Said Quotes
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Humility.
Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it." "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.
Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.
As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.
I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.
People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.
IKEA is not completely perfect. It irritates me to hear it said that IKEA is the best company in the world. We are going the right way to becoming it but we are not there yet.
I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.
The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!
Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.
Make sure that when you agree with everything that's being said and when you feel passionate about your future, you take it into your hands. You do something.
And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.
Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
They go'n try to stop you, they go'n try. Notice how I said true. We ain't never stopping.
I said to my wife, 'Where do you want to go for our anniversary?' She said, 'I want to go somewhere I've never been before.' I said, 'Try the kitchen.'
We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.
Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives.
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.
The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you,'
On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't, he said: Do you mind if I mug you here?
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.
