Said Quotes

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Dont separate your life, the life that youre going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'

My dad brought me Michael Jackson and Madonna and said, "This is ALL you need to know!"

What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.'

Donald Trump is the one who said if somebody really wants an arms race, we'll drown him.

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.

He took a few steps before responding. "You are special," he finally said, and the way e said it made her wonder if he wanted to add something else.

Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.

Even if I thought he as perfect for her." She turned to face him. "What were we thinking?" "We weren't," he said. "We were in love.

A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.

I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.

A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. I'm dying, Landon.

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every idea except Kaiser Chiefs.

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."

This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it.

I would be lying if I said I don't like to look sexy. But then there are some days when I don't want to look or feel sexy.

Really I peeped dude at the bar like really Lookin like he want a good time like really Said he had a friend for my homegirl Lilly Lilly Lilly Lilly

I have said before I think it would be really good to have a woman in the final two but that's a matter for the parliamentary party.

When I was going into acting, my mom said, "You can't let that faze you. And if it does faze you, if you start getting upset if people say no, that's it - pull the plug."

Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in Excalibur. That was the first thing I said to her. "I loved you as Morgan Le Fay."

I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and she said 'Half an hour?', I said 'Forty-five minutes?'

My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.

Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything

The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever. And yet. I made myself forget. I don't know why. I keep asking myself. But I did.

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'

I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.

All my Doctor's said I should become a model.

I look back at things I said when I was younger - it was bulls - t. You do what you have to do to go where you have to go, but I look back and I don't believe what that guy was saying.

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.

I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called "intellectuals" in standard usage, as he would be the first to agree.

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

He said it's an honor to fight me, well I say that it's an honor to fight him as well.