Every accepted public quote

“It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes t...”

“Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.”

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by p...”

“The Anthropocene marks severe discontinuities; what comes after will not be like what came before. I think our job is to make the Anthropocene as short/thin as possible and to cultivate with...”

“How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.”

“A man who proclaims he fears nothing, has never tried to take candy from a baby.”

“Patrick Dempsey will forever be known as 'Grey's Anatomy''s McDreamy.”

“Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.”

“To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.”

“Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. D...”

“Artificial intelligence will not destroy this planet, irresponsible human intelligence will.”

“I want to prove every day that liberal talkers can be successful at business.”

“Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.”

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

“You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.”

“I only move forwards, never backwards, darling.”

“In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.”

“To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.”

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”

“Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to...”

“Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.”

“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”

“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!”

“anything is possible but probably not that”

“Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.”

“You can't just make me different and then leave”

“Abortion is clearly wrong.”

“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the g...”

“When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem. There's no sense in alienating your entire workforce...”

“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they pai...”

“Obviously, when you're doing fitness work at a club all week and every week, it's all about specific drills for what you need to do on the pitch. So I'd be doing a different drill to the cen...”

“It's not how you die. It's who you die.”

“I'm a character actor.”

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

“Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did s...”

“You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and...”

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

“I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'”

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A cho...”

“It is not a matter if you fail, but how well you fail.”

“Tony Blair is an extremely popular figure in North America. His memoir is refreshing, both for its candour and vivid portrayal of political life.”

“There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles aroun...”

“The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.”

“Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you.”

“A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.”

“A positive attitude is more important than skills.”

“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”