Top 100 Al Said Quotes
#1. I'm none too big on giving advice,'
Aunt Al said. 'Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.
Jeannette Walls
#2. This can't happen. Minias said it couldn't happen. I'm not a demon. It shouldn't work for me! I'm not a demon!"
"Apparently," Al said, slamming into the bars in time with his words, "you're so damn close, it doesn't matter!
Kim Harrison
#3. Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?
Kim Harrison
#4. Al said, "We'll burn right up if we got climbin' to do. Have to throw out some a' this stuff. Maybe, we shouldn' a brang that preacher." "You'll be glad a that preacher 'fore we're through," said Ma. "That preacher'll help us.
John Steinbeck
#5. My name is Rachel Morgan," Al said, mimicking my voice perfectly. "I like black panties, action movies, and being on top.
Kim Harrison
#6. You tried to slide his original curse back onto him?" Al said in wonder. "At the restaurant? And I stopped you? Sweet mother pus bucket!" he exclaimed, and I swear, dust sifted from the ceiling. "Rachel, we have to work on this communication thing.
Kim Harrison
#7. He's going to hurt you," Al said, looking at Pierce. "I can take care of you, teach you to survive. Be there for you, even if you do hate me." I shivered. "I don't want him," I said, and Al turned away, seeming smaller somehow.
Kim Harrison
#8. Al was looking at me in disbelief. "Not your lover?"
"No."
"But he is Rachel candy," Al said, his confusion too honest to be faked.
Kim Harrison
#9. Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause."
Robin Williams
#11. Russia went into Syria basically to support President Bashar al-Assad. And the Western allies have said Russia's really done very little against ISIS. For his part, Putin said Russia's open to stronger cooperation, and he supports Frances's effort to build a strong anti-terror coalition.
Corey Flintoff
#12. I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'
Al Gore
#13. Who the fuck're you?" he asked, only it came out Hoo-a fuck-a you? Al hadn't given me detailed instructions on how to answer questions, so I said what seemed safest. "None of your fucking business." "Well fuck you, too." "Fine," I said. "We are in accord." "Huh?
Stephen King
#14. God, it stinks," I said, hand over my nose as he pulled me into a long step. Al strode forward, head high. "It's the stench of bureaucracy, my itchy-witch, and why I chose to go into human resources when but a wee lad.
Kim Harrison
#15. I only snatched him to get your attention," I said. "Now that I've got it, this is what I want."
"Damn my dame!" Al shouted, hands raised to the ceiling. "I knew it! Not another list!
Kim Harrison
#16. He said, "Al, that's the stupidest question you've ever asked in your life," but I don't reckon it was. I bet I ask way stupider questions that that every day.
J.L. Merrow
#17. I think a singer is an athlete. I've always tried to stay fit. Until my knee said, "Uh-uh," I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don't like walking a lot, but I'll push them.
Al Jarreau
#18. As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads."
Al Yankovic
#19. Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and say, "al-Maarri, but no one says your Koran." And he said, "Yes, but give me time. Give me time. If people recite it for twenty years it will become as popular as the other one."
Tariq Ali
#20. I was worried about littering, but Larry said it was okay 'cause corks come from trees and are natural and stuff. Only he used longer words than that.(Al)
J.L. Merrow
#21. Hazrat Abu Darda'a said: He who thinks that to go at dawn in search of knowledge is not jihad is deficient in intellect.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#22. Richard took one look and said, 'Ali, you are too young to work in the States.' He then drew a line on the wall. 'When you are that tall we will send you,' he said. Even today I would not reach that line. I was disappointed, of course. I
Ali Al-Naimi
#23. There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."
Al Pacino
#24. I would show up at a party for Al Qaeda if you said there's going to be a dinner.
Gilbert Gottfried
#25. How did you find me?" he said, anger creasing his brow.
I pushed his hair back to run a finger over the scar Al had given him. "How do you think? He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake."
From the corner, Al shifted his tune. "So be good, or I'll rip your fucking head off
Kim Harrison
#26. Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.
Richard Holbrooke
#27. But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.
Al Alvarez
#28. Al? Is that all it is for you? You just like the way we...fuck?" I was going to say, he said "fuck" like it's dirty word, but I guess it is, isn't it? But he said it like that anyhow.
J.L. Merrow
#29. I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
Al Pacino
#30. Jalal," she said, "I can explain."
"There's no need."
"I'm not - "
"I told you; there's no need." He spoke simply. "I trust you.
