Top 100 Said To Quotes
#1. Perhaps the funniest example is that of the Rev. Milton Barfoot, who said to Dan's brother, in apparently honest bafflement, "But, isn't Dan afraid of hell?" No, Reverend, Dan doesn't believe in hell anymore, that's one of the things about being an atheist, you see.
Dan Barker
#2. My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
N. Scott Momaday
#3. I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.
Marilyn Manson
#4. Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph.
Roger Deakins
#5. It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.
Henry Reed
#6. 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
#7. People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
Ed Koch
#8. Music appeared later. At first I was making people laugh with my funny stories. Live and on TV too. It was great, but I started to think that people will soon get bored from it. I have said to myself: "If you are going to go on being a superstar, you have to sing!"
Verka Serduchka
#9. I understand why you do your job," my mother said to me. "There's a sense of accomplishment when you take down someone bad. It's like being a police officer or being in the Army or being a mother. You have a responsibility to protect and keep order, and you do whatever it takes to get that done.
Janet Evanovich
#10. They told me to just "act like myself." When I said, "How do I do that?" they said to just have fun with it, but I'm not sure what they meant.
Steve Martin
#11. Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
Ozzy Osbourne
#12. Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.
Paul McCartney
#13. Dad at breakfast today being very quiet. I notice he is clean shaven. I said to him, 'Vati, what has happened to the little beaver that used to live on the end of your chin?
Louise Rennison
#14. He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
Chris Bohjalian
#15. [Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
#16. One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"
And a little later you added:
"You know
one loves the sunset, when one is so sad ... "
"Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"
But the little prince made no reply.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#17. Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die .
Giordano Bruno
#18. An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
Anatole France
#19. And this is what your son said,' the angel told the man. 'These are the words he said to the rabbi at that point, and they have never been forgotten: "My Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof. But only speak a word and my servant will be healed.
Paulo Coelho
#20. That that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same, for that only which is present, is that, which either of them can lose, as being that only which they have; for that which he hath not, no man can truly be said to lose.
Marcus Aurelius
#21. The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.
Roald Dahl
#22. She seemed to be trying to take in what Kay had said to her: this bizarre, dangerous advice about telling the truth
J.K. Rowling
#23. You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.
Rachel Caine
#24. I am somewhat proud of this," Mab's cold voice said. "To be sure, the White Christ never suffered so long or so terribly as did this traitor. Three days on a tree. Hardly enough time for a prelude. When it came to visiting agony, the Romans were hobbyists.
Jim Butcher
#25. He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does it mean anything to you?'
It is something he would say from time to time-that the eye could be misled, but that the heart was true.
Libba Bray
#26. You think of me like a book?'
'Of course,' she said. 'To open your pages is to be taken into another world.
Beatrice Colin
#27. Sir, no insult intended, but you said to me once that you don't like kiss-asses and that you'd rather work with people challenging your perceptions.
Mario Stinger
#28. I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back control.'
Michael Gove
#29. I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families
our ancestors
are our identities. Biology is destiny.
I'm not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I'd seen him. Maybe I wasn't who I'd thought I was either.
Aimee Friedman
#30. E.T., who said to Phyllis Diller, You look weird. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#31. And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.
Louis Aragon
#32. A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
Joseph Lancaster
#33. You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!
Maya Angelou
#34. Enough of what?
Enough of behaving as you do.
Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what you sister said to me when
Cassandra Clare
#35. 45When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling. 46"It is written," he said to them, " 'My house will be a house of prayer'[63]; but you have made it 'a den of robbers.
Anonymous
#36. When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.
David Alan Basche
#37. But," she said to the priest, "I'm not dead yet. I've heard the angels farting on the ceiling.
Jean Genet
#38. We found the bathrooms, which were labeled 'Aliens' and 'Femaliens.'
'Finally,' I said to J.Lo. 'Here's a bathroom you're allowed to use.
Adam Rex
#39. Don't even try to stop me from seeing her, Krychek," he said to the cardinal, who still hadn't spilled Silver 's location. "I'm bigger and meaner than you."
Krychek raised an eyebrow. "Bigger, yes. Meaner? Let's leave that an open question.
Nalini Singh
#40. It would be wonderful if all the salmon we eat could be wild. But as one marine ecologist said to me recently, to continue to eat large wild fish at the rate we've been eating them we would need "four or five" oceans to support the crrent human population.
Paul Greenberg
#41. Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
John Gabriel Stedman
#42. She had personal details about my relationships that only my close friends should have known. "So you've got a stalker," I said to my reflection in the rearview mirror. "And she eats people. Great.
Craig Schaefer
#44. 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
#45. I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
Robert Jordan
#46. His colleagues learned to appreciate him for it. "When people don't talk so much they don't dish out the crap either," one of his older workmates said to him one afternoon down on the track. And Ove nodded. Some got it and some didn't. There
Fredrik Backman
#47. Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
Hans Jonas
#48. The one whose ego of doer-ship in the unfolding karma effect (oodai no garva) is gone; he is said to have attained the Self.
Dada Bhagwan
#49. THE STAGGERING QUESTION "He said to me, 'Son of man, can these bones live?'" Ezekiel 37:3 Can a sinner be turned into a saint? Can a twisted life be made right? There is only one appropriate answer - "O Lord God, You know" (37:3).
