Said Quotes · Page 85

I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.

— Wallace Stevens

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

— Anatole Broyard

Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.

— Bobby Lee

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

— George Jean Nathan

whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.

— Rita Mae Brown

“When you maintain silence, you would have said to have understood the world.”

— Dada Bhagwan

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.

— Graham Greene

Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant.

— Rick Riordan

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said…

— Richard Dawkins

Every few weeks, I'd really be worn down. The doctor said just take time off, but it became apparent that the exercise…

— Tucker Halpern

Jesus has very clearly said in the gospel. "Whatever you do, do to the least of my brethren." Clear? That was the…

— Mother Teresa

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

— Robert B. Parker

As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.

— Joy Behar

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things…

— Elvis Costello

The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the…

— Rob Bell

Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is…

— John Muir

I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is...The biggest one in the whole Bible…

— Kenneth Copeland

Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is…

— Max Frisch

When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in…

— Harper Lee

Do you really like studying?" Mattia nodded. "Why?" "It's the only thing I know how to do," he said shortly. He wanted…

— Paolo Giordano

As DH Lawrence said, the Protestant societies do dirt on sex, it is their dirty mind which aligns sex and a woman's…

— Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best…

— Cassandra Clare

His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men…

— Nikki Giovanni

Groucho Marx, in his later days, gave me the best review I've ever had and probably will ever have. I changed a…

— Elliott Gould

Sometimes," said Will, "they're even supposed to blow up.

— Cassandra Clare

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

— Plato

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

— Bette Davis

Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.

— Diana Wynne Jones

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

— Benjamin Franklin

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

— Dionne Warwick

I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.

— Charles Bukowski

I said about Van Jones . Be careful. This guy is extraordinarily dangerous and he is smart.

— Glenn Beck

“If you’d wanted to get married with your feet on the ground, then you should have said something.”

— Julie Garwood

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.

— Timothy Keller

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

— Edward Abbey

I am sorry," Will said. "No," Jem said... "Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry.

— Cassandra Clare

Donald Trump said it was his idea for [Sarah] Palin to bring up her son at the rally.

— Chris Hayes

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

— Margaret Atwood

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

— Pierce Brosnan

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

— Simone de Beauvoir