Renee Ahdieh
#31. Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.
Lawrence Bender
#32. I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?
Al Roker
#33. They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It's absurd.
Al Sharpton
#34. Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.
Al Sharpton
#35. I saw my Lord with the Eye of my heart,And I said: Truly there is no doubt that it is You.It is You that I see in everything;And I do not see You through anything (but You).
Mansur Al-Hallaj
#36. Just follow my lead,' I said. 'It'll be fun.'
'Please,' Sam begged, 'don't let those words be carved on my tombstone.
Rick Riordan
#37. I mean you think about the guy, the Nigerian guy, who was going to blow up the plane. He was wearing a pair of Fruit of the Lunatic ... Guy was not too bright. He said that the reason he became a suicide bomber was to work his way up in the al Qaeda organization.
David Letterman
#38. But I thought you said we didn't have to worry," Perrin said, and Tam shook his head.
"I said should not, boy, not did not. I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.
Robert Jordan
#39. In 1997 Clinton pushed to double the number of children being adopted by the year of 2002 (Altstein et al. 11). He said that bonuses would be given to the state of $4000.00 for every child adopted over the desired quota and another $2000.00 for any child that has disabilities or older children
Keelie Smith
#40. No, you just keep crashing my life. Look - " I said, and Al grunted.
"Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to have a list.
Kim Harrison
#41. Al come on. The woman's, like, senile,' I said under my breath. 'Last year she thought me and Hammond were a closeted couple.
Kieran Scott
#42. They said Indonesia was a failure," Al Pope reflected bitterly. "But we knocked the shit out of them. We killed thousands of Communists, even though half of them probably didn't even know what Communism meant.
Tim Weiner
#43. But they were all tricks.They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything.Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all.
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Charles Bukowski
#44. I can think of a lot of things to do," he said, "and none of them involve standing up. - Al
Kim Harrison
#45. That was great, al' that reading' ye did!' said Rob Anybody. 'I didnae understand a single word o' it!' 'Aye, it must be powerful language if you cannae make oout what the heel it's goin' on aboot!' said another pictsie.
Terry Pratchett
#46. Al Roker said I am 80 years 'young'; it's like saying Al Roker is 320 pounds 'thin'.
Joan Rivers
#47. If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you.
Sufyan Al-Thawri
#48. It got so bad that Al thought
maybe it was
him
so he went to a shrink
and asked
and the shrink said,
"you're one of the sanest men
I've ever met."
poor Al.
that made him feel
worse
than ever.
Charles Bukowski
#49. I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: 'Who are You?' He said: 'You.'
Mansur Al-Hallaj
#50. Exactly," Guccio said. "The image I'm getting now is some fat alien lounging in a spherical spaceship, drinking a beer, watching The Wizard of Oz on TV, and yelling obscenities at the screen. I think I'd prefer a computer.
Al Macy
#51. Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!
Al Lewis
#52. Ka'b ibn Malik reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Two hungry wolves loose among sheep do not cause as much damage as that caused to a man's deen by his greed for money and reputation.
Muhammad Al-Tirmidhi
#53. I have said to you before that even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my son, and I have all the love for you as a son, and I do not want your image to change with me.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#54. We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.
David Dinkins
#55. The Prophet said: Don't sit with every learned man. Sit with the learned man who calls towards five matters towards faith from doubt, sincerity from show, modesty from pride, love from enmity, and ascetism from worldliness.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#57. Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
Al Franken
#58. I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'
Al Yankovic
#59. We have always said there are two ways to resolve Syria, and both will end up with the same result: a Syria without Bashar Assad.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#60. It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
Al Pacino
#61. We met a people who loved it when it was said to them "Fear Allah the most high!". Today you find people become annoyed at this.
Sufyan Al-Thawri
#62. When my son was 3 years old - I'll never forget this - there was this homeless guy walking toward us, and my son looked at me, and he said, 'Who's your buddy?'
Al Madrigal
#63. I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#64. As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.
John F. Kerry
#65. A demon was asking me what I wanted.
My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. "What do you want?" he said softly.
Kim Harrison
#66. Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him.
'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#67. At last he said, very softly, "It's big, isn't it?" "It is," I said. "And Al . . . man . . . I'm just a little guy.
Stephen King
#68. That's my girl," she said, her eyes holding a shared pain as she saw my confusion. "Al, where are you going to put her? Not in your room. She'd pull a line through you and kill you when you hog the blankets. I'll take the waif in. I promise I'll bring this one up properly.
