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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.

Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'

Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?

And I will not be beaten by that jackass." "Jackass?" said Foaly, wounded. "My favorite uncle is a jackass.

Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this. At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later?

I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

DoveWing (talking to LoinBlaze): You got somthing wrong, what you said to ToadStep. You are the hero.

"Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

God my Creator said, 'Go and make disciples.' So I don't want to sit and make excuses.

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

I asked a shop owner if he could help me out. He said: "What way did you come in?"

A man walks into a hospital feeling unwell and the doctor says: "Sorry, you've only got three minutes to live." The man said: "Can you do something for me?" "Yes," he said. "I'll boil you an egg."

I was going up to the bathroom and a woman asked me: "Have you a good memory for faces?" I asked why and she said: "Because there isn't a mirror up there."

If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

I always wanted to be the strongest man on the field. Most of the time, they said I was lifting too much but I didn't believe in that at all.

Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper.

When I first got to St. Louis, I saw the arch and I said, 'I want to go to that McDonalds.

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

After 48 years, I have said nothing.

Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

Your woman wears underwear out in public,” Sabin said. “Must be nice. How’d you manage that little miracle?” “Only the Deity knows.

You know, you’re pretty when you smile,” she said, patting the side of his cheek. “Fierce, woman. I am fierce.” “If you say so.

When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

I said to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

Now you know " the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. "Now you know why you must live." "Why " Bran said not understanding falling falling. "Because winter is coming.

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.