Said Quotes

If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

I wish my nose was smaller and that I was a little taller. I also had this perennial pimple problem, so I felt people were just being polite when they said I was beautiful.

When everything is said and done there is nothing left to do or say.

Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed, you can be sure that, like Eskimos, when they turn over, they'll all turn over together.

Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

I never said half the crap people said I did.

If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for no reward - only to live & to hear my work.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief.

All four days I didn't think. I just hit. Squeaky (Medlen, his caddy) said 'kill' and I killed it.

Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.

Guess we're going north," Dev said slowly. "Everyone, follow Lassie.Timmy's in the well.

I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you."

I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...'

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal.

I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.

A little man said to the Universe. "Sir! I exist." The Universe replied: "That's fine." Just don't think it creates any obligation on my part.

No, I am not afraid; the Lord said he would protect me, and I have full confidence in His word.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.