Every accepted public quote

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the...”

“I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.”

“I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM's 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tir...”

“If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.”

“How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?”

“No sane man will dance.”

“There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.”

“I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Witho...”

“China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.”

“It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.”

“In the eyes of the world, Malaysia has become a pariah state, a state where anyone can be hauled up and questioned by the police, detained, and charged through abusing laws of the country.”

“At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.”

“I love football and I believe in fair play, both on and off the pitch.”

“The biggest tragedy we had early on was when Bon Scott died.”

“Marie Curie is in a class all her own as the first female winner and still the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different science categories. An astounding scientist.”

“Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.”

“Every woman should wear make-up. It takes years off. I'm wearing lots of false eyelashes today, and to me, lipstick is the best cosmetic that exists.”

“It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machin...”

“Consider all of the possibilities for positive global progress if we utilized nonviolence as the central value of our culture, encompassing our law enforcement and labor practices, which cur...”

“And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.”

“A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.”

“We have to remember the bigger picture: the U.S.-Israel alliance is too important to be hijacked by political interests or undermined by perceived riffs.”

“Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.”

“Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.”

“One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of...”

“Cinema now can't be just about introspection and atma manthan; such topics won't work.”

“British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.”

“People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.”

“I was so excited to audition for 'The Lord of the Rings,' I knew it was going to be huge. Maybe, by some small chance, Peter Jackson's a 'Star Trek Deep Space Nine' fan.'”

“I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.”

“This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.”

“Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for...”

“The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.”

“I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science,...”

“Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are usef...”

“If resources become scarce, people tend to fight for them. This is increasing the number of people on the move and the number of people forced to move. They're not refugees, according to the...”

“I wore a mullet to the Grammys! I have no fear.”

“I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.”

“The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without...”

“In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.”

“You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl.”

“I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts.”

“There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.”

“I joined the army because I was a very self-sufficient young man. I always wanted to stand on my own two feet.”

“I may never get back to the track. The problem was that I was dominating my event, and the winning became slightly boring. I wanted new challenges, and I've got that on the road.”

“Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding...”

“It feels impossible how much space there can be in this intimacy, how much privacy. And I think that maybe that is what love is. Not the absence of space but the acknowledgement of it, the t...”

“I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come...”