Said Quotes

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.

...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.

"There's a door," he whispered. "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think," said Rincewind.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

I think that probably in some areas the Labour message about some of the things that they said we were going to do - and which we weren't going to do - cut through.

I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They're the antichrist.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.

Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."

It was reported that the New York Knicks have won all 12 of the home games attended by magician David Blaine. A spokesman for the Knicks said, 'if this is what it takes to win, it's not worth it.'

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.

As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up.

The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

I went into a butchers and I said, 'I'll have a pound of sausages. 'He said, 'I'm very sorry, sir, we only serve kilos in here. 'I said, 'Okay then I'll have a pound of kilos.'

He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books".

A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'

My wife had a go at me last night. She said, Youll drive me to my grave. I had the car out in thirty seconds.

Man went into a bar, he only had one arm. Guy sitting next to him said 'Hey, you've got your sleeve in my drink', man replied, 'There's no arm in it'

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.

I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees from the arrangement we have potentially.

The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

I hate using this term [miracle]. I'm a man of science. I'm a doctor. I don't use this word. But he said, it's a miracle your mom's alive.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better world-view.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?

God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.