Someone Says Quotes

#1. We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

Francine Prose

#2. No matter how much you've sinned, no matter how much you've stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you've got from God, don't give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.

Johnny Cash

#3. It's rarely good when someone says your full name, except perhaps when it's at the end of I have a package for.

Lemony Snicket

#4. You know when someone says, 'no offense,' I pointed out to him, 'the thing they say directly after that is always offensive

Ripley Patton

#5. Sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. Any conversation that takes place will be accidental.

James Anderson

#7. When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.

Winston Churchill

#8. You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group.

Jojo Moyes

#9. Painful memories come out of the blue whether someone says something or not," Andi replied. "It's always an eternity ago and always yesterday.

Connie Miller Pease

#10. I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

Maurice Sendak

#11. I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.

Diane Keaton

#12. When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

Martin Parr

#13. About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?

Arthur Smith

#14. I found in the past when I did a bit of punditry, I was very conscious of not saying anything negative about people I played against, because players are elephants and they remember when someone says something - I stored things for years and just waited for my opportunity.

Brian O'Driscoll

#15. If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

Chris Gethard

#16. It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#17. You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

Alan Titchmarsh

#18. Artists have to believe in the merit of their own work and persevere whether they receive public recognition or not, but it's ever so nice when someone says, "Job well done"!

Mary Pope Osborne

#19. I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

Gene Robinson

#20. Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

Jamie Zawinski

#21. One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a few minutes at a time. I'd never say that ADD/ADHD is a gift or a blessing. And if someone says it is a gift, I'd love to return it.

Howie Mandel

#22. Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Ray Bradbury

#23. In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.

Stanley Hauerwas

#24. Do me a favor, Princess," he whispered, his breath warm against her mouth. "The next time someone says they're going to kill you, don't just let them." She

Marissa Meyer

#25. Here's the path to sobriety: Play the Ron Paul drinking game. Watch CNN and take a drink every time someone says his name.

Doug Stanhope

#26. When someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster than a horse can trot.

Stephen King

#27. when someone says "I don't care" it's because he cares, strongly so

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#28. I think you're amazing,' someone says to someone else, but it doesn't matter who, because they're all amazing really. People are amazing.

David Nicholls

#29. Someone says 'inauguration' in my line of work, and you can just bet there'll be freaky shit. It's like quests. You get told to 'go forth and seek the travelcard of destiny' and you know, I mean, you seriously know that it won't have just been left down the back of the sofa.

Kate Griffin

#30. You know what we can be like: see a guy and think he's cute one minute, the next minute our brains have us married with kids, the following minute we see him having an extramarital affair. By the time someone says, 'I'd like you to meet Cecil,' we shout, 'You're late again with the child support!'

Cynthia Heimel

#31. I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.

Iris Apfel

#32. I'm a fighter, so when someone says 'no' to me, I try to figure out what I need to adjust to hear the yes.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

#33. When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#34. It's quite simple: If someone says UR beautiful, believe them. If someone says UR ugly, don't believe them.

RuPaul

#35. When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

Celia Green

#36. Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

Lady Gaga

#37. Xylophone is spelled with an X. That's wrong. It should be a Z up front. Next time you spell xylophone, use a Z. If someone says, "That's wrong!", you say, "No, it ain't." If you think that's wrong, then you need to have your head Z-rayed.

Mitch Hedberg

#38. But when someone says 'Paul Simon', don't you just inevitably think of a piece of wonder bread just sittin' there on a counter top?

Paul Simon

#39. Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

Martin Freeman

#40. The next time someone says "This sounds great, but I just don't have the TIME ... " Look them straight in the eye, smile warmly, and ask, "Would you like to change that?"

Jeff Olson

#41. I could tell you, but you should never trust what someone says about themselves. It's something you need to see for yourself.

Maria La Serra

#42. Related: if someone says "I'm not going to hurt you" or "I'm not a creep," they probably are. Noncreeps don't feel the need to say it all the time. Never

Lena Dunham

#43. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'

Cory Booker

#44. Ideally, what you would like to have eventually is such a unique and identifiable brand that when someone says 'Indiana State University,' they know exactly what that means. And that takes a long time coming.

Marc Edwards

#45. If someone says no, you're talking to the wrong person.

Kris Jenner

#46. When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

Damon Lindelof

#47. Nothing lasts forever. That is the only truth we are guaranteed in life. When someone says they will love you forever, what does that really mean? Then again, what really is love? I think that's why we're here. For each of us to discover what love means to us.

Jewel E. Ann

#48. I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

Karl Rove

#49. If someone says you can't achieve, just throw out that 'T and now You can achieve.

Saravanan

#50. If ever again, someone says to go to the market, where hearts are sold in exchange for melancholy souls, never would I go.

Never would I wait, if ever again someone says - not to.

Khadija Rupa

#51. I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.

Bernie Glassman

#52. We're back up and commencing burn in thirty seconds unless someone says otherwise. Everybody get ready to weigh something.

