Every accepted public quote

“I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.”

“There's no way Daniel Bryan can beat me in a Royal Rumble match. It's ridiculous. He's nowhere near as heavy as me; he doesn't have a fraction of the strength I have. There are a lot of ways...”

“It's easy to hurl abuse at those awards ceremonies like the Oscars and all that, which we tend to do. We tend to vent our anger at things which we feel are unjust or undeserving. But when yo...”

“Knowledge is not power. You may know many things, but without influence you can't do anything.”

“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

“But what if you're wrong? What if there's more? What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for? What if you jump? And just close your eyes? What if the arms that catch you, catch you b...”

“So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.”

“I think 'lunch' is one of the funniest words in the world.”

“Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.”

“I always felt in my band and in the pop-rock format that I wasn't weird enough, that I wasn't standing out enough. Wearing things to get people's attention - I didn't want to do any of that....”

“Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.”

“If it weren't for the fellow union members and leaders who have my back, the barons of the TV industry would happily pay me a nickel a page and spend what would have been my residuals on mor...”

“The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carr...”

“I feel like I turn into my grandma when I'm pecking away at Twitter. And I don't care.”

“George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.”

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”

“Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.”

“Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.”

“But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.”

“Mermaids are just the most whimsical, mystical creatures of all time.”

“Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.”

“Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years bef...”

“Tully was the first young, handsome, cocky, well-dressed bad guy. He was our version of Ric Flair before I knew who Ric Flair was. This was before cable TV or any of that, and Tully was our...”

“A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or use...”

“Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.”

“For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.”

“President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.”

“We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”

“Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder befo...”

“I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.”

“Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup cont...”

“My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.”

“Through the outreach that I have done, through platforms, I hope to unify Singaporeans because at the end of the day, Singapore is our home. We share a common destiny, and I think all of us...”

“Lady Ponsonby was right. The forbidden fruit isn't shaped like an apple. It's shaped like a banana.”

“I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.”

“The core plot of 'Mercury' is so gripping that when I thought of making it as a silent film, it only made it more interesting. Once I finished writing the first draft, making a silent film t...”

“The September 11th, 2012, attacks on the State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya, is important and should be studied because in the big picture, it represents a failed foreign policy th...”

“The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to b...”

“The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.”

“To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you ge...”

“I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.”

“Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.”

“Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. On the downside, you meet a lot of really bad people in...”

“Forget about style; worry about results.”

“Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.”

“On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, we had the terrorist attack...”

“It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.”

“I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.”