Every accepted public quote

“As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true religion of C...”

“Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in m...”

“More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.”

“I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.”

“The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the gospel.”

“Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country.”

“In 2006, after 12 years being separated away from my family and then seven years knowing that they were dead and them thinking that we were dead, we reunited... in the most dramatic, America...”

“Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do...”

“No president can force shuttered mills to reopen, or companies who've left in search of cheaper labor to relocate to the United States (or those who have come back to choose expensive humans...”

“We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. N...”

“Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.”

“Not by any means do I think that I'm The Rock or Mark Wahlberg. I understand that I'm not like them, being a leading guy, but I'm a great comedy sidekick, and, who knows, I can be in the X-M...”

“The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.”

“I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.”

“Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.”

“My mother was born into a segregated America. How crazy is that?”

“My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and c...”

“The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriatene...”

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

“The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.”

“'Mister' film is about the travel of a young and love-giving guy. He is born and brought up in Spain. He comes to India and gets into a trouble while trying to help someone. This story is ab...”

“All human creativity depends on something deeper than itself.”

“SummerSlam is always huge. I look at it like it is Wrestlemania.”

“In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.”

“No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.”

“It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter...”

“I'm one of those pesky Brits.”

“Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.”

“My first introduction to South Africa's struggle for freedom came when I was just 17. I had volunteered to speak in my mother's stead at a United Nations forum on South Africa because she wa...”

“Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.”

“The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.”

“'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I wa...”

“Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.”

“No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are, we all have the ability to take advantage of this amazing and wonderfu...”

“It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm...”

“I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.”

“A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when...”

“It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.”

“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.”

“I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.”

“We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.”

“Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and...”

“One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.”

“When I first played Othello, a reviewer absolutely slaughtered me.”

“Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.”

“Every time I'm recognized in public, I'm super grateful and appreciative, but I also get hot and nervous.”

“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.”

“It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.”