Every accepted public quote

“But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.”

“I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, to...”

“When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.”

“Sometimes you have to put yourself back together and live for you.”

“What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?”

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.”

“The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.”

“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.”

“The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.”

“It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fount...”

“I am certain that my family - my grandmother, mother and myself - had a credit score of zero when we arrived in 1976. There were no credit cards in the Soviet Union, and we didn't have any m...”

“"Only for a great love would he take such a risk."”

“So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all t...”

“I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.”

“Los Angeles has been my home since the days even before Motley Crue, so I am beyond excited that 'The Side Show' has found a home on 98.7 FM. This is the station I listen to - my friends lis...”

“The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.”

“People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.”

“You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.”

“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?”

“Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.”

“I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit ra...”

“When I did the national anthem, I did a soulful, kind of gospel-y version, but it was controversial with the war veterans, just the people who wanted to hear it the old, clinical, atmospheri...”

“Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.”

“Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'”

“I grew up playing basketball in the inner city of Seattle, and by the time I was a senior, I earned a full scholarship to the University of Denver.”

“To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.”

“My parents are still here in Charleston, and I have a lot of family here, so it's great to be back.”

“History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.”

“I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”

“The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.”

“Our long-term economic plan is all about creating jobs and the economic security that comes with that.”

“Me and my sisters were so awful. One nanny, we loved, but we hacked her email and sent her boyfriend lots of weird messages, and we once actually locked her in the toilet, too.”

“I would wear pajamas to work every day if it were up to me.”

“I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presen...”

“The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.”

“Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.”

“A political revolution must proceed simultaneously with the nationalist revolution. When we overthrow the Manchu regime, we will achieve not only a nationalist revolution against the Manchus...”

“I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were...”

“It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.”

“The government of Macau, of China, has been empirical and pragmatic and has brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, a feat unequaled in the history of civilization in any coun...”

“At school, I'd be the dude singing to the girls, always up in the auditorium, in the lunch room singing Christmas carols, in the halls between class. I was always singing, and same thing wit...”

“Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.”

“In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.”

“Even prisoners can escape if they have books.”

“Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.”

“My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not far from Prague, and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis. T...”

“Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you...”

“At the moment, when one feels, 'I can't do it', then today's knowledge shows that, 'I should do this', whereas the past [life] knowledge says, 'There is no need to do this.' What happens whe...”