Every accepted public quote

“I just like to sing for people who have lost love.”

“The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.”

“I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by...”

“I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go...”

“They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim th...”

“It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West...”

“I am still not at all in favour of offering any defence. Even if the court had accepted that petition submitted by some of my co-accused regarding defence, etc., I would not have defended my...”

“Regardless of your marital status, your age, or the language you speak, you are a beloved spirit daughter of Heavenly Father who is destined to play a critical part in the onward movement of...”

“The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consume...”

“My Hippy' is filled with futuristic fashion, bright colors, beautiful camera work, trippy effects, and even has a cameo from the infamous 'Sunset Blvd Jesus.'”

“My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.”

“Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone...”

“I have always used my platform to speak about positivity in social media when it comes to pageantry because it is one of the main problems I have experienced.”

“Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are ini...”

“I'm a fan of Ed Norton.”

“We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.”

“The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.”

“In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, b...”

“I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.”

“Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.”

“Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.”

“It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distrac...”

“I've been put up in great hotels from a very young age, so I've been spoilt. What I can't stand is when I arrive somewhere and the room isn't ready. You call housekeeping, and it takes them...”

“Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.”

“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”

“Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.”

“I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn...”

“Is it possible to love someone so completely, so intensely, they could never die? To give them more than just your heart or your soul? What if you could give then the miracle of immortality?”

“I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.”

“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong”

“You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.”

“I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication,...”

“I'm very Aries - every characteristic, good and the bad.”

“There is a certain kind of sobering, civilizing effect that being president imposes on people. There is a certain kind of dignity with which you comport yourself. As an observer of the presi...”

“I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.”

“I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year.”

“I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.”

“Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.”

“The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture.”

“When I rapped for 'Manto', I used cuss words and no one objected because it was an adult movie. I feel cuss words are also a way of expression.”

“It makes me cross when I hear people say, 'It's so last season.' I always say, 'It's vintage.'”

“I think we need to price carbon; there's no question about it. The way we do it needs to be based on science and not political debates and attacks, and that's why I'm drawing on experts and...”

“I like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce - she's a really good entertainer.”

“A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.”

“Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.”

“It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.”

“Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”