Every accepted public quote

“Silence is an ornament for women.”

“From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he...”

“There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisd...”

“The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.”

“Aditi is a comedy superstar over in India. She's only one of three female English-speaking comedians in India.”

“There is no courage without faith. There is no love without hope.”

“I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in peo...”

“As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a...”

“A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.”

“We are all addicted to something whether we admit it or not.”

“When 'Teen Vogue' started out, 'Teen Vogue' was an aspirational fashion magazine for fashion lovers. You know, it was the little sister to 'Vogue.' And over the years, we've realized that ou...”

“I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because...”

“I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.”

“Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?”

“My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrass for a moment but not asking a question is embarrasing for a life time”

“The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.”

“In our culture the way women have been represented in American film had a pretty big impact on my self-esteem and I'm sure it did on a lot of other girls. I think they have a greater psychol...”

“Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.”

“Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.”

“For it is in giving that we receive.”

“I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.”

“Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.”

“It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.”

“I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.”

“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”

“Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant. And it always feels good.”

“If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.' and 'Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you...”

“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”

“I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the gre...”

“I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.”

“But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.”

“I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.”

“Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.”

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.”

“If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new poli...”

“I didn't know other children from divorced families, and I was a bit of a lost soul for a while. Then suddenly, I was performing. And it gave me an identity.”

“When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personified by Mel on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'”

“After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.”

“Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude co...”

“Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.”

“Parts win prizes, not actors.”

“I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.”

“I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.”

“Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the...”

“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.”

“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.”

“The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.”

“More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.”