Said Quotes

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.

One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.

Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.

We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say.

I don't know what you two are up to," Hobart said. "But you be careful now, you hear? Don't do anything I wouldn't do." "Well now, that doesn't restrict us very much, does it?" Mark teased back.

It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.

Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.

Trella! You’re here,” he said with glee. “Even though I’m not as smart as you, I do know where I am.

Don’t worry," I said. "These men are good. They’re going to heal the world.

No," I said. "I'm not safe, Belen. Who is going to tear Kerrick's arm off if he hits me again? Come on," I urged. "Stay with us".

I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never have time to write or sing.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.

My old man said, 'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam.

They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?

(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.

Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by two. I'd multiply by ten or twelve if I had the energy.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.

I work out every day, and I eat 1,200 calories. Heres the truth - like Ive said to everybody, Every diet works if you follow the diet.

I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.