Said Quotes

I think I’ll just go take a shower,” I said. It wasn’t until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I’d just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal.

I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie" I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. "One of the tentacle-monster ones." Most of them were X-rated and ended up with a lot of dead people.

Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.

You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.

Many times in my life I've been upset about something and said to myself, "Will this matter in two years?" Not even in two months.

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.

Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.

It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.

Do you know how much a hundred dollars is?' he asked. I said that I did not and he answered, 'It is a hundred dollars.

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

Auri," I asked slowly, "are you joking with me?" She looked up and grinned. "Yes I am," she said proudly. "Isn't it wonderful?

Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.

You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.

I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.

I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them; he just respected their wishes.

I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial.

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

The other thing [my psychology professor] said to me was that I was always very mindful of the person who was away from the group, that I was always trying to bring them in.

It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.

Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate.

When the case against me was dropped, the police simply said "no further action". They do that with everybody.

Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.

My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.

Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1959]. He said Orfeo had made up a new bible.

My sisters said, Why do you make those faces? You make yourself so ugly.

If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.