Every accepted public quote

“Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.”

“Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.”

“None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.”

“This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremendous frustration. Did you ever notice that while men often refer to their wives as best fr...”

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.”

“'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's...”

“My parents are musicians. I was listening to the radio and recording songs off the radio on cassette tapes and playing guitars and pianos. Just emotionally responding to music from a very yo...”

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

“I wish I knew why I am so anguished.”

“I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects o...”

“The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.”

“At Tennessee, I said I can't wait to beat Florida in the Swamp and sing 'Rocky Top' all night long. The thing at Tennessee I felt was that there needed to be energy in the program immediatel...”

“Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped.”

“With such a rigorous schedule, it's important that I do everything I can to maintain my health and wellness.”

“The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.”

“Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many...”

“Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.”

“As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.”

“Being a nocturnal creature myself, I often find myself in dark alleys or strange places late at night. If there were werewolves around, I'd be likely to run into them, being the night owl th...”

“One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and...”

“It's truly a new day ever since we graced the WWE Universe with our presence. Every time we come out there, you see us being funny, having fun, entertaining people and, of course, preaching...”

“As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane,...”

“Age is not a factor when it comes to choosing the kind of roles you want to portray or the kind of clothes you wear for a role on-screen.”

“Whether you're angel or demon I'm in love.”

“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”

“The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008...”

“You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”

“What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.”

“The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.”

“I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.”

“Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.”

“I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.”

“We cannot stay enveloped in our own reality and turn a blind eye to the plight of others.”

“I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.”

“For me, a story begins with music: I feel the rhythm, the cadence, the pulse of the characters and their voices and the setting. Because I had just finished writing a book called 'Black Pota...”

“Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.”

“With hope, we can endure any hardship.”

“You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a...”

“I really only play shooters, which is a nice way to restrict the amount of gameplay in the house.”

“One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.”

“We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a tim...”

“A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.”

“But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.”

“When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear t...”

“Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and unpacked it with Bush.”

“I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they're impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so ke...”

“If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.”

“I wouldn't be the first quarterback from California to go to cold weather. I think Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers are doing pretty well and been able to do it.”