Said Quotes

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.

What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.

My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

People out there said I was too small. It's those kinds of moments that pushed me to be where I'm at right now.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".

So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

Since this life is God's and cannot die, it follows that everyone born anew into possessing this life is said to have eternal life.

I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them, I did it myself.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.