Every accepted public quote

“Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change - should take a closer look.”

“It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like liv...”

“Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.”

“You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.”

“When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins.”

“You ever watch a football game and get totally into it? Why? It's not a real battle. It's just a game somebody made up. So how can you take it seriously? Or, you ever see a movie that made y...”

“Nothing but courage can guide life.”

“The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.”

“War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.”

“Our use of time is a critical factor in whether we will be successful or unsuccessful in the important areas of life. Successful people keep the main thing the main thing. They don't let the...”

“I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.”

“If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.”

“The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.”

“It's not in the mainstream media, but across towns, it is amazing how there are small groups of people getting together and forming artistic collectives - they may not be being overtly polit...”

“My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.”

“I think what we have to do is figure out how to make sure we get the benefits of improved technology and yet cope with the dislocation that it will inevitably produce in certain industries.”

“I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had...”

“Sarcasm is the intellectually poor man's cheap imitation of wit.”

“The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.”

“The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.”

“Small nations have no time for small goals - they have to think big in order to become contributors.”

“When we were making 'Arrested Development,' it was the hardest thing I'd ever done. You know, nobody was watching. We weren't getting feedback. The job wasn't paying very well. But the one t...”

“The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.”

“In advertising, you have a small window to say the most you can. That's what songwriting is. The difference is, you get to put the leaves on the trees and colour 'em in.”

“In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal a...”

“Sen. McCain isn't someone who strikes you as a particularly dynamic speaker. He doesn't seem to like the formality of giving speeches. He clearly isn't too comfortable reading off a TeleProm...”

“Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there.”

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”

“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”

“Love is a serious mental disease.”

“Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or cli...”

“True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”

“Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it i...”

“The distance between two minds is understanding, between two hearts is trust, and between two souls is love.”

“I'm trying to do the paleo diet. No carbs.”

“You have the power to heal the world if you have love.”

“That's the big picture, your self-worth. And your inner peace. Wrap yourself around the idea that you are simply beautiful. You should never look in the hearts and minds of others for your h...”

“If you're holding a championship that means something in the landscape of Japanese wrestling, you're guaranteed to get a huge feature in almost every magazine - you might even be guaranteed...”

“We are firm on bringing the Navodaya schools to T.N. and if need arises we will not hesitate to agitate.”

“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”

“When I got to Central Arkansas, I was a small, slim guy with little chance of playing in the NBA. Then, I went through a two-year growth spurt, and suddenly, I was 6-foot-7.”

“Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track....”

“He offered her the world. She said she had her own.”

“What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.”

“I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.”

“I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.”

“Apology is only egotism wrong side out.”

“There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction bet...”