Every accepted public quote

“I would say don't take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We're very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner tellin...”

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

“You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.”

“When one is not mindful of their continued misconduct, they cannot discern the distinction between right and wrong; wisdom dictates silence is the best approach.”

“so many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.”

“I know it was raw in some places, and I was a jerk in some places, but that's the way I was, and I was stupid.”

“Unfortunately, my football career wasn't very long. The reason I finished playing was because I fractured both ankles in a matter of months.”

“Know that no friendships or relationships are ended even after a great argument, time is the key to healing, and everyone will come back at some point or another no matter what.”

“Love me, please, I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.”

“I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the...”

“Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. It is the entire cosmos, whatever we can see, touch, hear and feel. Moreover, it is all that is within our perception and all th...”

“I've had the opportunity to see both sides of the human spirit. I've seen those who will put you down, demean you, brand you, and have a one-track mind of destruction. But I've also seen peo...”

“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”

“In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.”

“Procrastinate now, don't put it off.”

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”

“Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.”

“A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.”

“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”

“When you take time to be kind to others-you're being kind to yourself also”

“Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his...”

“Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. ... Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.”

“My whole life I though I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in a goddamned buddy comedy all along.”

“I love scary movies and respect the filmmakers of scary movies, and it's just as hard to make a great scary movie as it is to make a great comedy or drama or anything else.”

“This is who the fuck I am.”

“At birth and throughout our lives we live an unequal existence, but at death, we all become equal”

“Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.”

“When you love someone, they deserve to know the truth”

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”

“When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”

“The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.”

“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.”

“Walking does it for me all the time, It helps my body and also my mind”

“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”

“Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”

“I love how Pilates makes me feel, like it opens me up. I have the hardest time breathing, weirdly enough. Even when I have conversations, I need to work on my breathing, so it's something I...”

“There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.”

“We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.”

“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”

“If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.”

“I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.”

“Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”

“Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.”

“I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.”

“While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.”

“The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.”

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to...”

“Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.”