Said'you Quotes

#1. One time Yates and I were playing a game.

'Yates,' I said, 'you're going to win!'

'Maybe we could all win,' he said.

'No,' I said, 'we cannot all win. There is a winner and a loser. Losing is an incentive to keep practicing.

Megyn Kelly

#2. Whoever said you can't love ridiculous things? God knows i love you, and you're the most ridiculous woman I ever met!

Richard Yates

#3. There's nothing you can say, child," Sora said. "You are stronger for it, the things you have suffered through. But what will you leave in your wake? I see wounds that will not heal, wherever you go.

Charles Hash

#4. Nico knelt and picked it up. He regarded Jason, as if waiting for an attack. "If the others found out-" "If the others found out," Jason said, "you'd have that many more people to back you up, and to unleash the fury of the gods on anybody who gives you trouble.

Rick Riordan

#5. I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.

Rickey Henderson

#6. Three years ago we said you'd have to think long and hard about hiring a recruiter with less than a couple of hundred LinkedIn connections. Now the same holds true for candidates in general.

Kris Dunn

#7. I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.

Kami Garcia

#9. What did you say?" "I said, you've become an emotional coward.

Melissa F. Hart

#10. What are you thinking, Bliss?
I should have said, you. Naked. That would have shocked him. Not that I was actually thinking of him naked ... well, now that I mentioned it I was ... damn.

Cora Carmack

#11. I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.

Justin Chadwick

#12. She always said you can't help people with magic, but you can help them with skin. By doin' real things, she meant.

Terry Pratchett

#13. But I don't get the connection.
Dr. Finch put his hands on the table. 'That's because you haven't looked,' he said. 'You've never opened your eyes.

Harper Lee

#14. Imagine that it's sugar," Korbyn said. 'You're riding across candy.'
"Salt can never be sugar," Fennik said.
"We should talk about the definition of the word 'imagine'.

Sarah Beth Durst

#15. I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

Cameron Crowe

#16. But sometimes he's right. 'Nothing happens if you just dream,' he said. 'You need the motivation to make your dreams reality.

Hiroshi Yamamoto

#17. Just do what you were going to do, before you said you were going to do it.

Delma Pryce

#18. There's more to everything that what's obvious," he always said. "You just have to look for it.

D.J. MacHale

#19. Then he was done. He pulled away, rolled onto his back. "I'm sorry," he said. "You're welcome," she said. She believed in answering what people meant, not what they said.

Orson Scott Card

#20. I think I had really good parents. I got really lucky. They said, 'You're a woman; enjoy yourself and believe that you can do things.'

Emily Ratajkowski

#21. Hello?" "Hazel said you're not coming in. You okay?" "Uh . . ." "Are you sick?" "No." "Then why aren't you coming to work?" "I have a bad case of awkward as fuck." "Because I kissed you?" he asked, incensed.

Jamie McGuire

#22. You said you freed me, but freedom isn't defined by chains or walls. You, alive, with me. That's my freedom.

Pam Godwin

#23. Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?

Andrew Davidson

#24. My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'

Bernie Mac

#25. I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.

Stephen Chbosky

#26. The best way to break free from entitlement eating is to adopt a biblical perspective of life. God never said, "You deserve the good life, and of course you have a right to eat." Instead, He said, "If you want to follow me, you have to be willing to give up everything.

Barb Raveling

#27. Total commitment," I said. "You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

Sarah Dessen

#28. I was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I asked him, 'Well, was I really crazy?' And he nodded and said, 'You were but not any more.'

Mickey Rourke

#29. I'll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: 'You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you're famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too.'

Rob Lowe

#30. Hee hee hee!" Nero said. "You children are like three clowns!"
"Ho ho ho!" Count Olaf said.
"Ha ha ha!" Violet said, who was beginning to feel queasy from faking all this laughter.

Lemony Snicket

#31. You're not being tried by common sense," Horace said. "You're being tried by a jury.

William Faulkner

#32. Except that stopping midsentence is the worst thing people can do. It's like, totally passive-aggressive, because you can't take issue with anything they've said. You have to take issue with what you think they were going to say. Which then they deny.

Sophie Kinsella

#33. Wicked and cruel boy! I said. You are like a murderer - you are like a slave-driver - you are like the Roman emperors!

Charlotte Bronte

#34. I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been said, you know; it's like we have to agree with God.

Andrae Crouch

#35. A voice in me said, You have to rise to the occasion or the best in you will die. We always have that voice; we just have to make a choice to listen to it. We all have it; that's God's given light. It's just whether you have the courage to step into your destiny.

Lily Yeh

#36. Of course it's your fault," Grandma said. "You must be doing something wrong, if you know what I mean. Maybe you need to buy a book that tells you how to do it. I hear there are books out there with pictures and everything. I saw one in the store the other day. It was called A Sex Guide for Dummies.

Janet Evanovich

#37. Teacher: Where is your homework? Billy: I lost it fighting this kid who said you weren't the best teacher in the school.

Various

#38. Who was it who had said you were only as happy as your unhappiest child?

Jojo Moyes

#39. When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?

Khaled Hosseini

#40. There's something very ... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with a man?' Another shake. 'I thought so,' Yay said. 'You're strange, Gurgeh.' She drained her glass.

Iain Banks

#41. As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them.
Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

George Plimpton

#42. I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?"
A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway."
"While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.

Gena Showalter

#43. Well, as I said, you look terrible, for one thing. Beat-up terrible. Like someone was using you as a punching bag." He ran a hand gently over his face. "Is it really that bad?" He sighed as I nodded. "Is that the only reason for your concern, Dr. Fisher?" He paused in between bites.

J.M. Richards

#44. I'm your Creator", I said. "You're in the middle of a book right now-close to the end of it, actually.

Kurt Vonnegut

#45. He brought both hands up and said, You can speak the old-fashioned way. I can hear you, remember? I blinked at him and after a few seconds brought my hands up. If it's okay with you, I'd like to speak your language. I smiled a small smile.

Mia Sheridan

#46. Don't be an idiot," Terric said. "You were unconscious less than ten minutes ago."
"And you were a dick. One of us got better.

Devon Monk

#47. I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK' ... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.

Brea Grant

#48. Voltaire said you know who is in control by what you can't say.

Kris Saknussemm

#49. When I was around 19 years old, working in the college library, I was talking to a friend of mine and this older woman interrupted and said "You're too young to know about Billie Holiday." My response was "I'm too young to know about Shakespeare, too ... should I not read him?

Wanda Lea Brayton

#50. It's often said you don't choose who you fall in love with, which I believe to be true. I also believe you don't choose what you fall in love with.

Daniel Bryan

#51. You cannot write if you do not read,' the blind man said. 'You cannot eat if you do not chew. And you cannot play if you do not' - he grabbed for the boy's hand - 'listen.

Mitch Albom

#52. You should've let me twist his head off," Mahon said. "You can't let people insult your wife, Curran. One day you'll have to choose diplomacy or your spouse. I'm telling you now, it's got to be your wife. Diplomacy doesn't care if you live or die. Your wife does.

Ilona Andrews

#53. I was very soft. I gained a lot of weight with my second child and was very on the couch. And [me manager ] said, "You know, this is a softer role [in Misteress]. She is a softer character. She's a lesbian that's always the passive half of the relationship."

Shannyn Sossamon

#54. You can wish or you can do." That's what the dean always said. "You might have done the wrong thing in the first place, but you don't have to do the wrong thing in the second place." That's way I always said.

Siri Mitchell

#55. They were somewhere near Chelyabinsk 56, someone said. You don't want to go there, a Russian added. One of Stalin's biggest messes.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#56. My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.

Elayne Boosler

#57. Don't get your hopes up.
I needed someone today.
Darkness said you'd do.

Lisa Schroeder

#58. So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first.' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest.'

Tim Vine

#59. She had said: 'You could not hate anyone that much -' She was mistaken. What did she know? She felt so good right now, this must be hate, what else could it be?
("Mind Over Murder")

Cornell Woolrich

#60. He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

J.D. Salinger

#61. [Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.

Miriam Makeba

#62. Everybody said, 'You hit it so big when you were on 'Ally McBeal.' ' I didn't do anything for a year after 'Ally McBeal,' and I had to write David Kelley to get myself back on 'Ally' a second time because I thought the character should be on again.

Josh Ryan Evans

#63. I'm not having sex with you. Not willingly. If you starve me, strangle me, whip me or tie me to the bed, it'll be rape, which you said you wouldn't do. I draw the line at fucking a psycho kidnapping dickwad who makes me strip, kneel, crawl and call him Master.

Linda Barlow

#64. When you said you were giving her a ring, I wanted to make sure she didn't eat it by accident. Who puts a ring in a muffin?

H.M. Ward

#65. You just got to out there and flow, like Bruce Lee said, you got to be like water.

Cub Swanson

#66. There's one thing that's true at least," he said. "You dwarfs really love gold, don't you?" "Of course we don't. Don't be silly." "Well - " "We just say that to get it into bed.

Terry Pratchett

#67. When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

Beck

#68. It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.

Rachael Harris

#69. Win," Leo said, "you'll burn the house down, just after it's been rebuilt. Give me the bloody matchbox."
She shook her head resolutely.
Are we starting a new springtime ritual?" Leo demanded. "The annual burning-of-the-manse?" Come to your senses, Win.