James S.A. Corey

#53. Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

Emilio Estevez

#54. My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'

Jim Rohn

#55. The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

Carl Sagan

#56. Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.'

Andy Borowitz

#57. I'd have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place.

Helen Oyeyemi

#58. I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a former organ harvester describe a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.

Carly Fiorina

#59. When someone says something petty or nasty, one of those little passive-aggressive things that would usually just pick at me for days, my new response is not to shut the door and bitch to anyone who will listen. Now? The moment they say it? "What did you mean by that?" I ask in a calm voice. It

Shonda Rhimes

#60. If someone says, "the Gnani Purush is happy in the 'Real' but happy or unhappy in the 'relative'", then I would say, "No, the Gnani Purush Knows the 'relative' as being the 'relative', and therefore He is happy in the relative as well.

Dada Bhagwan

#61. Logic was my favorite class in school. I like it because it's a way to see HOW what someone says is nonsense.

Donna Leon

#62. If someone says it's art, it's art.

Donald Judd

#63. You see, when someone says "it's impossible,' I have this very bad habit, I can't help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break.

Douglas Preston

#64. How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

Russell Brand

#65. The moment someone says, 'Hey, everyone, listen to the words in this song,' your party is over.

Amy Sedaris

#66. I was on a panel with Marshall McLuhan in Canada. Someone says, 'Mr. McLuhan, I read your book, and I disagree with you.' And he says, 'Oh, you read my book? Then you only know half the story.'

James Rosenquist

#67. Whenever someone says, 'You've changed my life,' you can't replace that.

Tempestt Bledsoe

#68. 20 If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister,* that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 21 And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters.*

Anonymous

#69. I never engage negatively with reviewers. If someone says something that enrages me, I do what I do on stage. I make a joke about myself and move on. Sometimes people say things that are manifestly wrong or even apparently malicious. That's fine, too. It's a response.

Nick Harkaway

#70. In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Russell Brand

#71. To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#72. If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

Murray Gell-Mann

#73. I mean when someone says I forbid it, that's a good sign it's worth doing.

Rick Riordan

#74. When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.

Brunello Cucinelli

#75. Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.

Gary Numan

#76. Happiness is.. when someone says I am happy for you.

Vikrmn

#77. What someone says and what happened are usually two different things.

Markus Zusak

#78. It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

Kate Winslet

#79. If someone says they shouldn't have to follow regulations because they're making food in their home, I'd say, 'Why is your home so safe that it doesn't need that level of oversight and control?'

Robert Sutton Harrington

#80. 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

#81. Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.

Dennis Lehane

#82. At the end of the day it's going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I've learned to take a step back and ask myself if it's really going to affect me, if this person who I'm never going to know or meet doesn't like me - and it doesn't.

Lauren Conrad

#83. When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Alan Perlis

#84. Make sure you know the Bible well enough to figure out if what someone says is fact or their own opinions. If you don't it could lead you in the wrong direction.

Amanda Penland

#85. You're pulling out and someone says, 'hey, you know what, go ahead and take my spot', miracle.

DeVon Franklin

#86. Whenever someone says they believe the earth was created in 7 days, I grab a fossil and say, Fossil. And if they keep talking, I throw it just over their heads.

Lewis Black

#87. The next time someone says, "Hey, you fight like a
girl!" your response is going to be, "You bet I do!

Kym Rock

#88. Whenever someone says something that's both realistic and abhorrent, It makes me suspect everyone else is lying about everything else.

Chuck Klosterman

#89. The way to stop political correctness is to not do it. If someone says, You offended me then you say I don't care! If they're offended by the truth, that's their issue!

Brad Stine

#90. We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.'

Trey Parker

#91. I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

Baz Luhrmann

#92. We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, every bit of money - someone says Stanley Ho, you issue me a check of so much money - we don't give that easy.

Stanley Ho

#93. As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'

Rachel Bloom

#94. We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#95. People love their fathers. Their sisters. People love dogs or songs or poems. If I've got to be the champion of something, make it something that doesn't change what it means every time someone says it.

Daniel Abraham

#96. I have so many strong opinions on the entertainment industry, but if I'm in a deli somewhere, and someone says they love that Adam Sandler movie where he dresses up as his twin sister - well, I don't want to make people feel bad for how they feel about things. I'm always courteous, not mean.

Andy Kindler

#97. The only thing that bothers me is if I'm in a restaurant and I'm eating and someone says, 'Hey, mind if I smoke?' I always say, 'No. Mind if I fart?

Steve Martin

#98. The next time someone says, 'The odds are against you,' remember: If you don't try, you forfeit the opportunity.

Frank Sonnenberg

#99. Anytime someone says we're channelling 1960s, I'm like, I'm in, I love it.

Lindsay Ellingson

#100. If you do not like what someone says, stand up and challenge them by saying what you feel. Be the change that you want to see in the world around you.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore