Every accepted public quote

“I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.”

“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”

“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifi...”

“Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.”

“Growing up, I was a big boxing and wrestling fan. I love people like the Undertaker and Prince Naseem: they knew how to make a big entrance!”

“I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later...”

“Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.”

“As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family,...”

“Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor t...”

“I love 'Talking Smack.' It is so much fun. We just literally go out there and say whatever we want. Somehow, it's never planned, but somehow I end up bickering with Daniel Bryan every single...”

“If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.”

“Who except the gods can live without any pain?”

“When chefs like Wolfgang Puck became household names, that became a compelling reason for an intelligent young person to go into the cooking profession. There have been no waiters who have t...”

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”

“Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin were such a close second. My first concert ever was the Rolling Stones in D...”

“And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to...”

“I'm an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.”

“The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.”

“All our lives we redefine ourselves as we mature. Why stop now? Keep on living!”

“America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.”

“After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and...”

“It is cool to see that the fashion world has really taken to 'Instagram,' but, again, it is one of the many examples of many communities, whether you are a chef, a skateboarder, a surfer, a...”

“In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.”

“I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.”

“If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.”

“It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.”

“Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.”

“As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had bee...”

“I was at Stanford University up in the West Coast Bay Area, so the biggest song of my freshman year was 'I Got 5 on It' by Luniz, and the 'I Got 5 on It' remix was the joint that everybody w...”

“I am going to be happy regardless where I am at as long as I am playing basketball with some guys that have the same common goal that I have, and that is to win.”

“I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technolo...”

“I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.”

“I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.”

“We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.”

“If I could chat with anyone, it would be Claire Messud, because I think she could tell me how to get better as a writer as I age.”

“No one did more singlehandedly to smash the BNP in Britain than me.”

“I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.”

“The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no longer afford to live in 'middle-class' school districts.”

“If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.”

“But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line f...”

“The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less - and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable i...”

“In earthly life, a person can conceal whether evil or good is active in his soul. After death, this is no longer possible. The spirit form presents after death the physiognomical expression...”

“I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.”

“Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitiv...”

“I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.”

“Lot of companies are looking for advisory work on business strategy, restructuring work.”

“I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.”

“I grew up Methodist and went to church until my parents gave up on religion when I was nine.”