Top 100 Who Said Quotes
#1. The reasons are likely rooted in religion. Playing around with God's creation is simply not allowed. Incidentally, in the past it was precisely the deeply religious people who said: Of course we're playing with God's creation, in fact we're perfecting it. This sort of thinking is frowned upon today.
Hans Von Storch
#2. I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
Ian McEwan
#3. You are blinded and you serve the God of the Jews, who is not the God of love but the God of hatred. Why don't you listen to Christ Himself, who said to the Jews: Ye are of your father the devil!
Julius Streicher
#4. Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"
Richard P. Feynman
#5. I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
Zooey Deschanel
#6. Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense
Buda
#7. Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.
Kevin Brockmeier
#8. Do not let the writer's authority or learning influence you, be it little or great, but let the love of pure truth attract you to read. Do not ask, 'Who said this?' but pay attention to what is said.
Thomas A Kempis
#9. Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!
Erma Bombeck
#10. It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?
Samantha Bond
#12. The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have ... ," I wouldn't be here today.
Debbi Fields
#13. But always remember, I am watching your every move and will be with all of you until the end of all things. Do not let your heart be troubled with the turmoil of the future. Be sure of one thing: the future is already written in the hidden stones of the hearts of those who said 'yes.
J.D. Netto
#14. It was Plato who said: "The movement of sounds so as to reach the soul for the education of it in virtue we know not how, we call music
Zoe Kendrick Pyne
#15. I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#16. Clearly not all these people who said that God spoke to them heard the same thing. All the fighting nations said God was on their side. How could God be on everyone's side?
Jeanne DuPrau
#17. Malcolm Muggeridge who said that the only real Englishmen left in the world were to be found in India.
Ruskin Bond
#18. It was Voltaire who said that 'in a government, you need both shepherds and butchers.' The problem in France was that the butchers kept killing the shepherds, while the sheep turned cannibal.
Stephen Clarke
#19. In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure, and the man said, "When I pray to him, he ignores me."
Lowell Thomas
#20. It was William Penn who said, "Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." Brent knew that there was nothing right about this place and the way the prisoners were treated, and he was determined to do whatever he could to change that.
Kenneth Eade
#21. But it was Azriel who said, his voice like cold death, "Be careful how you speak about my High Lady." Surprise
Sarah J. Maas
#22. Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those.
Spencer Abraham
#23. We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.
Alex Lifeson
#24. Safe?" said Mr. Beaver
"Who said anything about safe?'
"Course he isn't safe'
"But he's good
'He's the king, I tell you.
C.S. Lewis
#25. If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert's Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.
Dave Barry
#26. Wasnt it Startre who said hell was eternity spent in a room with your friends?
L.J.Smith
#27. Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#28. A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take ... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.
Otto Rehhagel
#29. The Invisible Man, who said to his wife, I don't care if it looks silly, don't stop! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#30. I have very supportive parents who said, 'Go and do what you want to do. Home is always here for you, and if you don't like it out there, come back. You can always do something different.' So when you have an option like that, you are able to choose roles or choose the things you want to be in.
Michelle Yeoh
#31. I can't remember who said it, but there's a great saying that goes, Dumb should hurt.
Corey Taylor
#32. Her voice trembled. "I'm so glad you're mine. I won't ever let you go."
This time, it was Kaleb who said, "I know," devastated at being so wanted. "You are just a little possessive.
Nalini Singh
#34. It was human who said BLACK is SAD. I don't believe. You know why. Because I am BLACK but am HAPPY.
Ahamed Nafaz Raja.S.N
#35. I never try to defend religion. Religion has spawned wars. Many so-called religious people have been characterized by prejudice, pride, and bickering ... I would call you to a simple faith in Jesus, who said, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Billy Graham
#36. I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.
Joyce Banda
#37. When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
Winston S. Churchill
#38. A hermit said, "Do not judge an adulterer if you are chaste or you will break the law of God just as much as he does. For he who said 'Do not commit adultery' also said 'Do not judge.
Rowan Williams
#39. But to paraphrase the ever-paraphraseable Freud, who said something to the effect that when you speak about the past you lie with every breath you take, I will say this: When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.
Rabih Alameddine
#40. I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged!
L.M. Montgomery
#41. You can't serve on every committee. But you can know what happened, what the debate was, who said what.
Kevin McCarthy
#42. Obama was heckled by someone who said, 'Don't forget about medical marijuana.' The Secret Service has narrowed the suspects down to everyone in L.A.
Conan O'Brien
#43. In this season of thanksgiving, I'm equally grateful to the people who said NO. I didn't see it then, I see it now. Thank you!
Assegid Habtewold
#44. The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
The guy who said that was a wise man. He knew what most men don't - Women are powerful creatures who should be handled with care, or they can become very, very dangerous.
Christina Dodd
#45. There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.
Bruce Jenner
#46. I don't know who said it, but it really kind of hit me hard in the stomach: "The only difference between all of us is that some of us were loved and some of us weren't."
Kristen Stewart
#47. It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.
Mark Kac
#48. Who said anything about justice? There's no such thing. But injustice is as much a part of life as the weather.
