Every accepted public quote

“Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.”

“I have wanted to direct for quite some time, but I wanted to be ready and know what I am doing. I wanted to know the basics.”

“One of the least appealing aspects of modern presidential candidates is that, to avoid saying anything that might prove to be an embarrassing, costly blunder, they cling to a rigid set of ta...”

“I have a lovely light blue Kate Spade wallet. It has pockets for many credit cards, business cards, health insurance cards, and a Burke Williams card for when I want to go to the spa!”

“I was in the video for Cyndi Lauper's 'Sally's Pigeons' when I first started acting.”

“My old songs used to take place in Gothenburg; then, when I lived in Melbourne, the songs just naturally took place more in Melbourne.”

“My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be,...”

“I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.”

“The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.”

“It's quite nice coming off doing a dark, upsetting scene. It's a relief that that's over with, and then you can get back to happy old Sophie.”

“When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.”

“More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap with...”

“After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.”

“If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master.”

“The separation of feminine and masculine has torn us into pieces. The balance of feminine and masculine will bring us back to peace”

“The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.”

“I'm sorry, Arty,' she whispered into his ear. 'Sorry for what?' 'For everything. For the last few months, I haven't been myself. But things are going to change. Time to stop living in the pa...”

“I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'”

“I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and mo...”

“There are lots of people in the world who have money. Lots of people in Morecambe have money, let alone the world. And Morecambe is quite a small place.”

“When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.”

“It is so calming, marriage.”

“I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.”

“It's not the average people that come to my show.”

“There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.”

“A functioning police state needs no police.”

“Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.”

“I really like the short stories that Melissa Bank writes. I think she's sort of channeling the female version of J.D. Salinger in more recent days.”

“You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao...”

“We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.”

“The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and compassion.”

“The film I did with Bobby De Niro, 'The King of Comedy' - an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I...”

“I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.”

“The hope that we may one day awaken to a condition of life utterly different from that which we experience daily makes men willing victims of every form of tyranny and suppression. Man is st...”

“Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.”

“India is a good example of a country that has embarked into wind and solar energy production and creating jobs in it. Other countries can learn from India's experience.”

“I spent three years there and encountered great teachers who gave me enough stimulation to last me for the rest of my life - Josef Albers, painter; Buckminster Fuller, inventor; Max Dehn, th...”

“Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vul...”

“Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmen...”

“I just go out and do what I can to help the team win, try and be consistent in having some good at-bats and getting some timely hits and whatnot.”

“I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.”

“I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.”

“Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.”

“If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.”

“Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.”

“The human digestive tract is like the Amtrak line from Seattle to Los Angeles: transit time is about thirty hours, and the scenery on the last leg is pretty monotonous.”

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

“A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.”