Said That Quotes

#1. My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

Patricia Briggs

#2. It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.

Okakura Kakuzo

#3. It is often said that it's a man's world! We must change this fact and create this: It's a human's world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under the kitchen table. "You are beautiful". No one had ever looked me in the eyes and said that.
Eric to Sookie, Page 208.

Charlaine Harris

#5. Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.

John Steinbeck

#6. plus a porch that runs along three sides of the house. I told Ma once the Howards had a room just for company, a room just for books, and a room just for plants, and she said that was three rooms too many. First time I ever saw any envy in my ma. David

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#7. My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying. So i went downstairs, picked up a pair of pliers and a blowtorch and showed her what real fear was.

Robert Clark

#8. Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

Jimmy Carter

#9. It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

Christine Gregoire

#10. I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!"
"My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow ... "
"Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!

Terry Pratchett

#11. The accordion and the whores and the retching,' he said. 'That's our music.

Paula McLain

#12. They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.

J. C. Watts

#13. When I hear the songs 'Dangerous' or 'End of My World', I go, 'Wow, I didn't even know I could go that low!' And when I played them for my family, they said, 'That doesn't even sound like you.'

Prince Royce

#14. Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

Robert Jay Lifton

#15. If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.

Joan Of Arc

#16. The Council of Schools has said that there are no mysteries.

Ayn Rand

#17. Thomas Goodwin said that "next to the Bible, he esteemed Dr. Ames, his Marrow of Divinity, as the best book in the world.

Joel R. Beeke

#18. It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way to remain ignorant about how factory farm animals are treated.

Steve-O

#19. The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.

Carrie Ryan

#20. I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details.

Hendrik Poinar

#21. I just wish," she said, "that this magnificent, stupendous God of yours could give a fuck.

Michel Faber

#22. I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

Billy West

#23. My father had a similar saying. He said that in heaven there's a huge cake reserved solely for married people who've never once regretted getting married. The cake's never been touched.

Bernardo Atxaga

#24. Antigone: We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.
Ismene: Who said that?
Antigone: Hegel.
Ismene: Sounds more like Beckett.
Antigone: He was paraphrasing Hegel.
Ismene: I don't think so.

Anne Carson

#25. It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Denis Diderot

#26. Never let it be said that dialect is a reflection of intellect.
On the contrary, it is a reflection of the deep traditional values of a culture that respects family, God, and a
language system above everything else. I give thanks to my maker that I'm a Southern woman.

Patricia H. Graham

#27. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

David Bowie

#28. God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

Tom Spanbauer

#29. People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

Skeet Ulrich

#30. I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.'

Muhammad Ali

#31. Kraunauer was waiting for me, standing next to the same young and serious agent who had brought us up. "I'm beginning to believe," Kraunauer said, "that Detective Anderson may not like you.

Jeff Lindsay

#32. A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied But my computer revolves around the world

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#33. On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.

Eduard Hanslick

#34. Oh shit, she'd done that wrong, hadn't she? She'd said that wrong, he didn't understand what she meant. She'd thought he would know, that he'd be able to read between the lines and understand, but what if he hadn't? SHould she say more? But how much more?

Stacia Kane

#35. Crime? I was in trouble because a man had said I was not clean there. He was lying. He only said that because he was not clean there and I told him we should shower before we fucked.

Chris Bohjalian

#36. Someone said that intelligence would be needed in the party. He was right. I think I shall come with you.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#37. My father, an occasionally wise man, once said that we were blessed only when the gods remained ignorant of us.

Raymond E. Feist

#38. We can't say what God is, and until the modern period, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians in the three God religions all knew that. They insisted that we have no idea what we meant when we said that God was good, or wise, or intelligent.

Karen Armstrong

#39. I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

Megan Abbott

#40. In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.

Gore Vidal

#41. Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

Bruce Babbitt

#42. Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

Idries Shah

#43. It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

Henry David Thoreau

#44. G. K. Chesterton once said that to be thankful is the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Thanklessness, then,must be the lowest form of thought, and ingratitude is discontentment, bankrupted of wonder.

Ravi Zacharias

#45. We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.

Ahmet Davutoglu

#46. Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region ... No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.

Ali Khamenei

#47. During the last century a seven-year-old boy, Harry Service, was lost from his family's home in Manitoba and lived for two weeks with a badger in its underground den. When he was found he said that the badger had brought him food several times ...

