Every accepted public quote

“I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.”

“Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.”

“There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.”

“I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.”

“He threatens many that hath injured one.”

“Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with some...”

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn fr...”

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”

“Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in...”

“I love foot rubs, too. I'll take one whenever I can.”

“When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling s...”

“The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and m...”

“Knowledge travels in the baggage of languages.”

“People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of ca...”

“We had great comic mileage in the 'SG-1' episode 'The Swarm,' where Woolsey is running away faster than anybody else.”

“Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.”

“Number one, from a tackling standpoint, we teach strike zone hits, and we want to hit absolutely as hard as we can in that strike zone, and that's absolutely what we call a batter in the bat...”

“To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.”

“You know, I still love the innocent parts of the game. I love hitting tennis balls. I love seeing the young guys do well. I'll still have a lot of friends to watch. I'll miss the relationshi...”

“The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.”

“After listening and getting to know more about you. Also, feeling a deep connection between us that goes beyond physical attraction. I'm beginning to feel for, so much more than the friendsh...”

“We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fash...”

“The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.”

“As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.”

“Love? I make it often, but I never talk about it.”

“As you know, all women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.”

“I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.”

“I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.”

“Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.”

“Irrespective of our foreign policies, for decades, other nations and peoples could see, in the United States, a strong democracy that could maintain social cohesion, welcome immigrants of al...”

“Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even...”

“People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!”

“Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.”

“My mom always taught me to put toothpaste on pimples to dry them out at night. I do that all the time. I don't use anything fancy when I get a pimple. And I never use the same toothpaste for...”

“There's something so zen-like and grateful of just ripping a hot wing apart and getting it all over your face, and everyone's happy. I love that atmosphere.”

“I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.”

“This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in...”

“Listener and reader input is every bit as important as anything any of us can say. We'd be like crazy people chattering in the middle of that empty field that Joe Biden thinks we should stan...”

“There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.”

“But though our heads are crammed with knowledge, our hearts are empty.”

“If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be...”

“One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, s...”

“I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.”

“While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the c...”

“I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.”

“From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business - that was really a breakth...”

“At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 10...”

“I went to see England against Switzerland at Wembley with my dad and brother, too. That was in 2008, Fabio Capello's first game in charge. Jermaine Jenas scored, and we won 2-1. I remember t...”