Said Quotes

Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

We found the bathrooms, which were labeled 'Aliens' and 'Femaliens.' 'Finally,' I said to J.Lo. 'Here's a bathroom you're allowed to use.

What part of Canada are you from, honey?" "THE LEFT PART," said Jay.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn't have said sampling.

We have always said there are two ways to resolve Syria, and both will end up with the same result: a Syria without Bashar Assad.

Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.

Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

Messi is the best player ever. And this is said by someone who has seen Maradona and Pele play.

How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

What was said before is not important.

We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.

After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.'

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he'll follow through on his promises.

John Lewis being attacked as "talk, talk, talk" by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn't consider him a legitimate president.

Invaluable....the best one-stop source I've seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

I said to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, 'You realize that's the first time anybody associated with the league has made that connection?' And I remember, he was a litttle... annoyed. He was annoyed.

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.

A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let it happen.