Every accepted public quote

“To be happy about the fall of one powerful man is to know there are another 10 that need to follow.”

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”

“In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjo...”

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”

“Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.”

“One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced...”

“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I beg...”

“There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and...”

“It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.”

“Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”

“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.”

“Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”

“Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me.”

“Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”

“When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.”

“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”

“Inspiration comes of working every day.”

“In the U.S., those requesting a Green Card must take an oath that they will fulfill the rights and duties of citizenship.”

“But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.”

“Ego is like the muddy water that weakens the lucidity and judgement of even wisest man. ~Dr Gorakh Bobde”

“I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.”

“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”

“I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.”

“Respect your privileges and understand your rights.”

“I don't have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothes and putting nail polish on.”

“I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn't get so d...”

“If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world bel...”

“Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.”

“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”

“Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.”

“To be busy is man's only happiness.”

“Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories...”

“We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the...”

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

“The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty chil...”

“So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words....”

“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inau...”

“When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.”

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely...”

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

“Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things. Funny ironing board covers - I hate...”

“We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.”

“Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.”