Every accepted public quote

“For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.”

“Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.”

“Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.”

“Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way, all parents are entrepreneurs.”

“What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, peo...”

“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”

“We've found that patterns of site looting have increased between 500 and 1000 percent since the start of the Arab Spring. Now this is a problem as old as human beings. People were looting to...”

“The obvious difficulty that has prevented the study of European culture becoming a part of the regular curriculum of studies is its vastness and its complexity. The great advantage of classi...”

“Doing a me-too business, because it's you - the only person who cares about that is you. The market doesn't care if it's you. The market is pretty much being served. You better have somethin...”

“I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.”

“We should naturally expect that the baptism of infants, if enjoined at all, would have been enjoined in the law which instituted the ordinance of Christian baptism. But this law is silent on...”

“It was enough just to sit there without words.”

“You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.”

“Shrek is the Mickey Mouse of DreamWorks.”

“I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.”

“I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's jus...”

“I am proud of the Fox News Channel.”

“My work ethic is from sports.”

“Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.”

“Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.”

“I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?”

“Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.”

“As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.”

“I feel triumphant when our moms can use Airbnb without their technically inclined kids.”

“Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed o...”

“Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.”

“I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.”

“Robert Frost had a house in Bennington, Vermont, and I had a friend, the poet Mary Ruefle, who was the caretaker of it when it was owned by Norman Lear, the TV producer. She got a grant to g...”

“I never set out to work on the concept of androgyny. For me, it was more about trying to find a wardrobe that would fundamentally appeal to both men and women: Trying to find the right shirt...”

“Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.”

“There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.”

“Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.”

“In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.”

“We're in this incredible age where new brands are making people's lives easier, more convenient, more personalized.”

“Irena had taken to exploring the library at night to keep from going mad.”

“Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.”

“I don't generally read reviews.”

“I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so sm...”

“What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.”

“Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.”

“The scariest thing about 'Roy' was that it was sync sound. So, I had to worry about my diction all the more along with my emotions, acting, and my dialogues. That was very challenging becaus...”

“My brother John loved Big Bill Broonzy, and from that, Angus and I discovered Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy. We could relate to what they were singing about. When a family uproots itself and mo...”

“I used to dream about taking the ball 'round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 196...”

“Years has passed and my eager heart stands. Until we meet again love is an uncertainty that I'll pass. I had all but one to give, this heart of mine that is yours still.”

“So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.”

“With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. [...] Part of you died each year when leaves fell...”

“I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description.”

“If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cem...”