Every accepted public quote

“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”

“Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”

“My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.”

“A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels o...”

“I'm more interested in being good than being famous.”

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

“What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think abou...”

“I cut the feet off of a pair of panty hose and it allowed me to wear a pair of great strappy sandals. I didn't see lines but the hose rolled up at my feet - and that's how Spanx born.”

“The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”

“All human males were as fascinated with cars as they were with breasts.”

“Great things truly have small beginnings.”

“If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.”

“John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music.”

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”

“I really want to work on characters that have a lot of complexity and you don't always get that in comic book movies because they're not character explorations. I have nothing against movies...”

“There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.”

“We were in it together, no matter what was to come, and we would fight for the win. For each other. Until the last whistle blew.”

“I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their ca...”

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”

“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”

“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.”

“Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on. I am attentive to the opportunities and I seize them as they arise. I have full confidence in myself and...”

“A good way to ascertain what matters to you is to imagine the following: You wake up in the morning to the realisation that you have but a day to live. How would you want to spend that day?...”

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“Not to sound like a jerk, but Jane isn't really my type. Her hair's kinda disastrously curly and she mostly hangs out with guys. My type's a little girlier. And honestly, I don't even like m...”

“Along with some of my college friends, I would often bunk classes and drive to Murthal, which is about 50 km from New Delhi, just to have some piping hot parathas. There was this small roads...”

“To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty...”

“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at...”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

“A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)”

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

“On the first day of spring each year, we should toast Mother Nature as the greatest artist of all time.”

“Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.”

“You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”

“England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home a...”

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”

“It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.”

“The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.”

“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an...”

“Progress just means bad things happen faster.”

“Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.”

“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”

“I was in love with him. I knew that much was true. Love was the swelling, hopeful feeling in my chest every time I saw him. Love was the way I could forget about everything when I was with h...”

“When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.”

“At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath of your touch stained my desire. Yea, it was one of those nights where I needed you th...”

“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”