Every accepted public quote

“Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing.”

“I'm quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely.”

“It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.”

“It's definitely fun when you're able to translate your practice into the game. It's fun, and you know that your hard work paid off.”

“I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.”

“I think Governor Romney has a two-part budget plan that very much levels with voters far more so than any candidate in my lifetime.”

“We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.”

“Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.”

“Now, as an astronaut, I have to bring a Sharpie with me everywhere - so I have a pen to sign autographs.”

“It's really mind-boggling to me when I think about where I started and where I am now. It's kind of insane.”

“About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.”

“Part of being a pop star is image. I'm told by many of my female fans that I was the poster on their bedroom walls. But if I only had that - the image and the beauty and the curly locks - I...”

“I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.”

“How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.”

“Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.”

“I'm not an angry person. I get my point out, I'm true to what I believe, and I sleep well at night.”

“I was raised by vegan parents, and we ate out of my backyard garden for my whole life.”

“I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore...”

“There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.”

“In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.”

“In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the...”

“From my vertical, people, especially men, don't realize what clothes can do for their self-esteem, the way they see themselves, their confidence.”

“The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.”

“I have a great passion for boxing. I have family members who are boxers.”

“Watu wengi hawana maarifa kwa sababu ya elimu na utajiri. Hawana elimu na hawana utajiri. Nchi iwape wananchi wake kila kitu isipokuwa ujinga na umaskini.”

“For me, New York has always been a city of unpredictability. You can never guess what's going to happen next.”

“I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to do most of all: to be a contributor to the success of an organization that he was a player that...”

“It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.”

“Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large...”

“We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.”

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

“To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.”

“What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens...”

“Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.”

“The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.”

“I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instinct...”

“We have police stations for the poor but CBI, CVC and CAGs for the rich with nearly nil recovery of ill usurped wealth.”

“I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.”

“Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.”

“When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.”

“Updating passwords and changing them all the time is something I'm involved in.”

“The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.”

“Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.”

“Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.”

“I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpo...”

“Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.”

“A smile has the potential to speak many words with just a small gesture.”

“Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war...”