Every accepted public quote

“The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.”

“I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it...”

“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.”

“A high heel elongates the leg and inevitably flatters every figure.”

“My job is to make grown men cry, to blow people's minds and elevate them, make them transcend and unlock emotions that have been repressed by life, their job, situation - that's what I do.”

“Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake.”

“Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes,...”

“I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.”

“I dream about doing a film about once a week.”

“In God, there is no lack and no recession.”

“Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”

“My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.”

“I've always freelanced as an actor, and you always have to worry about the next paycheck. When I booked 'True Blood,' I promised myself I would take advantage of the fact that for the first...”

“We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.”

“Starring Russell Crowe as the Patron of the First Ark, 'Noah' had affronted some Christian literalists with its giant rock men, its weird visions, and the occasionally dark motives of its pr...”

“Music has become something different from the past, when it was one hundred per cent live. Throughout the twentieth century, it was recorded, and the medium adjusted.”

“The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.”

“The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.”

“It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.”

“I have said time and again that the republican order, and secularism, when executed perfectly, are blessings from God.”

“I love coming back to Wisconsin. Lambeau Field is such a special place - a lot different than the old city stadium next to East High School when I first arrived in 1956. The facilities were...”

“That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis f...”

“There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.”

“I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.”

“If the universe is friendly, then it is indeed aware of us and works to help us. So there are no 'unfortunate accidents,' and everything that happens is orchestrated in an elaborate and comp...”

“I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion.”

“It was really beautiful. The mayors of Glovertown and Gambo introduced me, and then I talked to the crowd. In fifteen minutes, we raised more than $700 in a town with less than 3,000 people....”

“Simon Bolivar is the leader of the revolution of this land. He is the leader of the social revolution, the people's revolution, the historical revolution.”

“Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.”

“A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.”

“While Jane Fonda has no shortage of knowledge to share, I was particularly moved and fascinated by her recovery from bulimia, which she battled with for over 25 years.”

“The swaggering underemphasis of New England.”

“As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry...”

“Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest so...”

“No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and amplified through social custom, culture, and popular media.”

“I shouldn't even be here, so if I'm here, I better do something good.”

“It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”

“There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. T...”

“With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.”

“I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many...”

“My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.”

“England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.”

“Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.”

“The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”

“Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.”

“Rather than defining success by the number of people who love us, may we define it by the number of people we have loved.”

“The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.”

“There is that much to be done that no select or small portion of people can do; only the greater mass of the Irish nation will ensure the achievement of a Socialist Republic, and this can on...”