Every accepted public quote

“The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.”

“The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.”

“Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.”

“I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist is fluid. If you look at a painter's work, a lot of times, it's similar in style, but other t...”

“I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It...”

“The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organ...”

“How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own...”

“In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.”

“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”

“The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.”

“Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.”

“Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.”

“I like people who are achievers.”

“Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.”

“A mountain is not nearly as much a wonder as a mosquito.”

“Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.”

“I loved the bootcamp and the training. It was the actual Navy and the structure after it that I realized wasn't for me because they're building soldiers. It's a system, and you can't really...”

“My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.”

“I do like sci-fi, absolutely. I've watched everything from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to 'Terminator' - the list goes on and on.”

“Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.”

“I feel like a turtleneck dress that's long-sleeved and covers your entire body but is tight fitting is so much sexier than boobs spilling out, you know? So I guess I'm more into being classy...”

“I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.”

“Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year colleg...”

“I'm the greatest game-spitter of all time. I talk about the swell, the block, the 'hood. I'm a street commentator. I narrate how people live. That's E-40.”

“Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.”

“I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every...”

“Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just...”

“The habit of losing small battles gives way to losing the big ones. Failure can be permanent only when we fail to notice the regularity at which we are failing. Don't give-up. No opposition...”

“My parents worked and sold and hustled; they were gone from the morning, and I pretty much took care of myself. But in a Korean household, you're always eating with your family no matter wha...”

“I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd ever be offered a record deal, and to get a Christmas No. 1 would be huge for any performer, let alone an ex-footballer.”

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”

“I'm a builder. I build ideas and give them to the people, and they receive them in such a wonderful way.”

“The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money.”

“This is not a race to get to a closing. This is an experience that begins with understanding the needs of every client and developing the individualized steps for each situation.”

“Be soul-conscious not self-conscious. Self-consciousness is egocentric and soul-consciousness is spiritual.”

“Expand your mind to expand your soul. Through ideas you travel your infinity.”

“The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.”

“If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty nob...”

“In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.”

“I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.”

“From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, s...”

“Anguish is the universal language”

“I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.”

“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.”

“At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five cardio intervals thrown into the mix. I put a lot of emphasis on core strength and flexibil...”

“It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”

“Five or 10 years from now, people are going to be sitting around going, 'Wasn't there a show about four fat guys in a pawn shop?' And I am sitting on this really nice piece of property on La...”

“When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.”