Kim Harrison
#69. You saved me tonight."
"No," he said, eyes flashing, one brow arched. "You saved yourself, Al. I was just your getaway driver.
Laura Kaye
#70. When the president during the campaign
said he was against nation building,
I didn't realize he meant our nation.
Al Franken
#71. Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles.
"Thank you, Rachel," he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened.
"Welcome back, my itchy witch.
Kim Harrison
#72. I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.
Javier Bardem
#73. There's an old saying in the Two Rivers" Rand said dryly. "'The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.'" Another said, "The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.
Robert Jordan
#75. No,' said Harry firmly, 'you and Al will share a room only when I want the house demolished.' He
J.K. Rowling
#76. The silence stretched. Finally Al added one more sentence that I have been thinking about ever since. 'And if you did it again,' he said, 'we would have to kill you again.' We stared at each other for some time after that; each convinced, I am sure, that the other was a total idiot.
Dan Simmons
#77. Of all the girls I ever knew
some loved and some denied me
And all the words I ever said
have been no use to hide me
And all the songs I ever sung
each one of them untied me
And all the girls I ever loved
have left themselves inside me.
Al Stewart
#78. A learned man said: The learned men are the lights of the ages. Each is a light in his own time giving light to the people of his time.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#79. I plan to march to the ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea," the young King said, his mismatched eyes shining with certainty. "And it's Al-ex-an-der." He smiled. "You Persians always butcher my name.
Kat Ross
#80. All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
Manal Al-Sharif
#81. Why of course it's unlikely!' I said. 'Oh, by far!
The awesome-est things in the world often are!
Al Yankovic
#82. No exclusive," I said aloud, watching Al for his opinion and seeing him shake his head and hold his hands out in a "bigger" gesture. He didn't even know how large the offer was, and he thought I could get one bigger.
Kim Harrison
#83. Some things do not have to be said. You didn't have to tell me you were in love with Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. And I didn't have to tell you I cried myself to sleep for weeks after you left. Love speaks for itself.
Renee Ahdieh
#84. The L.A. Times reports that al Qaeda terrorists have been traced to Iran, and President Bush is talking tough. In fact he said he will attack the minute he has evidence his approval rating is under 45 percent.
Jay Leno
#85. I have said it loud and clear: Beware, men, lest women deprive you of all the leadership positions in the country.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#86. You! she said, stepping forward with a vehement expression and her finger pointed. Heart pounding, I pressed into Al. Funny how he seemed so much safer now. (Newt, Rachel and Al)
Kim Harrison
#87. The journey was thrilling. Inspiring. Exalting. And, in the end, it did not change a thing. "You would never have believed me if I'd told you," said Sheikh al-Khammas. "You had to learn the truth for yourself: the real Holy City is within.
Michael Golding
#88. I think Amy Winehouse's decision not to go to rehab was a bad one. In fact, I think it was the worst idea since Dodi Al Fayed said to Princess Diana, Ooh, look! A tunnel! Whack that seat belt off and let's have a fuck.
Robert Clark
#89. He will take you back, and he will destroy you. "I bring change," Rand said sadly. "Not peace, but turmoil." Destruction follows on my heels everywhere. Will there ever be anywhere I do not tear apart? "What will be, will be, Rhuarc. I can't change it.
Robert Jordan
#90. I sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?"
"My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this?
Kim Harrison
#91. It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.
Al-Ghazali
#92. Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'
Abdelkader El Djezairi
#93. We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen.
Nothing did.
"This isn't good," Quen said.
I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.
Kim Harrison
#94. Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#95. Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I've ever raced against. And I often said, I wish I could've had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many times.
Mario Andretti
#96. Rachel, Rachel, Rachel," he said, very still and unmoving. "Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You're like a frog, you know.
Kim Harrison
#97. When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.
Al Neuharth
#98. He even said you once threw al your husband's clothes onto the street and invited the neighbors to help themselves!" says Ellen with a bright laugh. "He's got such an imagination!"
My face flames. Damn. I thought he was asleep when I did that.
Sophie Kinsella
#99. I grew up in a household in which they'd always play old skool classic R&B love songs - Al Green, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye ... And my mom has even said that, when I was in her womb, she'd put the headphones to her stomach and play those songs to me!
Jeremih
#100. Liberals said the war was a failure because we hadn't captured Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Then we killed al-Zarqawi and a half-dozen of his aides in an air raid. Then they said the war was a failure because ... you get the picture.
Ann Coulter
