Said Quotes

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

Alexander Graham Bell's wife, who said to Alex on their wedding night, Your three minutes are up. Never got a dinner!

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

We need to stop focusing on people leaving earth and focus on, like Jesus said, the Kingdom of God is the yeast. Yeast invades dough.

In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about.

I was there when I said it.

For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

Bad Girl!" She chided. "I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said. "Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future.

Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese.

Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

Be true to what you said on paper.

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

"Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon. "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it."

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

Once my husband said to me, 'I'm going to have some coffee. Do you want me to put some hot water on for you?' I thought that was the least he could do considering I was giving birth.

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.

At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book

Promise is most given when the least is said.

A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.

At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.

The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way."

I'm not singing anymore; that is why I am so pleased to be writing. My daughter said, "You just found a different way of using your voice."

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.

I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.

Someone said DX over here? It was this dipshit with the cowboy hat over here.