Every accepted public quote

“There are certain rules of logic that science has to adhere to, and there are good reasons for that; faith by contrast ignores all of that outright, preferring to believe whatever makes one...”

“The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days”

“Your mind and soul are the kings of your physique way more than any exercise you do.”

“The woman had gone down on her knees and was shuffling slowly across the cruel ground towards the group of crosses: the dead baby rocked on her back. When she reached the tallest cross she u...”

“I'm a bit multifaceted in the sense that I've got many more than one musical taste. If you think about it, I started out playing in a punk band and ended up doing electro-pop. That was more...”

“Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and...”

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”

“I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.”

“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”

“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”

“When you kiss me, your lips upon mine, your kisses taste so sweet, just like a glass of good wine.”

“To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.”

“As a player, I loved being tackled, whether it was in training or in a game. I took a full-blooded challenge as an invitation to do exactly the same thing to an opponent. I would wait for my...”

“It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.”

“Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going t...”

“Samasource creates jobs in regions where more traditional forms of employment in low-income economies, such as manufacturing, are difficult to scale because of poor infrastructure. In a vill...”

“I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.”

“I'm too disorganized.”

“I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.”

“We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the...”

“I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.”

“I write about love, but it's me wanting to be in love. I've never been in love. I love my mom, my dad. I want to be in love. I think I have to allow myself to get there. I'm just so in love...”

“Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.”

“Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.”

“In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke.”

“Playing with fire Kitten?”

“Never underestimate or mock peace.”

“What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing...”

“My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?”

“If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.”

“It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big...”

“In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.”

“Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.”

“The actions of hedge fund managers in exercising their fiduciary responsibilities to their investors is not the reason why Chrysler is in jeopardy.”

“To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.”

“In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming f...”

“To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'.”

“Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.”

“Whenever someone asks you why you care for a particular person, they've failed to understand that love is charity.”

“What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do without this individuality.”

“It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.”

“I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.”

“Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. 'The Lord of the Rings' is intensely... landscaped. But 'Discworld' is about dialogue, which is one reason why it might be hard to film.”

“I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the 'Gamepocalypse:' the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.”

“I've learned only that you never say never.”

“Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.”

“The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.”

“Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from mater...”