Oswald Chambers
#50. As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#51. I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.
Brooke Burke
#52. I do not remember much of that illness, except that I woke to find my head in Emile's lap. She looked into my eyes.
'You are a fool,' she said. It was the nicest thing she'd said to me in two years.
Christian Cameron
#53. Fine, as the tailor said to the broke and naked knight, suit yourself.
Christopher Moore
#54. Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.
Dorothy Kilgallen
#55. If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropologist?'
Alan Greenspan
#56. It was a sunny, beautiful day.a day you felt good to be alive. Tobad amy Cahill was surrounded by the dead. Amy bowed her head and squeezed Her eyes shut. She was only sixteen, but she had attended too many funerals. She had said to many goodbyes
Jude Watson
#57. Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be
Anne Leonard
#58. 'Someone's gonna die before this is over,' I said to Doc McGhee. [...]
'I don't think someone's gonna die, Ozzy. I think we're all gonna die.'
Ozzy Osbourne
#59. You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.
Paullina Simons
#60. When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.
Goran Ivanisevic
#61. Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, "I love you, sweetheart." She responded rather blandly: "I know." I asked, "How do you know that I love you?" Because! You're my grandfather!
Russell M. Nelson
#62. We're just cogs in a machine really, aren't we?" Miss Fawcett said to her and Ursula said, "But remember, without the cog there is no machine.
Kate Atkinson
#63. The road climbed into the mountains, Jonah taking the hairpin curves as fast as he dared.
"You look so macho clutching the door handle that way," he said to Hamilton.
"Just ... be ... careful," Hamilton said through clenched teeth.
Jude Watson
#64. I only know two things in life for certain: I know I love her and I know when her memory of our time together fades, I'll still feel exactly the same as I do today. Time is irrelevant, as I once said to her. And I'm happy wasting every second of it on her.
Kelly Moran
#65. What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
Simon Newcomb
#66. He looks," Simon had once said to Isabelle, "like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face.
Cassandra Clare
#67. Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
Josh Billings
#68. 21Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?" 22Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. [87] 23"Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king
Anonymous
#69. She said to embrace each change as if it were a small death.
Suzanne Morrison
#70. Oh, my friend, have I not said to you all along that I have no proofs. It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so. And, in this case, there is terribly little evidence. That is the whole trouble.
Agatha Christie
#71. These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been responsible for. But would we have not been better off as a species without them?
Adam Nevill
#72. I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
Pierce Brosnan
#73. My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'
Beverly Johnson
#74. What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.
Gerry Francis
#75. The learned are said to have seeing eyes;The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.
Thiruvalluvar
#76. Tabaqui the Jackal must have bitten all these people, he said to himself,
Rudyard Kipling
#77. When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.
Daniel Klein
#78. You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.
Katherine Paterson
#79. Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)
Peter Sellers
#80. Jesus said to them, 'My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work'" (John 4:34).
Anonymous
#81. But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.
Sarah Waters
#82. Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirts, Rob. You need white, and you need black.' 'What about blue,' I asked. He said, 'Have you ever seen Cary Grant in a blue dress shirt?'
Rob Lowe
#83. I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'
Harriet Tubman
#84. Valek leaned back in his chair and said to me, "I don't think I would have made it past the audition,Yelena. I probably would have set my hair on fire by this point."
"What's a singed head for the sake of art?" I teased. He laughed.
Maria V. Snyder
#85. In monasteries of old, the monk's dharma, his purpose in life, was said to be this: to support the choir. In Latin, propter chorum. Literally, his life was lived "in support of the choir." He was not a soloist. He was not a diva. He was part of a magnificent whole.
Stephen Cope
#86. I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.
Louis Freeh
#87. People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.
David Bohm
#88. By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#89. As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.
Mara Liasson
#90. Lookee here, Pip, at what is said to you by a true friend. Which this to you the true friend say. If you can't get to be on common through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.
Charles Dickens
#91. A man said to a Dervish: "Why do I not see you more often?" The Dervish replied, "Because the words 'Why have you not been to see me?' are sweeter to my ear than the words 'Why have you come again?
Robert Greene
#92. Malcolm looked warily at her. 'She may be dangerous,' he said to Julian. 'Then again, all women are dangerous.
Cassandra Clare
#93. The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.
Willie Stargell
#94. In America and Europe, it was said, people know what is going to happen when they turn on the water tap or flick on the light switch. In India, a land of few safe assumptions, chronic uncertainty was said to have helped produce a nation of quick-witted, creative problem-solvers.
Katherine Boo
#95. When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.
Henry Rollins
#96. I'll be fast. I can make you come in two minutes."
"I can do that myself. I never get to see you anymore- I'd rather talk to you"
That had to be the most romantic things anyone had ever said to me, and I went all gooshy inside.
Jordan Castillo Price
#97. Beatriz loved him?
"I have to love her back for the rest of my life," he said to himself. "It's the only gentlemanly thing to do.
Tiffany Reisz
#98. My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'
Archie Panjabi
#99. They've really begun the war," he said to himself. "And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies!
Natalie Babbitt
#100. I think you mother has Asperger's," Georgie had said to Neal.
"They didn't get Asperger's int he '50s."
"I'm just saying maybe she's on the the spectrum."
"She's just a math teacher.
Rainbow Rowell
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