They Say That Quotes

#1. They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.

Emily Dickinson

#2. They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate.

Monique Wittig

#3. Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence in Indochina and was reluctant to increase it.

Robert Dallek

#5. There is no hell. The Witnesses believe hell is a mistranslation of Gehenna, which was an ancient garbage dump. They say that nonbelievers simply die at Armageddon, rather than being thrown into an inferno. "How can you have a kind and loving God who also roasts people?" he asks. I

A. J. Jacobs

#6. I'll tell you what they say. That I'm fair and honest. And I'll tell you what I say to people who aren't. And it's this. You lost out. Because no one fucks with me, my company, or my family.

Lauren Blakely

#7. You know how they say that if you think you might be going crazy, it's proof that you're not? Well, it's a lie. One of many they tell you about mental illness.

Forrest Carr

#8. They say that a near death experience makes a person see a flash of their past, but that hasn't happened to me at all.

Anthony Otero

#9. But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are 'they?'"
"I don't know. Just people."
"That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?

John Connolly

#10. They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson

#11. As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming.

Al Gore

#12. People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.

Viggo Mortensen

#13. It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.

Mark Pellegrino

#14. They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. They say that if you're good at something, never do it for free. But who would pay me to make bad jokes?

Caleb Eversole

#16. They say that love is finding your soul's match in another. I found my match. I found him,
let him wrestle me to the ground, and then turned around and made him mine. I'm so glad
that I didn't scare him off, I'm so glad that he didn't stop chasing.

Alessandra Torre

#17. They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

#18. Women. Who made 'em? God must have been a genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever?

Bo Goldman

#19. Yes, they are elves," Legolas said. "and they say that you breathe so loud they could shoot you in the dark." Sam hastily covered his mouth.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. They say that history is going on somewhere.
They say it won't stop. I have held
One picture still for a long time and waited.

William Stafford

#21. They say that women's sexual peaks are in their 30s or 40s, and I think that it happens because they're more comfortable. It's not some hormonal change that happens at that age. Of course, it would be nice to have more physiological insight on that.

Mary Roach

#22. They say that women like a man who can make them laugh, and I find that if you can make a woman laugh on the first and second dates, then you're doing well.

Matthew Perry

#23. They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.

Stefanie Powers

#24. They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

Philip Plait

#25. I know they say that a stiff dick has no conscience, but I tell you now that some cunts have teeth ...

Stephen King

#26. They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Moore

#27. The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

C.S. Lewis

#28. What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

Sitting Bull

#29. They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

Charles Ghigna

#30. They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

Jo Nesbo

#31. Miss Lucy's called the bell o' St. Ogg's, they say: that's a cur'ous word,' observed Mr. Pullet, on whom the mysteries of etymology sometimes fell with an oppressive weight.

George Eliot

#32. They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make it beautiful.

Holly Smale

#33. I always remember your own grandmother, she continued, nodding her head, old Mrs. Taylor. She died on a Christmas Night.
Oh, I said shivering. I wouldn't like to die on a Christmas Night.
A good night to die, she smiled; they say that the gates of heaven are open on Christmas Night.

Alice Taylor

#34. In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

Adam Levine

#35. What then was this hope, if you know?' Finrod asked.
'They say,' answered Andreth: 'they say that the One will himself enter into Arda, and heal Men and all the Marring from the beginning to the end.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#36. I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

Richard Dawkins

#37. Suddenly he goes into the last phase - the human virus bomb explodes. Military biohazard specialists have ways of describing this occurrence. They say that the victim has "crashed and bled out." Or more politely they say that the victim has "gone down.

Richard Preston

#38. They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

Mark Twain

#39. They say that love conquers all. They're wrong, Keller thinks. Hate conquers all. It even conquers hate.

Don Winslow

#40. They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Mark Lawrence

#41. When they say that, 'God takes avatar (reincarnates)' is incorrect. He is known as an avatari when last two or three incarnations (before Moksha) remain. God does not have the ability at all to do karma! Man does not have that ability either. It is due to illusion that he feels 'I did it'!

Dada Bhagwan

#42. I know they say that's the way the cookie crumbles and all. But you can't help but wonder why there's any cookie-crumbling going on in the first place.

Andrea Portes

#43. They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#44. They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on distant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for that matter as to whether I ever get my point across or my love

Saul Williams

#45. They say that each word in the Quran has seven thousand layers of meaning, each of which, though some might seem contrary or simply unfathomable to us, exist equally at all times without cosmological contradiction.

G. Willow Wilson

#46. They say that even of a good thing you can have too much. But I doubt it. True, such good things as sunbathing, beer, and tobacco may be intemperately pursued to the detriment of their devotees; yet, to my mind, one cannot have too much of a good murder.

William Roughead

#47. I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

Hayden Christensen

#48. They say that when you remember something, you are really remembering the last time you remembered it. Each time you recollect a memory, you change it, ever so slightly, shading it with new information, new feelings.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#49. In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.

