Top 100 Said Quotes
#1. As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.
Alan Bradley
#2. You're right," Early said. "Those are two different things."
"What are?", I asked, surprised that he thought I was right about ANYTHING.
"Dying and sleeping. A person should be able to do one without the other sneaking up on him.
Clare Vanderpool
#3. The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
Pankaj Mishra
#5. I couldn't eat because that book made me cry so hard, I couldn't even breathe. Connie said to keep reading and keep breathing, like that was easy. Tears and snot just about came out my butt, I cried so hard
Pat Schmatz
#6. It was true what people said, that when one became old (and how sneakily that happened, how sly time was), memories of the long-ago past, repressed for decades, were suddenly bright and clear. A
Kate Morton
#7. I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!
Terry Pratchett
#8. Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don't know, comfort. The sense you're where you're supposed to be, with someone you're supposed to be with.
John Scalzi
#9. No," said the demon. "A witch is just a girl who knows her mind. I am better than a witch. But look at the great orgy coming up like a rose around me. No night in Hell could be as bright.
Catherynne M Valente
#10. With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Studs Terkel
#11. I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.
Joe Johnston
#12. You remind me of a willow." She said easily. "Strong, deep-rooted, and hidden. You move easily when the storm comes, but never farther than you wish.
Patrick Rothfuss
#13. So," Frank said. "Your name isn't Sammy?"
Leo scowled. "What kind of question is that?"
"Nothing," Frank said quickly. "I just - Nothing.
Rick Riordan
#14. Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence.
He frowned.
"I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?
J.M. Barrie
#15. People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#16. Nothing belongs here," I said.
Jena Ball
#17. Don't do that again! Not ever again!" I told him.
"I should say the same to you," he said. I could feel his breath, warm on my neck.
"Promise me!" I demanded.
"I ... I promise."
"I can't lose you.
Kristen Simmons
#18. Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.
Karl Rove
#19. I will finish what I have begun. I have said it. This is my khanate.
Conn Iggulden
#20. I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.
Patricia Briggs
#21. I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.
George Russell
#22. Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen ['Grin and bear it and get on with the job'] - as they used to tell us in the army. That's the best and finest thing of all.
Jaroslav Hasek
#23. Jace shook his head. "I don't care if I did just set myself on fire," he said. "I'm not hugging you.
Cassandra Clare
#24. We said that mere judgment would probably suffice in a primitive society. It is easy for a society to live without mathematics -
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#25. Jared gently pulled my chin to face him. "He said he wouldn't make you choose. But if you don't have a choice, I'm the one that loses. So I'm going to make you choose, Nina. Choose me. Please ... choose me." He shook his head. "I can't live without you.
Jamie McGuire
#26. Anyway,' she said more seriously this time, 'whatever it takes, find out what it is you're willing to suffer for. You've got to balance pleasure with pain in this life.
Okamoto Kanoko
#27. Covenant did not reply at once. He trembled also, and hand to clench himself before he could say without a tremor, "Why? Why do you trust me?"
The Hirebrand's eyes gleamed as if he were on the verge of tears, but he was smiling as he said, "You are a man who knows the value of beauty."
Stephen R. Donaldson
#28. Have you had contact with any other survivors?"
"Only one," the Alderaanian senator said grimly. "Lock onto my coordinates. He's waiting for you.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#29. I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy ... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
Zach Braff
#30. How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
Francois Rabelais
#31. I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.
Elliott Abrams
#32. He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.
Michel De Montaigne
#33. Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.
Pankaj Mishra
#34. While von Clausewitz said, 'War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means,' when considering the welfare of our men and women in uniform, their families, our veterans and survivors, don't let politics drive your decisions.
Joe Heck
#35. Jackass!" Eve yelled.
"You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome," Shane said.
Rachel Caine
#36. If I ever get arrested," I said, "you will be my one phone call. Bail me out - that's what you can do." "If you ever get arrested," Sofia said, "I'll already be in jail as your accomplice.
Lisa Kleypas
#37. Did you know that bone china had real bones in it?" Poppy said, tapping a porcelain cheek. "Her clay was made from human bones. Little-girl bones. That hair threaded through the scalp is the little girl's hair. And the body of the doll is filled with her leftover ashes.
