Every accepted public quote

“I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in Europe at the time she was alive. I consider my tributes to him...”

“If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.”

“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.”

“With Facebook's IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly.”

“He had always found hope harder to deal with than despair. Despair didn't get disappointed.”

“Together, Cingular Wireless and Microsoft are working to revolutionize the way people communicate with mobile devices and set a new standard for personal connectivity.”

“It is true that some people have some misgivings about China-U.K. cooperation. What I want to stress is that in today's world, no country can afford to pursue development with its door close...”

“People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.”

“UC Merced is the University of California's newest campus and lies among farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley, 2 1/2 hours east of San Francisco and not far from where I spent most of my ch...”

“when god creat the world,first he must think abour architects”

“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”

“An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.”

“I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.”

“If you've ever tried to keep a diary, then you'll know that the problem of trying to write about the past really starts in the present: No matter how fast you write, you're always stuck in t...”

“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether th...”

“Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, fo...”

“It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.”

“Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.”

“Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.”

“Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.”

“Looking back, she supposed that had been one miracle of their marriage--even if a person was on the brink of swallowing fingernails and the other was thinking deeply about a problem they cou...”

“Fatherhood is great.”

“It's typical for video customers to often use licensed music - whether a soundtrack, background music, or sound effects - to complement their video projects.”

“I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S....”

“I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.”

“As a professional, you pick up ideas from your colleagues and the orchestras you work with, while coming up with mutual interpretations in very short periods of time.”

“Dale Jr. has never gotten a fair shake from the start because, guess what? He's not his father. He was always supposed to have been someone else. The pressure he's under is unreal.”

“Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or lo...”

“I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.”

“In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks...”

“Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?”

“Many foreigners imagine that Latin American cuisine is spicy, but Chilean food, on the whole, is extremely bland: salt, vinegar, mayonnaise, and more salt are the four basic condiments. Blac...”

“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”

“Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Al...”

“In parts of the world where basic infrastructures like paved roads and transportation systems are underdeveloped, people walk for days to reach a health care provider.”

“You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right. And you stil...”

“Day-to-day concerns really trumped big dreams for quite a while in my life. I was so freaked out about money. And until, honestly, I was in my early thirties and made 'Girlfight,' that anxie...”

“Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.”

“Upon closer examination, it's obvious that the history of modern conservative is permeated with racism, extremism, conspiracy-mongering, isolationism and know-nothingism.”

“Most people in AI, particularly the younger ones, now believe that if you want a system that has a lot of knowledge in, like an amount of knowledge that would take millions of bits to quanti...”

“If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.”

“I don't see myself being in the sport a very long period of time, so I want to fight as much as possible.”

“Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.”

“Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.”

“If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts t...”

“In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for...”

“In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.”

“You always do things for others' sake without worrying about yourself or how you feel. But this time I want you to be selfish. It's okay to cry. Just don't shut me out. It's my turn to help...”