with R. Kelly, I thought it was a great album, but the campaign went south because of personalities.”

“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”

“The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with a...”

“You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.”

“The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.”

“All I'll say is if you look at countries where it is - where they are rapidly growing, they're investing in their infrastructure. They're investing in their educations. They are trying to st...”

“Of course I'm happy that I won a Grand Slam. I don't think there's anything that can take away from that.”

“Did I put them in contact with the people to acquire them? Yes. Did I educate them on how to use them properly, and what way, shape, or form, and when, and with what supplements? Yes. Absolu...”

“- had a million things to do today; death would have to wait, - (The Tin Star)”

“Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.”

“Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want patients to receive the best care available. We also want con...”

“Ever since 'Hail to the King,' we've been more cognizant of our chord progressions, our key changes, drama in songs, a lot of dynamics - we've really added a lot of that in there.”

“I don't like a big city.”

“The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.”

“No one in a normal walk of life flies into a new city unknown and unemployed and ends up doing their job on national television a few days later. I love the game, but it's crazy sometimes.”

“She's Devine. She's Magic. And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order for her to believe that about herself. And that's what made her so magically beautiful.”

“Everything was changing. Nothing remained the same. Space had expanded, yet merely rearranged. Time was stretching far too fast and waiting now to snap. If found there is no answer, can the...”

“What if I told you 10 years from now your life would be exactly the same? Doubt you'd be happy. So, why are you afraid of change?”

“Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.”

“I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait.”

“People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.”

“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”

“You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.”

“I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit...”

“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”

“Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect...”

“There's broadcasters that make me enjoy what I'm seeing because of their energy and how they explain what's happening and paint that picture.”

“Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.”

“My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!”

“The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed at civilians by entities other than a state. These kind of attacks can come from the far r...”

“The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all...”

“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.”

“I feel such a connection to 'Violet.'”

“The complement of works, imagining and emotions is faith - not faith in the sense of belief in a set of theological and historical affirmations, nor the sense of a passionate conviction of b...”

“Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved...”

“There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force policies that are used in departments across the country.”

“As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.”

“Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.”