Lisa Kleypas

#70. They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

Al Davis

#71. -Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?" I realized it was only one chance in a million.

J.D. Salinger

#72. Pharrell is a person who has influenced the world. I see myself in him, so I said, 'You're an alpha, and I'm an alpha, and I want to be able to express myself in every way, like you do.'

Shameik Moore

#73. If you know everything, then how could you have troubles? You said you can see through to the answers to everything. Even though you can see through everything, there are still things you don't know? I found that to be so strange ... Perhaps you can't really see through everything?

Aki

#74. Of course,' I said, 'you know her so much better than I ever did.'
In some ways,' he said gloomily, and I knew he was thinking of the very ways in which I had known her the best.

Graham Greene

#75. You bastards, she said. You lovely bastards.

Markus Zusak

#76. Isolfr," Frithulf said, "you weigh a hundred stone."
"Do I? Sorry," and he tried to straighten, but nothing was working.
Frithulf swore and said,"Kari, I think I'm going to need you to get his feet."
Are they running away? Isolfr wanted to ask.

Sarah Monette

#77. No duh, Susan said. You are like a walking vault of things you don't tell people. People who have secrets should pay you to hold on to them for them. You could be like a secret bank.

Chelsea Cain

#78. Tom said, "You should go. You could use a friend." It was not anything I had not thought myself. Still, hearing it aloud made me feel pitiable, and I had no wish to be, and so I...set off for a luncheon I did not much want to attend." p 233

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#79. Sure, why not?" she said. "You know, you read about a crime in the paper and you think how terrible for the victims, and then you turn the page and move on.

Tami Hoag

#80. So you vampires living forever," I said. "You must need lot of hobbies to keep from going completely mad. My grandma swears by knitting. Do you knit, Francis?"
"I do not," said Francis.
"Ah," I said. "Do you crochet?" This time he didn't bother to answer.

Justine Larbalestier

#81. You," I tell her. "As I said, you've bewitched me for a long time.

Karina Halle

#82. I said you were beautiful. I slept in your bed!

Stephanie Perkins

#83. All communication is manipulation," Jedao said. "You're a mathematician. You should know that from information theory.

Yoon Ha Lee

#84. Clara Winter," he said. "You are a word person and don't ever forget it."
He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.

Alison McGhee

#85. You will have only one story," she had said. "You'll write your one story many ways. Don't ever worry about story. You have only one.

Elizabeth Strout

#86. I suspect you're thinking of Pascal,' Finkler said, finally.'Only he said the opposite. He said you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn't exist, you've nothing to lose. Whereas if you wager against God and He does exist ... '
'You're in the shit.

Howard Jacobson

#87. She said you were probably plastic and Uncle Kevin said he'd give you a feel and let her know and then Uncle Joe punched him in the shoulder and said the only thing he'd feel is his A-S-S getting kicked if he tried.

Shannon Stacey

#88. No," I said. "You're not a Yankee imperialist?" she prodded. "Certainly not," I told her. "I come from Ireland." "Holland," she said, frowning. "No,

Valerie Hemingway

#89. We are welcomed to your city, added Princess Cora with a curtsy and a cherubic smile.
Kell shot Rhy a look that said, 'Honestly? This is the girl you're so afraid of?'
Rhy shot him one back that said, 'You should be, too'.

Victoria Schwab

#90. Leo. Jason said, you're wierd. Yeah, you tell me that a lot. Leo grinned. But if you don't remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes. Come on!

Rick Riordan

#91. Folks who said you were a coward if you ran away from a fight usually didn't live long themselves.

Jennifer Estep

#92. She said, You may be able to implant an image, even a taste or a smell, but I don't think you can implant the feelings that went with the experience that created the memory.

Brian Falkner

#93. This week Bill Clinton tweeted a photo of himself reading George W. Bush's new book '41.' Then George W. Bush responded to that post on Instagram. Then John McCain said 'You two are hilarious' by telegraph.

Jimmy Fallon

#94. 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."

Benjamin Spock

#95. Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?" I asked him.
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you?

Sarah Dessen

#96. I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I don't believe in anything. And that makes me stronger than you think

Anne Rice

#97. He must have seen her shock, because he said, You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.

Kristine Grayson

#98. A flush of anger crimsoned the old lady's pale face. It looked dead no longer. "Hold your tongue," she said. "You are rude." And Miss Gladwyn did hold her tongue, but nothing else, for she was laughing all over.

George MacDonald

#99. Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

Walter Bagehot

#100. Don't blame me. The devil made me do it, and the Lord said you have to forgive.

Wes Fesler