Someone Said Quotes

#1. Someone said to me ... 'A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. So why don't you just make the request? Why don't you just say, Could we work out this thing that makes me feel this way?'

Diane Sawyer

#2. Someone said, Love has nothing best. I said, What is better in rest.

Rakesh Wadhwani

#3. Someone said: I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.

Simon Van Booy

#5. If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

Sting

#6. Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.

Rebecca Taylor

#7. I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.'

Simon Cowell

#8. With great freedom comes great responsibility, someone said once, well, it doesn't work the other way around.

Antoine Wilson

#9. 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

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. It's been so long since someone said my name that way, like it was a revelation and not a threat.

Veronica Roth

#12. Someone said it better than that; be true unto yourself. Self, right? No-one else. If everyone was true unto his or her self there might even be a chance of something better for us all.

Bryan Islip

#13. The link economy encourages bloggers to repeat what "other people are saying" and link to it instead of doing their own reporting and standing behind it. This changes the news from what has happened into what someone said the news is.

Ryan Holiday

#14. Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name.

Emayatzy Corinealdi

#15. My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#16. You don't get many chances in life to make a movie, and if someone says they don't like it, I say, 'I do'. I've made records before, and if someone said it sucked, it bummed me out.

Dito Montiel

#17. The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

George Carlin

#18. I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice.

Sophia Myles

#19. 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

#20. Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.

Michael Caine

#21. I will forever be a Bond. It's a small group of men who've made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.'

Pierce Brosnan

#22. The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.

Donal Logue

#23. At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid

Annette Messager

#24. I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

Richard Gere

#25. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?

Red Skelton

#26. What is certain is that I am not a Marxist, as someone said a long time ago, let us recall, in a witticism reported by Engels. Must we still cite Marx as an authority in order to say "I am not a Marxist"?

Jacques Derrida

#27. Someone said the rain would mean nothing if thirst had never been named.

Adam Clay

#28. It's been a tough year ... Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that challenges you makes you pull yourself together.

Robin Williams

#29. A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days - but as someone said the other say. 'Trace, you're going to have to face facts. You and normal parted a lomg, long time ago.

Tracey Emin

#30. Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

Umberto Eco

#31. I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'

Demi Moore

#32. I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

Jason Blum

#33. Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.

Ted Solotaroff

#34. When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'.

Confucius

#35. If all of a sudden someone said, 'You have five more kids,' I'd be totally OK with it.

Sandra Bullock

#36. Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Brooke Shields

#37. A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Sheldon Vanauken

#38. At a trade show, someone said, "You'll get in trouble for that." I replied,"Are they going to call the trade show police?

Tim Fargo

#39. I am not Spock. But given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock. If someone said, "You can have the choice of being any other TV character ever played," I would choose Spock. I like him. I admire him. I respect him

Leonard Nimoy

#40. I'll go [racing] until my body won't let me any more. Someone said to me: "The day you stop, you won't be able to get back on the same way as when you did as a pro." I want to delay that kiss goodbye as long as possible.

David Millar

#41. Someone said that our goals keep us going, but it's our dreams that make us tick. So if you disconnect your goals from your dreams, don't be surprised if one morning you realize that your life is on autopilot.

Ray N. Kuili

#42. I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing is that seems so major in your life, when a real disaster hits you suddenly strips it all away and you see what's really important and who you really are.

Eli Roth

#43. Perfect Day:
It was a day filled with the glow of ordinary things & we passed them quietly from hand to hand for a long time & someone said she had picked a perfect day to be born & I think all of us felt the same.

Brian Andreas

#44. I haven't been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

Charlotte Eriksson

#45. I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will wait for that erotic moment - like the one which struck me when someone said "have you ever heard of Kester Berwick?"

Robert Dessaix

#46. I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

Caroll Spinney

#47. Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

Marilyn Monroe

#48. One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

Shania Twain

#49. After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, 'Oh well, let's go see it.' I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.

Johnny Depp

#50. Someone said it's not wrong to have things. It's wrong when your things have you.

Craig Groeschel

#51. A few public hangings will really change behavior. One of our Presidents said if he could execute three people each year for no cause, it would make it a lot easier to govern. When someone said that's not enough, he said, "Oh yes it is, because I'd publish the list of people under consideration."

Charlie Munger

#52. Patting mother Theresa on the back, someone said to her: 'i wouldn't do what you do for a million dollars.' She said with a grin: 'me neither.

