Every accepted public quote

“Good cinema has no regional or linguistic boundaries.”

“I struck upon this kind of crazy idea that I was going to go to New York and stop 10,000 people on the streets and take their portrait and create kind of a photographic census of the city.”

“Our State Senate must lead by example, restore trust and transparency, stop sweeping workplace misconduct under the rug, and do everything we can to protect women who work in and around the...”

“There have been plenty of Republican efforts to go to the extreme scandal zone. Impeaching Bill Clinton was a classic example. Fortunately, the Senate had enough sense to acquit Clinton, and...”

“I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it w...”

“The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.”

“In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.”

“When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.”

“I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their i...”

“I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attit...”

“'Fine casual' means taking the cultural priorities that fine dining, at its best, believes in.”

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.”

“I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I'm very grateful.”

“As a member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee during the 2000s, I met with civilian and military officials in Kurdistan, Libya, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, and Yemen. They shared m...”

“People always make fun of my eyebrows and think that I shape them this way! But if you see a picture of me from when I was two years old, I have the same exact eyebrow shape.”

“I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.”

“Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.”

“Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.”

“It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.”

“It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to...”

“WWE, I'm just full-on Paige, my in-ring character. 'Total Divas' is where I can completely be myself and be my lunatic, weird person.”

“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.”

“I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.”

“The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be...”

“There are a lot of funny motels. There was one motel in the middle of nowhere: it was real plain, but it had a gigantic green monster, something like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, stan...”

“Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.”

“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”

“It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.”

“Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportiv...”

“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.”

“Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is...”

“I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.”

“You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping.”

“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”

“I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”

“Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.”

“That's what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax, it's magic!”

“I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.”

“As a kid, creation was something that I always loved. Creating worlds for video games, creating businesses that didn't make any money, selling lemonade, etcetera. In my fourth grade classroo...”

“People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.”

“I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.”

“Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love;...”

“Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.”

“Like the houses we build, the sky was also a shelter to few.”

“Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tommorrow. Let the stars keep trac...”

“I'll tell you this: Tommy Morrison has a tattoo of Elvis Presley on his butt, he likes to hunt and fish, and his favorite movie is 'GoodFellas.'”

“Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or...”