Said Quotes

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."

Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

If somebody had told me that you have a choice of being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers, there would not have been a choice at all. I would have said, 'Where's my locker?'

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before

Like I said...fine with me.

My mom always said, "Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you."

You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.

More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.

I'm not worried about walking the streets and looking over my shoulder because of something I might have said.

Well thank you, me old gobbler,' said Mr. Gum handing over some money that Billy William would later discover to be made out of lies and broken promises.

Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

There's a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said "this is how we're going to kill the Syrian people."

Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.

If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.

What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, "they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us".

People have said, "You've turned your back on pediatrics." I said, "No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics."

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

My mother always said democracy is the best revenge.

My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear.'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.

You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

Guy Lafleur said "Each of us has only one past but there are many futures".

Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.