Shane Claiborne

#53. If someone said, "Would you like to do the period drama?," I'd say, "Hell, yeah! I'd love to do that!" To dig into history and do a story in some period would be great.

Steve Pink

#54. Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, No you can't.

Marc Maron

#55. I remember," someone said, "how in ancient times one could turn a wolf into a human and then lecture it to one's heart's content.

Charles Simic

#56. Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?"

Doug Graham

#57. Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

Jam Master Jay

#58. What do you privately consult about?"
Haunted houses, exorcisms, that sort of thing," he answered.
Wow. You're like-"
Don't say it."
-Giles from Buffy."
He rolled his eyes. "If I had a quarter for every time someone said
that.

Rhiannon Frater

#59. Don't give up just because of what someone said. Use it as motivation to push harder.

Zig Ziglar

#60. I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an
anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

Banksy

#61. Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and they're back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done.

Andrew Dominik

#62. The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

John Green

#63. Someone said: friends are the thiefs of time. I shall add: of time, freedom, life; and givers of best memories, brightest moments, true feelings.

Mykyta Isagulov

#64. I really, honest to God, didn't know what to read until I was out of college and living in Boston, and someone said, 'Well, why don't you read Hemingway?' And I thought, 'OK. I guess I'll try this Hemingway fellow.'

Tom Drury

#65. I walked two hours to an audition once and was so sweaty that someone said, 'Oh, you guys from New Zealand don't shower.'

Martin Henderson

#66. I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

Michelle Dockery

#67. I remember someone said to me, "Never stand up when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down, never lie down when you can be asleep." Those are bits of advice that I haven't taken, really. I've done the opposite of them, but they have stayed with me.

Michael Sheen

#68. When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

Kaitlyn Dever

#69. Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic.

Paul Horowitz

#70. You are loved, someone said. Take that and eat it.

Mary Karr

#71. If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Gilles Villeneuve

#72. When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

Linda Ellerbee

#73. Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

Allison Janney

#74. Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

Mike Birbiglia

#75. It was like a broken slot machine in the casino that pays off every time. It would keep paying off until someone said something about it; but no one who played the slot machine had any interest in pointing out that it was broken.

Michael Lewis

#76. Someone said it right 'common sense is not common'.
#assholeseverywhere

Lovely Goyal

#77. All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

William Hazlitt

#78. People. You're not crazy if there really are robot insects listening to every word you say."

Someone said, "I fucking told you

Warren Ellis

#79. A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind.

Keanu Reeves

#80. Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

T. S. Eliot

#81. Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine
Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime
Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time
I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.

Frank Sinatra

#82. I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

Norbert Leo Butz

#83. Why us?" he said. "Why is it happening to us?"
"Everything has to happen to someone," said Ginger.

Terry Pratchett

#84. Someone said, "Backsliding is not a blowout. It's a slow leak.

Don Sisk

#85. At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

Robert Stone

#86. Someone said you can't trust happiness.' 'Who was that idiot?' I shrugged. 'Let yourself be happy, Neal.

Barbara Morgenroth

#87. If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.

Lindsay Duncan

#88. I was leaving the hotel to get to the fight when my phone went and someone said 'Hello Ricky, it's Tom'. I said 'Tom who?' and when he said 'Tom Jones' I told him to eff off! I thought it was a wind-up!

Ricky Hatton

#89. If someone said 'diametrically,' could 'opposed' be far behind?

Meg Wolitzer

#90. I'd be flattered if someone said that my work is "too weird" for them. I value the uncompliment.

Kelly Link

#91. The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I'm deeply invested - probably overly so - in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course.

Meghan Daum

#92. Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.

Elsa Maxwell

#93. I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)

Elizabeth Peters

#94. If "Manners maketh man," as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself, no matter what they say."
(Englishman in New York)

Sting

#95. Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

Craig Groeschel

#96. I had a bunch of paintings around at my house, and someone said to me, 'Why don't you just put them on Instagram? Why don't you show people these?' And I didn't want to - it was just something else I would have to do. But eventually, I was like, 'What's the harm?' And the response was so insane!

Alison Mosshart

#97. I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.

Anja Niedringhaus

#98. Ron Paul, who, as someone said, wouldn't have regulated a sewer pipe running through his child's playroom.

Jane Smiley

#99. Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not willingly go to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone said, "Salvation is free, but not cheap." It cost Jesus His life.

Billy Graham

#100. You know, if Chyna had a nipple for every time someone said she was the breast looking woman here, she'd be a millionaire!

Triple H