Every accepted public quote

“The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.”

“His hands worked magic but his heart was cold as ice.”

“You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.”

“The Obama administration made it illegal for me to loan any money to anyone in the military. I have one compliance guy just for a pawn shop. It's everything from Homeland Security, FBI, the...”

“I'm not courting death; I've far too many books left to read.”

“Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a f...”

“Spike Lee is not the first name you would probably think about redoing 'Oldboy.'”

“The most moving parts of 'Real American' come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of her childhood that convinced her from...”

“To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.”

“Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.”

“I sometimes apply eyeliner - Giorgio Armani Smooth Silk Eye Pencil in #1 Black - and smudge it with my fingers really quickly to give it a little lift, almost a cat eye. It's all about givin...”

“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.”

“To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.”

“Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision...”

“Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor mo...”

“Rarely do political contributions lead to direct quid pro quo transactions - donations for votes - and those that cross this line normally get caught.”

“When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.”

“Great players are very good technically, but they also have a huge amount of character because, without it, you will never get to see that great technique because it vanishes under pressure.”

“Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Ar...”

“I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.”

“Mathematics is not just a subject of education system, it is the soul of education system.”

“The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love to wear, it's almost a full overlap on the Venn diagram, which is unfortunate for me.”

“Always trust the process. I'm a firm believer in that. You know, you keep your eyes on the destination, and of course there will always be detours, but if you're moving towards it, you will...”

“We need a Supreme Court justice who will restore fairness, balance, and independence to the highest level of the judiciary. Based on his record, I do not believe Gorsuch would be that kind o...”

“Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to play a different Haydn piano sonata each day - they are inexhaustible treasures.”

“Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the dif...”

“We all want love. We all need love. And no matter how much we push it away or pretend to deny ourselves of it, our hearts will always desire it.”

“When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.”

“A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.”

“Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.”

“When they arrived at the palace she had a word with Grant, the young footman in charge, who said it was security and that while ma'am had been in the Lords the sniffer dogs had been round an...”

“I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me f...”

“The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.”

“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.”

“When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow.”

“Good heart fuels good work with the head.”

“Times will change for the better when you change.”

“Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace...”

“In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proport...”

“It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.”

“Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of...”

“There's a tacit understanding among clubs that a good player shouldn't miss out on the big break of his career or a chance at exponentially improved earnings.”

“I wake up. If I have a rehearsal, I go do that, and when I come back to the hotel, I sit down and turn on the laptop, 'cause I've got nothing to do without that!”

“When you're ready, nothing can stop you. If something's stopping you, you're not ready.”

“I am 1324512000 seconds old. In the cosmic blink of an eye, I will become once again cosmic dust.”

“A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.”

“I was asked to do an ad campaign for a supermarket once. I was baffled. It's strange when you realise your popularity or reputation is a marketable commodity; it's a stock, a currency.”

“Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.”