Every accepted public quote

“I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader at a time.”

“No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.”

“Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.”

“A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.”

“I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt tracks to the highest level.”

“So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.”

“You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You...”

“If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.”

“Everybody believed you had to have a big piece of lumber and then muscle the ball over the fence. But by the time I and Hank Aaron - another guy who did it with his wrists - were through, th...”

“But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to...”

“I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a g...”

“I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.”

“Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you f...”

“Something we often struggle with on pictures is the right way to shoot live-action elements that are for an environment that's very complicated from a lighting standpoint. An example is a st...”

“Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.”

“I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps...”

“Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.”

“Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.”

“Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry.”

“All my indispositions have their source in my mind. It is when I am restless and unhappy that I become susceptible of cold, damp, heats, and such nonsense.”

“There, I was hit again with a feeling I'd had rather frequently as of late. Deep in the night, or even in broad daylight, a sense of the transitory would abruptly arise, shocking me, slappin...”

“I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.”

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”

“I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.”

“'LIFE Magazine' decided to do a story about a young actress in Hollywood in 1954. And I made the cover. And I remember that the fellow who was doing the story on me said, 'Listen, kid, I jus...”

“Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.”

“I was 18-years-old hanging out with Mickey Rourke and Johnny Depp at Mickey's club Risk.”

“Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to a football unilaterally, such as adjust the amount of pressure in a ball, without the quarterback not knowing. It would have to be the q...”

“Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious l...”

“As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers.”

“New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.”

“Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.”

“Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to...”

“I want to be there for all those who are left behind in this world, whether it's because they are born poor, born a woman, or born in an area affected by devastation.”

“We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground...”

“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What an educator does in teaching is to make it possible fo...”

“In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize tha...”

“I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.”

“Without love, we got no peace at all.”

“Being brave is what led to three rejections from Yale Law School before being accepted. It led to losing my 2010 race for U.S. Congress, and another failed bid for public office in 2013, thi...”

“Risk arrest Run Play a children's game Hire a sitter Lift baggage Open doors Open a window Open your mind Expand your patience Feel peace Cause excitement Kiss the children”

“Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is...”

“Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.”

“When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.”

“I try firstly to make buildings humane.”

“Some people choose to lose their good friends , Who are good people because they correct them, are telling them the honest truth always , are telling them to do rights things always and tell...”

“In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.”

“His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.”