Every accepted public quote

“It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.”

“Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.”

“I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.”

“The problem with when you look at eBay is that you can put a pair of Jordans next to a frying pan. It's an altogether different experience compared to having some editorial around it and wel...”

“We passed a sign for Boring, Oregon. We never went there, but I was positively enchanted with the idea that there was a town called Boring. 'Gravity Falls' is partially from what I imagine B...”

“Any idiot can put up a website.”

“My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.”

“Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.”

“A lot of people have a great business idea; they just need a little push to make it a reality.”

“I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.”

“I definitely do not think of makeup as, like, a validation type thing. For me, it's a creative outlet and an art form. It's not like, 'Oh my God, I need to feel pretty.' It's like, 'This is...”

“You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.”

“Dance is merging with the more mainstream hip hop/R&B scene, and there will be new ideas and sounds.”

“Science, the agent that once promised to eradicate the supernatural, had, through the nuclear threat, resurrected it. Magic was not exactly alive, but it was surely undead.”

“I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.”

“Irish fathers still have certain responsibilities, and by the time my two daughters turned seven, they could swim, ride a bike, sing at least one part of a Woody Guthrie song, and recite all...”

“I tend to think of Pluto and its moons as presents sitting under a Christmas tree. They're wrapped, and from Earth all we can do is look at the boxes to see whether they're light or heavy, t...”

“Breathing is simple, gracious, soothing and always there for you”

“'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.”

“Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage...”

“Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.”

“We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies wi...”

“I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to sound like 90's singing sensation Tori Amos.”

“Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the curr...”

“Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.”

“In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a who...”

“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”

“With renunciation life begins.”

“Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living.”

“The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don't consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other play...”

“Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.”

“Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.”

“I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game rig...”

“The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”

“A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different moments of your femininity, not just one thing, because everybody can get bored.”

“In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is actually a translation problem because if you see the word sister, y...”

“Very few people can afford to be poor.”

“The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.”

“For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and...”

“Getting in my head and talking trash, that's not going to work.”

“All actual life is encounter.”

“I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.”

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”

“Drug trafficking is an inherently dangerous and violent business.”

“I like bold statements. I'm very nearsighted, and I'm terrible at the whole contacts thing. I figured, 'Why not get some glasses that are fun, that contrast with my skin tone and brighten th...”

“The only club that could lure me away from Dortmund is Real Madrid.”

“When economist William Beveridge dreamed up the postwar welfare state he wanted to fight five 'giant evils' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. Fast forward 65 years and it see...”

“Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields...”