Sally Carrighar

#48. In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.

Kate Del Castillo

#49. Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food.

Mark Forsyth

#50. I never said that. The fact is we are going to open over hundreds of stores this year and next and increase employment by over 5,000 jobs worldwide. And, we have no plans to cut team hours as a result of the Affordable Care Act.

John Schnatter

#51. We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

Thabo Mbeki

#52. I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

David Cassidy

#53. Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

Coco Chanel

#54. Paulo Coelho once said that following your dream is like learning a foreign language; you will make mistakes but you will get there in the end.

Paulo Coelho

#55. Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nightingales don't know anything about the music!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#56. Mark Twain said that, outside of Vienna, all coffee was merely liquid poverty, Sarah commented.

Magnus Flyte

#57. With respect to excellence of style and composition, it may perhaps be said that to practised ears the most pleasing music is such as has the merit of novelty, added to refinement, and ingenious contrivance; and to the ignorant, such as is most familiar and common.

Charles Burney

#58. I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters, however, can never reproduce sunlight as it really is. I can only approach the truth of it.

Joaquin Sorolla

#59. Wrinkles was her big gray cat. Sierra named him Wrinkles because when he was a little baby he had a wrinkly face. He slept in Sierra's room, but not always on the bed. Mommy said that was 'cause Wrinkles had an attitude. Most cats had attitudes, actually.

Karen Kingsbury

#60. My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#61. Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.

Thomas Sowell

#62. Hank spoke. "I'm sorry."
"You said that."
A small laugh escaped his mouth. "Yeah, but I didn't mean it then.

Aria Kane

#63. You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had.
I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson.
"Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.

Melissa Bank

#64. It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.

Terry Goodkind

#65. She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.

Emily Giffin

#66. It's been said that every institution is nothing but the extended shadow of one person.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#67. Whoever said that love is blind, it was wrong; vanity is more certain to be blind.

Mathias Aires

#68. In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.

Christopher Darden

#69. Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was OK the way I was. That it was all right to be strong.

Wangari Maathai

#70. It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes
until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway,
critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove
him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works
of genius?

James N. Frey

#71. I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.

Jane Austen

#72. I can't say this too often - that a little humor can make life worth living. That has always been my credo. Somebody once asked me, 'What would you like your epitaph to be?' I've always said that I'd like it to be: He left people a little happier than they were when he came into the room.

Bennett Cerf

#73. Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

Horace Mann

#74. Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

Vanessa Paradis

#75. I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

Harry S. Truman

#76. I'm a great fan of Chesterton, you know. He once said that he became a Catholic because we're the only religion that sees no contradiction between a pint, a pipe, and a cross.

Michael D. O'Brien

#77. Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.

C.L.R. James

#78. I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.

Muhammad Yunus

#79. Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE!
Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you're over here like this?
Calvin: ... I don't think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.

Bill Watterson

#80. Who was it that said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?

Donna Tartt

#81. He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend together; but those who have no such skill act as judges of the contest.

Diogenes Laertius

#82. It is said that true tricstkers can make trouble between two pans in a kitchen.

George Webbe Dasent

#83. God said that He Himself will take care of us; we are to only serve Him

Sunday Adelaja

#84. And she said that sometimes you wish for something very hard, it can kind of come true inside your own head, and it can seem real.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

#85. I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

Will Rogers

#86. Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

Arundhati Roy

#87. I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

Dane DeHaan

#88. My wife has said that a bitter, sour Christian
is one of Satan's greatest trophies - and she's right.

Billy Graham

#89. Aristotle said that only two living entities are capable of complete solitude and complete separateness: God and beast. Because of this the most acute form of suffering for human beings is loneliness.

Chris Hedges

#90. The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.

Norm MacDonald

#91. A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

Ram Dass

#92. He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn't happen to you every year.

Terry Pratchett

#93. My grandma always said that we need music in our lives so we'll know how heaven sounds when the angels sing." Maggie

Helaine Mario

#94. Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

Lord Byron

#95. I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

Katharine Tynan

#96. No, No, NoooooooOOOOO ... You never did said that.... fucking liar and fucking faggot.

Deyth Banger

#97. It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

Christopher Bram

#98. Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

Rita Mae Brown

#99. It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live.
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Rachel Naomi Remen

#100. I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

George McGovern