Every accepted public quote

“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”

“The strength of a nation rests on its future, and its future rests in the hands of its children. True strength is forged in gentleness, guided by wisdom, and steeped in peace. Growing the ne...”

“Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.”

“The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.”

“This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the water of our culture. But mainstream sources - schools, t...”

“I never made a good movie.”

“There's this notion, kind of like unspoken, that you can't live your dreams and be a mom. You can't have a career and be a mom. There's still that preconceived notion, and I reject that.”

“Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.”

“Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from many journalists and commentators when you do so.”

“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”

“Love is the outreach of self toward completion.”

“Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.”

“Our purpose in life leads us to happiness and a sense of calm.”

“Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something...”

“Golf, like measles, should be caught young.”

“Not far from my apartment, within a stretch of no more than 500 feet, there are two doggie gyms where Gotham's canines who aren't getting enough exercise running through the city's parks, or...”

“The more comfortable men are with dealing with their own vulnerability and their own ideas of masculinity and feeling emasculated, the healthier they are. It's a healthy thing to deal with.”

“To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.”

“Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.”

“I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.”

“I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.”

“I'm not a believer in bringing back the draft. But I am a huge proponent of national service.”

“In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.”

“I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.”

“My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.”

“It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.”

“Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fift...”

“In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.”

“If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.”

“People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. As...”

“I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around...”

“Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just ans...”

“Your cocktail shaker can be smooth chrome or hammered aluminum. It must both conduct cold and look sophisticated at the same time.”

“You always pass failure on the way to success.”

“Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we ar...”

“The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.”

“I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.”

“If you look for the bad in your life you will find some, but if you look for the good you will find it everywhere.”

“I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.”

“Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.”

“The approval of the Holy Ghost is what the scriptures call being born of the Spirit”

“They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.”

“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”

“The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.”

“I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.”

“Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.”

“Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.”

“I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superher...”