Every accepted public quote

“It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphl...”

“When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Ti...”

“Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

“Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.”

“Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.”

“When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenboroug...”

“No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.”

“Pogba is one of those players who leaves you speechless.”

“In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, h...”

“I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, wh...”

“I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sens...”

“Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent...”

“Oh how easily we forget those of insignificance”

“I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.”

“Education needs to be personalized and flexible, which means education policy needs to originate from our local communities and not from some bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.”

“I do play nice guys. I really do.”

“Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.”

“Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country with quality foo...”

“Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.”

“I think if you're consistent in this league, you'll win a lot of ball games.”

“I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for c...”

“A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.”

“I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.”

“As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?”

“THERE IS ONLY ONE THING WE SHOULD TEACH OUR CHILDREN: TO LEARN BY THEMSELVES.”

“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”

“If any person examines by the microscope that part towards the extremity of the spider's body from whence its thread proceeds, he will observe the spot to be, as it were, surrounded by five...”

“In my experience, entrepreneurship tends to be kind of cumulative, like a layer cake. Taking some time away can make it hard to rev up.”

“There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the lo...”

“Every single member of my Artistry and Pat McGrath Labs Brand Teams - making this dream a reality would not be possible without them.”

“In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the s...”

“I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm havi...”

“Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.”

“I write about what hoaxers do, but I also want us to think about what believers do. Why do we want to believe a story like James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces?' Why did we want to believe...”

“I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.”

“That's the beauty of risotto. You can make it any flavor you want. It's a great carrier.”

“Exchange rate understandings are of little use on their own.”

“Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.”

“It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.”

“The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.”

“My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.”

“If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insigh...”

“States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.”

“Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possi...”

“Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.”

“I've always wanted to pull off 'No One is to Blame' by Howard Jones. I've done that a couple times in solo shows, but I can't figure out how to do that with a full band and make it work.”

“Heart is the creator of miracles, which mind often fails to capture through explanation & logic”

“Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.”