Every accepted public quote

“Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.”

“Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful...”

“I recall once seeing a commentary advertised as having been written in prison without recourse to other commentaries and by reliance on the Holy Spirit alone. I doubt whether those last two...”

“And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.”

“I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the...”

“Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.”

“When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.”

“The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.”

“The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.”

“The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement.”

“An oil owner is someone who has claimed ownership of something that has been there for millions of years.”

“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”

“Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.”

“This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.”

“I personally find it difficult to accept that there could be anyone on earth insensitive to the comic abilities of Laurel and Hardy, Sid Caesar, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, or Martin Short. But...”

“If values are woven into the very concept of education, where is the need for separate value education?”

“My mother asks me what round I'd like to win in, and she prays for that.”

“While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dream...”

“Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic ap...”

“I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every...”

“An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.”

“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.”

“I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing.”

“America has granted every wish of black Americans. It has made government the head of the black family; it has integrated the schools and neighborhoods; it has given blacks welfare and affir...”

“When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and tur...”

“I was fortunate to have served in leadership positions throughout my entire service in the Army. I was in my first unit for two or three months before deploying to Desert Storm. I immediate...”

“When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't let the consultants change you,' and I'd always assured them that I wouldn't allow it to happen. But...”

“I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica p...”

“I think people will walk into the Starbucks store and overnight recognize the significant difference between what Starbucks represents day-in and day-out and all the other coffee companies t...”

“Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.”

“I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a chi...”

“According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.”

“I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.”

“We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.”

“People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we...”

“Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.”

“Quickness and momentum. You take the whole last generation of sports, listening to them, even reading about them, watching the games, analyzing them, arguing about them, instant-replaying th...”

“One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.”

“There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to som...”

“The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.”

“You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.”

“I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.”

“I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.”

“At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.”

“I have a beautiful pair of Giuseppe Zanotti black pumps that make me feel like a model every time I put them on. I have a pair of Jimmy Choo flats I would marry, if I could.”

“I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it "content."”

“There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.”

“Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.”