Every accepted public quote

“I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever...”

“All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.”

“Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever coul...”

“Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.”

“The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.”

“The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious e...”

“We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.”

“Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.”

“Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.”

“No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.”

“In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise...”

“We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn't mean it's not. It's always a possibility that in...”

“Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.”

“I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.”

“Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.”

“Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.”

“Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding -...”

“My ship came in,then it sank!”

“The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.”

“I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.”

“I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job”

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicit...”

“I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful a...”

“The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.”

“My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.”

“We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.”

“'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to br...”

“I get a lot of comparisons to Daniel Bryan, and trust me, I am flattered by all of them because we mentioned New Orleans and WrestleMania; I watched it at home and watched Daniel Bryan in th...”

“I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.”

“When I moved to Bengaluru to study law, I was looking forward to joining a theatre troupe.”

“Thank you... fat dude with giant headphones on the subway, for looking like what would've happened if Jabba the Hutt mated with Princess Leia.”

“There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.”

“The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.”

“There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”

“I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistress of somebody.”

“I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.”

“When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before th...”

“Great dangers give birth to great resolutions.”

“It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copyin...”

“Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to the...”

“You want educated women if you are going to have a modern society.”

“When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I'm naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine.”

“First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of.”

“I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.”

“It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don't celebrate my humiliations and my insults.”

“I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. So, I believe I said I wanted to be a...”

“I will tell you flat out that I continually find Yelp and products like it to be increasingly worthless to me as a consumer.”

“Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, sup...”