Every accepted public quote

“... we he talks to you, he makes it seem like you're the only person in the world even when it's only polite chitchat. And I can't even blame him, because it's not pretense; it's just being...”

“The basic idea of email has remained essentially unchanged since the first networked message was sent in 1971. And while email is great for one-on-one, formal correspondence, there are far b...”

“Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can't even imagine a world without her - He loves her.”

“The States is run by the Federal Reserve, an institution that answers only to itself and to a few large banks. It's modelled on the Bank of England. Ben Franklin said that one of the main re...”

“When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound in your past. There's a shortcut to emotion...”

“We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to o...”

“Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away,...”

“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”

“That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.”

“When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot.”

“The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you...”

“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.”

“Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has helped make actors raise their game. They have to.”

“My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing 'When a Man Loves a Woman' to the bride. We'd do it right before the garter ceremony.”

“Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plasti...”

“There are women who gave birth to children & today are fighting or competing with those children. There are women who trade their children for plate of meal ,a roof over their heads or bottl...”

“You know you have ADD when Look A chicken - T-shirt”

“I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to...”

“The decisions you make when you leave school define the rest of your life. So, in terms of making the right choices for your financial security as you get older, my best advice is to do some...”

“A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.”

“Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.”

“I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather,bright and sunny forever.”

“Sometimes I've made mistakes and not really listened to my instincts, and I've done a project, and I've been disappointed with the consequence, I think, as a consequence of not listening to...”

“I never panic when I get a wasp at my ear. As soon as you strike out, they'll sting you. So just stay cool.”

“Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.”

“It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.”

“It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.”

“The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it wa...”

“As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door...”

“I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has t...”

“I normally try to be tranquil on the pitch.”

“I'm an American songbook guy, though I've got eclectic tastes. I really love the American songbook. I've taken up the ukulele, and so you can play 'Five Foot Two' and Hawaiian music, but you...”

“The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.”

“I would only create clothes myself if I felt I could do something really different - create a new style subculture for my generation - and that is very ambitious.”

“Religion has no power if God is not truly 'dangerous,' but religion also seeks to manage God, and make God safe. The second commandment speaks against the management of God. We cannot help b...”

“There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any o...”

“The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.”

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

“Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.”

“All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.”

“Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.”

“My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.”

“I'm concerned with the future. I'm concerned with my life, my present, my friends, people I love, people who love me. I have no intention of taking on a legacy that wasn't bestowed on me.”

“Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the question of them maybe selling more books, I think that there's a real problem in trying to int...”

“When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.”

“The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.”

“I read good. I was an English major.”

“When the International Trade Centre, the agency I head, works with German electronics giant Bosch to help Kenyan food processing companies boost their productivity and export competitiveness...”