Said Quotes

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.

I bought these shoes in Taiwan, and they said in the inside "made around the corner."

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.

I'm probably going to deliver my baby in these [4-inch YSL heels] ... I went to the doctor yesterday and he said, 'You're gonna need to get out of those heels!'

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway."

William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

With a braggart, it's no sooner done than said.

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in. "He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

The other day a woman came up to me and said, Didn't I see you on television? I said, I don't know. You can't see out the other way.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

I've always said, I like my coffee like I like my men... I don't drink coffee.

Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."

Love is like falconry," he said. "Don't you think that's true, Cleveland?" "Never say love is like anything." said Cleveland. "It isn't.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

A big girl once came up to me after a show and said "I think you're fatist." I said "No, no. I think you're fattest."

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.

Somebody once said it's the SOUL that matters

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

Shoot, two things I said I wasn't going to do: Cry and give air quotes.

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

My uncle always said, ‘Hurry slowly.’ I guess, it means, have the intensity of love but don’t rush into it. Have the full feeling but take it slow. Ease into it.

I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

My brand was always going to be based on my personality. I didn't want people hiring me for what I said. I wanted them hiring me for who I am.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the 80s - that I had Robert Wagners pompadour. I said, What are you talking about? You mean the guy from Hart to Hart?

An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.'

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!

I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.