Every accepted public quote

“It is not enough to pay lip service to diversity.”

“The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.”

“I'm not a winner, but I was the best player”

“George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I t...”

“The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.”

“Lenin had just reflected that the revolution would never happen in his lifetime when in February 1917, hungry crowds in Petrograd overthrew Nicholas II while the revolutionaries were abroad,...”

“Obviously, I wore a lot of crazy things on stage. That's just how it goes.”

“People are guests in our story, the same way we are guests in theirs. But we all meet each other for a reason because every person is a personal lesson waiting to be told.”

“A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.”

“Parliament's job is to conduct discussions. But many a time, Parliament is used to ignore issues, and in such situations, obstruction of Parliament is in the favour of democracy. Therefore,...”

“The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.”

“Love is A smile that lights up your day...”

“It's cool to have a big record, but it's even cooler for the world to love it and sing along to it in every club word-for-word. It's a real feeling.”

“The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.”

“Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived...”

“We try and try and try then we give it up”

“Always learn poems by heart,' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”

“I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard...”

“I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.”

“America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.”

“Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of.”

“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”

“One might think of investment managers as astronomers and CEOs as astronauts. The two roles are radically different with distinct personality traits. Like astronomers, investment managers te...”

“There's no subtext in 'Harry Potter,' really; it's all magic - anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it. Do...”

“Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.”

“For a long time, I thought, 'I'm not a TV presenter,' but now I realise there's no typical route into this business.”

“Britain rightly sees herself as a global good citizen, but she must reconcile ambition with power, ends with means - shedding utopian idealism in favour of a more rugged internationalism, pu...”

“We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.”

“Making people laugh is easy for me. I'm quite proud of that. But I'm prouder of silencing an audience for a minute because they're thinking about something.”

“When it comes to being in a band or going solo, one is collaborative, and one is not. But generally speaking, when going solo, I am the boss. People can contribute ideas, but I am the boss....”

“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”

“The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activ...”

“A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.”

“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.”

“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”

“In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.”

“God can restore your life. Trust in Him.”

“I like a little Barbra Streisand!”

“There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of or...”

“Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.”

“Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.”

“Because of Iran's support for terrorism, disrespect for human rights, and nuclear proliferation, it has been under U.S. and international sanctions for decades - and companies have been fine...”

“I love you,' Buttercup said. 'I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several h...”

“I also often hear people say that the deck is stacked against them because of racism, sexism, or other oppressive 'isms.' But once you let go of the blame and excuses, you'll see that you ca...”

“The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really m...”

“Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but...”

“Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm beca...”

“My mom was very strict. And we were very religious. So I knew that I was not allowed to do the wrong thing. And I knew that I had a home I could run to. And I had a mom.”