Every accepted public quote

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

“Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.”

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- writ...”

“Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escape...”

“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is...”

“She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it d...”

“I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the wor...”

“You are in control of how you set the tone of your day.”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“You were not born on earth to please anyone; you have to live life to express yourself, not to impress someone. Don't pretend to be someone you're not, and never lose yourself in search of o...”

“Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.”

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”

“Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.”

“He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.”

“'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all.”

“And out of nowhere there you were, Speaking a language i've heard before.”

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”

“ALIVE With every breath, Every heartbeat, Every moment - I am growing, I am learning, I am living.”

“Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.”

“You know what's lame, Pudge? I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her... I mean, it's stupid to miss someone you didn't even ge...”

“Success takes scrupulous diligence ; to repeat takes strenuous perseverance.”

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”

“When Julia Child was asked to what she credited her longevity, she replied, "Red meat and gin."”

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporar...”

“As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and st...”

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

“All good storytellers study psychology ... Novelists, filmmakers, even actors. You have to know the rules of human behavior before you can make your characters break them.”

“No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.”

“Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.”

“Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.”

“You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?”

“My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.”

“I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which...”

“How do I work? I grope.”

“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.”

“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.”

“Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.”

“The reason Ozil has as many detractors as supporters is he is a bit of an anomaly - an elegant, skilful footballer who at his best evokes memories of the great number 10s from the past, but...”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”

“I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.”

“God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.”

“As long as there's life, there's hope.”

“When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapte...”

“There will be great reason to suspect the Men of jealousy; and it cannot be rash to say, that their only reason for locking up from us all the avenues of knowledge, is the fear of our excell...”

“I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.”

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”