Every accepted public quote

“Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places,...”

“Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.”

“Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything.”

“I like shoes that, no matter where I am, if I see a basketball or tennis court, I can tie them up and play.”

“During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.”

“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is...”

“I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-bas...”

“I have four things to be concerned about: prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma and breast cancer. The rest of my life I have to be very much aware and conscious and do all of the ear...”

“I wear modern... vintage.”

“There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.”

“Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the m...”

“Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrende...”

“One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation...”

“Sleep: the stepchild of Death.”

“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.”

“Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.”

“I love to cook breakfast. I am a morning person.”

“Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.”

“I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.”

“I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.”

“You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason for telling it.”

“A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.”

“I love Armani Face Fabric, Make Up For Ever HD, Rodial Skin Tint and Charlotte Tilbury.”

“A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.”

“'The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion of organic starships.”

“Amazon's capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous corporate bully.”

“Less tension in the Middle East is always a positive, and any drop in gas prices will essentially act as a tax break for consumers going into the holiday shopping season.”

“I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to thin...”

“It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I f...”

“A void devoid of parental love in a child are often filled with love of a stranger”

“I swear to God, like, every day, the majority of my day is sentimental.”

“Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.”

“I really love peace and quiet.”

“I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them.”

“I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.”

“This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”

“It's weird because movie-making, and especially movie theaters, have always been so old-school, and it wasn't until 3-D that a lot of them were forced to have digital projectors and even dig...”

“Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments.”

“Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.”

“Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.”

“There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.”

“A lot of the moments and experiences in 'Warcross' were inspired by specific moments that I remember as an intern working at Disney or having fun with my coworkers. A lot of it is very anecd...”

“As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.”

“It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.”

“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.”

“We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.”

“The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.”

“I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.”