Humphrey Cobb
#49. I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.
Ian Frazier
#50. Amelia Earhart, who said, Stop looking for me; see if you can find my luggage! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#51. The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"
Erma Bombeck
#52. Whenever I spoke with anybody who said they did not have a problem in the military it was because their commander treated them well. Every single time it was about the commander as to whether they had a good or bad experience.
Amy Ziering
#53. I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.
Rodney Dangerfield
#54. The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
Stuart Wilde
#55. I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.
Pete Seeger
#56. I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives.
Kathryn Harrison
#58. I am grateful for all those people who said no. It is because of them that I did it myself. Practice an attitude of gratitude. You can either be miserable dwelling on the troubles you have or grateful for the ones you don't have. Your troubles don't care but it makes a huge difference in your life.
Michael Josephson
#59. Who said "ladies" don't use words like "fuck" and "cunt," or that one doesn't use them around "ladies"? Maybe not when you're having lunch with a lady, but when a lady's fucking, she's not having lunch.
Nancy Friday
#60. I met some fans who said, 'Please start Twittering!' They even walked me through it, but I'm terrible at it. I'm so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I'm not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.
Jim Parrack
#61. There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away
Cassandra Clare
#63. It was probably Chekhov who said that the novelist is not someone who answers questions but someone who asks them.
Haruki Murakami
#64. Look your best - who said love is blind?
Mae West
#65. Ben Hur, who said to his sister Ben Him, We'd better swap names before they start calling me Ben Gay! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#66. Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
J. Arthur Thomson
#67. I'm always excited and enthusiastic to have women join the technical side of the industry. Without making ridiculous stereotypes, which this might be, I have had clients - male and female - who said they feel more comfortable working with a woman in the mastering capacity for various reasons.
Emily Lazar
#68. George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#69. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.
Muhammad Ali
#70. I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.
Angelina Jolie
#71. I think it may have been Tom Wolfe (if it wasn't, my apologies, Tom, and my apologies to whoever it was) who said in print once, 'David Carradine lives the life that Hunter Thompson only writes about.'
David Carradine
#72. You may say you're "anti-status," but if you filled a room with people who said that, they would soon form a status hierarchy based on how anti-status each person claims to be.
Loretta Graziano Breuning
#73. Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#74. Borges, who said, Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve.
Paul Theroux
#75. I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment.
Peter Hook
#76. I have listened to young Indians who said, "Christianity taught me to believe in the possibility of a different world; Marxism showed me how to get it." It does not take more than a generation to discover that Marxism necessarily betrays the hopes by which it lives.
Lesslie Newbigin
#77. The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.
Colin Mochrie
#78. Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#79. Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell really cares.
One Tree Hill Haley James Scott
#80. She didn't want to be one of those girls who said the exact opposite of what she meant, but still - it would have been nice to see Easy try.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#81. I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.
Laurence Yep
#82. That's the first time you picked me over food since you've been pregnant." She raised her brows. "Who said I was picking you over food. I'm picking you and the food. There's a difference.
Milly Taiden
#83. You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, 'He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron)
Confucius? (Talon)
No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I'm told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#84. Who said that the thrill of the chase should only be felt by the hunter?
H.A. Kotys
#85. John Travolta, who said, My Saturday night fever was nothing compared to my Sunday morning rash. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#86. There is no such thing as too much lace on your underwear," Zurra explained. "Do you know who said that? George Washington.
Aaron Lee Yeager
#87. Holden had once dated a Buddhist who said that death was merely a different state of being, and people only feared the unknown that lay behind that transition. Death without warning was preferable, as it removed all fear.
He felt he now had the counterargument.
James S.A. Corey
#88. I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.
It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.
David Levithan
#90. When Google went into China, there were some people who said they shouldn't compromise at all - that it is very bad for human rights to do so. But there were other people, particularly Chinese people, who said they were glad Google had gone in.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#91. I've always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, 'What are the chances of you staining my pans?' I said, 'I don't think I understand the question ... ' and she said, 'When you cook your curries.'
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#92. This benign property of his prose is not, one hopes, to be attributed to the reason noticed by the eccentric du Garbandier, who said 'the beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the happy conviction that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest'.
Flann O'Brien
#93. They couldn't hurt Gansey. Nothing could hurt him; people who said money couldn't buy everything hadn't seen anyone as rich as the Aglionby boys. They were untouchable, immune to life's troubles. Only death couldn't be swiped away by a credit card.
Maggie Stiefvater
#94. Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.
Susanna White
#95. I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you come to new places and live new lives.
Joy Cowley
#96. It was Martin Luther King who said, 'In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.' That is why I felt I could not be silent today.
Ed West
#97. Joseph Cotten, who said, You know how I got my name? Sammy Davis picked it for me. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#98. No intelligent man has ever lost a fight to someone who said 'I'm gonna kick your ass'.
Rory Miller
#99. I wouldn't pick a judge who said that the Pledge of Allegiance couldn't be said in a school because it had the words 'under God' in it. I think that's an example of a judge allowing personal opinion to enter into the decision-making process, as opposed to strict interpretation of the Constitution.
George W. Bush
#100. Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!
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