Every accepted public quote

“Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.”

“Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.”

“An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.”

“If you're you, it doesn't matter if you're the most boring person in the world: someone will like you. You're not trying to be anyone else.”

“Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.”

“For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.”

“When I sing, I go somewhere else. Every time after I sing, I'll ask, 'Did I do OK?' Because I feel like it's like my soul squeezing out of my vocal chords. I don't sit there and think about...”

“When it comes to 'Glee,' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.”

“Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is...”

“In the '60s, I sat with my dad in frozen Wrigley Field at Bears games.”

“I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.”

“I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a...”

“If I were in charge of the Olympics, I would probably try to put something for the javelin guy to aim at. Not just length, but see if you could spear something.”

“Corsets were a challenge in 'Belle;' fake nails tripped me up in 'Blackbird.' Guess I'm not a mani type of girl!”

“The days of noblesse oblige are long behind us, so our elite's entire claim to legitimacy rests on theories of equal opportunity and upward mobility, and the promise that 'merit' correlates...”

“magine a bowl. This bowl has been still for a very long time. It is completely full, and it seems like the water that fills it is completely still, totally pure. Still ... If we were to look...”

“Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in...”

“I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had...”

“I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!”

“Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”

“That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not...”

“Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.”

“All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.”

“Being a mom to my son has taken precedence over everything in my life, and I think that's the order it should be... It's a great challenge that I don't think's ever gonna stop.”

“Everyone knows Earth, Wind & Fire. We know 'September,' all the big sort of hits from going out and dancing and stuff. When I was developing St. Lucia, I really started listening a little bi...”

“The winds of change blow over the sea of hope as we ride the heavens high above. Forever searching for the isle of dreams, forever looking, forever scanning the horizon. But for most of us,...”

“Men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfather...”

“It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.”

“We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman...”

“I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if th...”

“Mortgage insurance stocks remained depressed through the end of 2012 amid lingering uncertainty as to whether they had sufficient capital to absorb losses on delinquent loans originated befo...”

“Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.”

“Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.”

“Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.”

“For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.”

“I always want to be a part of ensembles. Besides it feeling safer, I think it's a more fun environment to work in. To have a bunch of people collaborating on something, it takes the pressure...”

“With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.”

“Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.”

“Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.”

“My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.”

“So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolid...”

“The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.”

“I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.”

“The entire world with all its hundreds of planetary systems could go to hell at that moment.”

“When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.”

“A lot of scientists on Earth think of things that they could do in zero g. Things like the way metals cure, for example, and the way fluids react in space can tell us a lot about some of the...”

“Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big...”

“Passion and strife bow down the mind.”