Said Quotes

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

So, I'm 34. I'm kind of becoming an adult - kind of, I guess. But I know that I am because, the other day, I said to somebody, 'Dude, dude, don't - those are the good plates.

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

I am a woman. I am a fisherman. As I have said, I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.

There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.

Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.

I know many people have said it before, but there is nothing a cup of coffee and a new pair of shoes can't fix!

I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.

I'm not sure I would label it a 'survivor,'" said Iko, her sensor darkening with disgust. "It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.

Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

Julius Caesar's wife, who said to Julius, We are not naming our son Sid! Never got a dinner!

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.

Lee Iacocca, who said to Dolly Parton, Why do you need an airbag? Never got a dinner!

John Wilkes Booth, who said, Sorry, I thought he was a critic. Never got a dinner!

I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!” “No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. “Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!

I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.