Every accepted public quote

“It is crucial that the House exercises its oversight functions to ensure constitutional accountability of government agencies, especially as the bureaucracies associated with ObamaCare and D...”

“I am a firm believer in slavery.”

“For me to become the highest paid player in the franchise, it was something I didn't anticipate. But I'm glad. I like playing for Cincinnati.”

“Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chao...”

“There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musica...”

“Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.”

“There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.”

“I give thanks for the fact that I can get this stick with a bit of steel nib on the end, dip it in some black carbon stuff, and draw on paper. Now, people did it the same way 2,000 years ago...”

“Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you'll look back on everything you've been through and thank God for it.”

“In the void of your absence, Looking at your empty chair, I always cherished, A dream, an illusion, Someone who is mine, Is not present here, Your arrival, Will wake me up, And break my illu...”

“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity t...”

“If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”

“Nobody in our family's ever recalled seeing my mom and dad speak a harsh word to one another.”

“I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.”

“To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.”

“When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public a...”

“Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I make sure it's of first importance with anyone I'm talking to....”

“As long as we believe the myth, we can never realize the truth.”

“One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.”

“I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.”

“No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can...”

“Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.”

“My hairstylist uses the Bumble & Bumble hairspray, which is the best smelling hairspray there is!”

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”

“I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.”

“And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.”

“New Horizons is a very high-tech, small, roughly 1,000-pound spacecraft with the most powerful battery of scientific instrumentation ever brought to bear on a first reconnaissance mission.”

“Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.”

“A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.”

“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”

“Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.”

“We are increasingly using social media to drive both engagement and commerce. And because we are a commerce platform that integrates content, we believe we have a unique opportunity to make...”

“Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scie...”

“Intelligence and perserverance cannot defeat the purpose of popularity because it can describe a trait of a successful person who is prominent.”

“It's clever, but is it Art?”

“Starting in my teens, I was always standing on the corner near our apartment singing harmony with friends. We'd also go to the park and sing under the bridge near the lake for the echo. When...”

“A cord that remains, always. in many ways...”

“Every musician that dies is the greatest ever when they die. I never heard a David Bowie record in my life. But for whatever reason, he's one of the greatest of all time now. You know why? '...”

“Stop assuming people can read your mind. Communicate yourself.”

“Is this my dream, or the truth? O would that we had met When I had my burning youth; But I grow old among dreams, A weather-worn, marble triton Among the streams.”

“I believe in love at first sight, But I also believe in evolution. Love at first sight is real love, but it's an infant love. As love matures, we meet again and again, and discover new parts...”

“Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.”

“In the big picture, we see WeLive as a huge opportunity, as big as WeWork, for sure.”

“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”

“The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums.”

“Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local level.”

“True is the saying: 'In order to make the world tranquil and happy, the nation must first be well governed!'”