Every accepted public quote

“He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in the gutter”

“Valentine's Day is definitely one of those days where it's either awesome or it's a downer.”

“America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'”

“I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.”

“The quarterbacks who are picked in the first round and are declared - and I don't like the word - busts, it's not that the scouts were wrong about their ability or their potential. But commi...”

“I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.”

“I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.”

“Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.”

“One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.”

“Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, ca...”

“It's up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.”

“I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember i...”

“Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.”

“For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.”

“IoT could also mean seamless critical and elderly care.”

“To wear this shirt, especially with the West Ham badge on it - it takes an honest player, hard-working, a player that leaves everything on the pitch and plays for the crest on the shirt.”

“My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.”

“I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addic...”

“Music and the WWE go hand-in-hand.”

“Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.”

“Man lives for science as well as bread.”

“I'll spend about an hour and a half working out: mobility, activate whatever muscles, a full-body session every time, some full-body exercises and some upper-body exercises.”

“I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.”

“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”

“I've met with titans of Silicon Valley because they're investing in our national expansion. I've had lunch with Claire Danes because she sees DonorsChoose.org as the best way to help student...”

“Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running wat...”

“I played at being someone else in movies and live theater, and at being myself in life's most intense, fascinating game - the game of love.”

“I'm tired of playing the brat.”

“I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.”

“I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.”

“Interestingly, although the 'Books of Blood' were greeted with cries of righteous horror - and smirks - I didn't think of them as being particularly excessive. God knows what I did think was...”

“The cost of leadership is self-interest.”

“A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace th...”

“MySpace is just spam central. I mean, every day I just get mail inviting me to gigs that are nowhere near Los Angeles!”

“I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like,...”

“It is your own faith that you will stand firm.”

“As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights,...”

“Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.”

“Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is...”

“Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland f...”

“It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.”

“Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have...”

“My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We calle...”

“I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that I keep returning, for she is my spiritual hom...”

“I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft an...”

“Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.”

“First and foremost, energy efficiency is a major lever for reducing CO2 emissions along all parts of the energy chain - from the production of resources all the way to final consumption.”

“If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.”