Said Quotes

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.

I always said God was against art and I still believe it.

My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.

All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

Many people have said many things. I can only say I did not consciously go after dance. It found me.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

Ran out of bullets and still had static, grabbed a pregnant lady and out the automatic. Pointed at her head and said the gun was full of lead, he told the cops, back off or honey here's dead.

Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.

I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.

Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, "I don't read much but I think a lot

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.

'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

President Obama held a ceremony at the White House to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. In response, Republicans said, 'It's even worse than we thought. He's a Jewish Muslim.'

Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.

I will remember this word," he said. "Shenanigans. It is a good word.