Nemanja Vidic

#50. They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.

Joyce Kilmer

#51. They say that rape is the only crime in which the victim has to prove her innocence. And I want you to know, I believe in your innocence. You don't have to prove anything to me.

Alina Klein

#52. He had scorned her, and didn't they say that hell hath no fury
? A scorned woman might well traffic with the devil ... or his henchman.

Stephen King

#53. Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex.

Mary McCarthy

#54. If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send ... and you must live.

Park Gye-Ok

#55. They say that time heals all wounds. I've never believed that. Time may dampen the severity of a wound, but no true wound is ever completely healed. A scar lasts forever no matter how much Mederma you lather on it. The memory of a tattoo will be there long after you've had it burnt off.

Jamie Schoffman

#56. I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.

Eric Wilson

#57. They say that God is in the details. Then again, they also say that the Devil is in the details. Boy, talk about awkward ...

Dana Gould

#58. They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

Joshua Sylvester

#59. They say that true love hurts, well this could almost kill me young love murder, that is what this must be I would give it all to not be sleeping alone

Kesha

#60. Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup's point of view. This must have been this way, and that was that way, they say. That's why you have to be careful with children - some day they grow up.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#61. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I dont dream at all.

Cormac McCarthy

#62. Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.

Henry Ford

#63. They say that if you hug a person for at least twenty seconds you both release the calming and friendship-making hormone oxytocin.

Christine DeSmet

#64. They say that in space no-one can hear you scream. The truth is even more disturbing. In space, no-one can tell that you aren't American.

Andrew Knighton

#65. They say that when you're really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love object is in stark relief from the surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.

Daniel Handler

#66. How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love s illusion. And yet
on the other hand
what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt ...

David Guterson

#67. They say that your second trimester is when you get most of your energy and it's the 'easiest' part of the pregnancy.

Malin Akerman

#68. When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment.

Laurel Clark

#69. They say that cigarettes will kill you, eventually. Fine. That's just fine. I only wish they'd do it faster.

Neil Gaiman

#70. They say that everything happens for a reason. Maybe one day, I will know what that reason is. Until then, I would live everyday correcting my wrongs.

Jessica N. Watkins

#71. They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

Jack Cade

#72. They say that what you mock Will surely overtake you And you become a monster So the monster will not break you

Blake Crouch

#73. They say that once you've drank from the waters of the
great Zambezi, you'll always have Africa with you. Maybe
that is why Africa feels like home.

Skeeter Wesinger

#74. There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we're all crossing the bridge of dreams together. That there's nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams.

M T Anderson

#75. They say that the hearts of the dead are never silent. They say that they
live on, beat on, love on forever. But what of the hearts of the living?

Rachel M. Martens

#76. Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

Homer

#77. They say that God watches out for children, drunks and fools. Simply put, this means I stand a two-thirds better chance for divine intervention in my life than most other people.

Lenny Castellaneta

#78. They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.

Salena Godden

#79. They say that a person should visit Paris three times in their life - once when they are young, once when they have the money to truly enjoy it, and once when they are in love.

Brenna Aubrey

#80. And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

Stephen King

#81. You know how alchoholics who go to AA are always using that phrase "one day at a time"? They say that because to say "I will never drink again" is just too damn much. It's big an hard and bound to fail.

Cheryl Strayed

#82. You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when they don't do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it - for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.

Vincent Tan

#83. They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

Terry Pratchett

#84. They say that there are a prodigious number of birds hereabouts this year, so that perhaps I may kill a few.

Jane Austen

#85. They say that eclipses are portents of disaster, because disasters are so common, and misfortune occurs often enough for these forecasts to be right, whereas if they said that eclipses were portents of good fortune they would often be wrong.

Blaise Pascal

#86. They say that one chooses one's friends, but one's relations are thrust upon one.

Victoria Holt

#87. They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she'd never spoken a word.

Alethea Kontis

#88. They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

Lawrence Durrell

#89. They say that "Time assuages" -
Time never did assuage -
An actual suffering strengthens
As Sinews do, with age -
Time is a Test of Trouble -
But not a Remedy -
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no Malady

Emily Dickinson

#90. According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.

Robert De Niro

#91. You can be innocent again. It's not true, what they say, that you can never get it back. You can. It's only that most folk cannot be bothered.

Catherynne M Valente

#92. They say that moving is one of the most stressful things in life. Death in the family is the second most stressful, and moving your dead spouse is the third.

Kevin Nealon

#93. They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane.

Jay Leno

#94. 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

#95. They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

Charlie Hunnam

#96. They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns.

John Hodge

#97. They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.

Rupert Brooke

#98. They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our recollection of the terror that surrounds it is perfect.

Claire North

#99. They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

Christian Lacroix

#100. They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.

Mos Def