Holly Black
#38. What concrete steps can I take now?" I asked the voice, and it replied: "Go to a house of prayer and pray."
"Without faith?" I countered, and the voice said: "You have more faith than you know.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#39. I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali
#40. I've known Timbaland for a while. We developed a friendship. He always said he would come back for me when he was ready, and he did. We've been rocking and rolling since we got together a couple of years ago. I'm blessed to be under his mentorship, and grateful he's opened so many doors for me.
V. Bozeman
#41. I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years, I said.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#42. He nuzzled my neck, inhaling deeply. "Mmm. You smell so good."
"Oh, yeah," I said, smirking. "I call this new perfume 'Le Jungle grime et tropical BO.' "
"Dirt and sweat. Very sexy.
James Patterson
#43. There's a time for caution,' I said, 'and a time to just kill the bastards.
Bernard Cornwell
#44. Expand your love, your consciousness, and your loving compassion by experiencing everything that everyone does or says as though you had done or said it.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#45. I want to die and be finished forever. Don't you want to die?" he said. "I don't know." "What's the point of living if we don't die at the end of it?" In
Don DeLillo
#46. I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, 'What do I do next?' Pat replied, 'Wait till the pain dies down.'
Bob Hope
#47. It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.
Rodney Stark
#48. Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
Barbara Boxer
#49. Chicago will forever be in my heart," she said. "It is the Paris of the Middle West.
Graham Moore
#50. Marco Rubio said he was personally open over a long period of time to offering a path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. Rubio's work on a comprehensive immigration bill is one of his biggest vulnerabilities with Republican primary voters.
Ted Cruz
#51. I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.
Ben Hogan
#52. Coyotes don't eat dachshunds," Johnson said. "Dachshunds were bred to go down badger tunnels and drag the badgers out by their ass. A good-sized dachshund could weigh thirty pounds and has jaws like a crocodile. Old Dixie would straight-out fuck up a coyote." "Didn't know that," Virgil said. -
John Sandford
#53. There was a very old-looking dwarf on the step with a white beard and a scarlet hood; and he too hopped inside as soon as the door was open, just as if he had been invited. "I see they have begun to arrive already," he said when he caught sight of
J.R.R. Tolkien
#54. How can we do that?" I replied. "You were the one who said if we believe in something greater than our
Malala Yousafzai
#55. She said the wrong thing or sounded like a space alien with bad programming, when all she wanted was to be just like everyone else. I meant are you okay now,
Susan Mallery
#56. My veracity is dearer to me than my life," said the peasant; "nor would I purchase the one by forfeiting the other.
Horace Walpole
#57. The Master said, "A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with."
(Analects 4.9)
Confucius
#58. As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."
O'Shea Jackson Jr.
#59. Uncle Remus, who said to Uncle Ben, You're a credit to your rice. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#60. I quote the late Ed Murow ... He said: 'Look, people listen to me when they want an eyewitness account. 'They think I'm a pretty good reporter. But when it comes to my opinions, mine are not worth anymore than the guy at the end of the bar.' And I believe that about myself.
Dan Rather
#61. People think that I play effortlessly. I remember doing a record date with Bill Evans and afterwards he said to me, you make it sound so easy but when I get right up next to you you're working hard and making it sound easy!
Stan Getz
#62. An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.
Matt Redman
#63. Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty
I wouldn't know what to do with myself.
Hunter S. Thompson
#64. I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
Abbas Kiarostami
#65. What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?
Jaclyn Moriarty
#66. Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami." She said, "We can't do that!" I told her, "You did it last week!"
Henny Youngman
#67. I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do that, mother.' That was so far away from my barrio world.
Sandra Cisneros
#68. Not like you to let someone get that close," Nicholas said, nodding at the cut on his forehead. "Need the surgeon?"
"And be forced to admit that one of this ship's cabin boys caught me unawares with a spoon as I went below? Wicked little bugger. I'd rather be boiled in oil.
Alexandra Bracken
#69. What the hell is that?"
I jumped and glanced over to see Kristof staring at Grady, who was waving his arms, rolling his eyes, shaking and moaning.
"I think he's possessed," I said.
"By what? Epilepsy?
Kelley Armstrong
#70. We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.
Louise Doughty
#71. My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.
Ilsa J. Bick
#72. I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King.
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.
Mary Renault
#73. But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?
Lewis Carroll
#74. Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.
Marlene Zuk
#75. The wines are Saccone and Speed,' he had said. It was a merchant's observation. He had meant that even there, in the centre of Africa, the wine had come from the shippers on our east coast, and not from the people on the other side. But in my imagination I allowed the words to stand for pure bliss.
V.S. Naipaul
#76. Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#77. Thus, as the Buddha said to a lady who offered him a curse,the gift is returned to the giver when it is not accepted
Allen Ginsberg
#78. Practice," Shallan said. "I should suspect that is how everyone learns, eventually.
Brandon Sanderson
#79. I can hardly tell where I end, and he begins. I feel in his kiss that there is so much being said without words. It's as though he is claiming me back as his own.
J.S. Taylor
#80. What about a warning system?" Heloise said.
"The entire encounter lasted less than five seconds, Hel. I doubt that even with your admirable ability to sprint in heels, you would have been able to get there in time.
Gina Damico
#81. Who ever said the heart was smart or that it followed directions?
Kylie Scott
#82. I like ye fat, Sassenach," he said softly. "Fat and juicy as a plump wee hen. I like it fine.
Diana Gabaldon
#83. It was in the crypt," Loren said, gesturing. "We just managed to get it here after you pulled your little surprise on us."
"You're the best." I blew him a kiss.
"Hey, what about me?" Quain asked.
"You're second best, as always," Loren said.
Maria V. Snyder
#84. Oh, good, Pestilence is free, said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other statue in the place, and it had always put Karou in mind of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, sowing plaque with one outstretched arm.
Laini Taylor
#85. Of course not," said Hermione. "Everything we need is here on this paper.
J.K. Rowling
#86. If you say that you have accepted defeat, the world will let you go. 'We' have discovered this. Because, we had tried to win over the world and in doing so, we had to go through many incarnations. And in the end, I said that I have acknowledged defeat and settled down.
Dada Bhagwan
#87. The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.
Ronald Reagan
#88. I could be worse, you know."
"How?" I asked, teasing.
"I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse."
"Sounds unsanitary," I said.
John Green
#89. I came out here to do the acting, and then after a year of auditions and not getting anything, I met these Italian guys and they asked me to write lyrics for them. Then they said, "Why don't you just front the band?" I said, "Well, maybe because I can't sing. I've never sang before in my life."
Malin Akerman
#90. What boy could resist you?"
"Will's hardly a boy."
"Don't give me that. He's a boy playing a game," Norris said. "The oldest game there is.
Caragh M. O'Brien
#91. The well-known evangelist D. L. Moody is reported to have said that he had more trouble with D. L. Moody than with any other person he met!
Jared C. Wilson
#92. I've heard that said about outlanders and enemies before, and I don't generally trust it. Just too bloody convenient, the quick and easy way to deal with difference. Oh, they're not like us, they're insane. It saves you having to think too much.
Richard K. Morgan
#93. Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'
Jasmine Guinness
#94. The muse of invention handed me a rifle and I shot a white bear who sat down and said: Ah.
Vladimir Nabokov
#95. People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.
David Bowie
#96. Nor was Jabotinsky enticed by the idea of Arab resettlement. People might call him an extremist, he said, but at least he had never dreamed of asking Arabs in a Jewish state to emigrate.
Hillel Halkin
#97. I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'
Elaine Stritch
#98. I had a great and unshakable love of her. I don't think anyone else did. And one thing that endeared her to me always was that she never said anything ordinary.
Anne Rice
#99. Her face brightened with a sudden flash of mischief, and without warning she punched him, surprisingly hard, in the ribs. "There!" she said. "Now I feel much better.
Aldous Huxley
#100. His father said nothing. Instead, he looked straight at Tengo as if he were reading a bulletin written in a foreign language.
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Haruki Murakami
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