Every accepted public quote

“You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understo...”

“There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case o...”

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”

“Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.”

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”

“There's just something hypnotic about maps.”

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”

“Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.”

“Goth is dead, punk is dead, and rock n' roll is dead. Trends are dead. Nothing exists anymore because the world is spinning faster than any trend.”

“I've asked myself again and again whether it wouldn't have been better if we hadn't gone into hiding, if we were dead now and didn't have to go through this misery, especially so that the ot...”

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

“You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that wa...”

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”

“Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.”

“I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.”

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

“I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.”

“While there is tea, there is hope.”

“I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I h...”

“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences”

“Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, No...”

“A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.”

“So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”

“What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.”

“My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.”

“The bond between husband and wife is a strong one. Suppose the man had hunted her out and brought her back. The memory of her acts would still be there, and inevitably, sooner or later, it w...”

“All that matters is kindred of spirit.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“Life is not what happens to us is how we react to what happens to us.”

“I am the problem myself, I am the solution as well. I am the defeated myself, I am the conqueror as well. I am the atheist myself, I am the believer as well. I am the life myself, I am the d...”

“"Who'd deny a poor cripple his cane?" "If the cripple is you, then any man with sense."”

“On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.”

“Love is a better master than duty.”

“A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”

“But death is not easily escaped from by anyone: all of us with souls, earth-dwellers and children of men, must make our way to a destination already ordained where the body, after the banque...”

“Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts an...”

“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”

“Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.”

“Always remember that motivation gets you moving, but determination keeps you going.”

“The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.”

“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”

“I live in a crazy time.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.”

“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”

“love the life you live. live the life you love.”