Every accepted public quote

“There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.”

“I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.”

“The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There's five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in t...”

“It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we...”

“The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.”

“Engaged communication is a pursuit of excellence. Communicating attentively and engagingly is striving to be the best you can be.”

“What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.”

“The sun gives warmth and light to the world and expects nothing in return, not because it is good or bad, but because it is the sun's nature.”

“With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.”

“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists, at least after they had briefly employed it as a 'furniture...”

“Going back to the Byrds and 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo,' when country was kind of getting away from the fiddle and steel aspect, it took some rock & rollers to introduce a new generation to it...”

“People want to be empowered to the point where they can thwart their enemies physically.”

“OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?”

“I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.”

“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”

“In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.”

“I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.”

“Someday, you're going to be someone's favorite author.”

“You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.”

“We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human,...”

“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”

“Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.”

“I gravitate towards monochromes. I always sort of either wear white or black or cream. I really like wearing colorful things as well, but I'm a sucker for cream-colored.”

“Being happy is a matter of personal taste.”

“To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Wester...”

“The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.”

“Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.”

“I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as...”

“I've seen people, where if they have to wait around the set for three hours, and they call you at the wrong time, and they're not ready for you, some people don't like that.”

“I'm interested in the lives of Americans for whom the ways this culture has tried to define itself - that is, self-esteem defined by material wealth - they have nothing to do with that.”

“I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.”

“The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.”

“All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.”

“I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the bla...”

“If you hate one of your own and you don't see any problem. Just know that you are the problem.”

“I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.”

“You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.”

“Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sin...”

“I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was ra...”

“A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people...”

“I have so many ways I can explain the ballroom scene. But the essence of the ballroom scene would be elegance, extravagance, and fabulousness to its 100 per cent. It's a place where you can...”

“The field of AI has traditionally been focused on computational intelligence, not on social or emotional intelligence. Yet being deficient in emotional intelligence (EQ) can be a great disad...”

“Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”

“I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.”

“A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paint...”

“Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an opinion... just says a lot about the state of America. You are allowed to have an opi...”

“No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.”

“My whole life revolved around TV as a kid. I would come home and make sure I finished my homework every night by 8 o'clock, generally so that I could sit down and watch TV from 8 to 10. As a...”