Said Quotes

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

What would have become of Ohio State if I said everything? Half the team would have been suspended, and it would have been worse for everybody. I was like, 'Why don't I just take it?'

The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, "he talks too much to customers". He can talk to me all day.

Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that.

If killing [animal research scientists] is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly be justified.

Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.

What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.

As I've said before, free money scams are a problem.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

When I was 7 years old, my father asked me a simple question. He said, 'do you want to see someone fly?' What 7 year old boy is gonna say no to that?

When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.

I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

I've always said it's important to take advice from people who have what you want because otherwise, people are just guessing.

Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.

You don't really know either of us," Cam said, standing and stepping away, "but you're prepared to choose right now, huh?

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

He said my name the way diabetics talked about hot fudge sundaes.

Buddy of mine once told me that he'd rather fly a jet than kiss his girl. Said it gave him more of a kick.

My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

I haven't promised anything for the future. Instead, I have said what I would have done differently in the past.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him!

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

Bear ye one another's burdens, the Lord said, and he was talking law.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.

I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'

I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care what the facts are. Said after 'Vincennes' shot down an Iranian Airliner.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.