In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.
My Pa always said, Live fast, die laughing, thats the way to do it.
Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.
The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.
The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.
Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.
They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.
People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.
I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.
I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
I just wanted a change. My hair started hurting my back, so I went to my hairdresser and said 'Take it off.' And I'm delighted with the results.
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.
You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.
It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.
Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.
Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.
I hope I'm going to act for the rest of my life. What scares me is that if I get a big head, my mum said she would take me out of the business instantly - and if you knew my mum, she would do it!
It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.
I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.
I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.
Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism
Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
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.
I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.
If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."
She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.
It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.
My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.
My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.
As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.
They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.
As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.
I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.
For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.
The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.
When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.
I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.
I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.
Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl.
I have always said 'yes' to opportunities and experiences.
Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out
They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.
A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!
I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.
A lot of truth is said in jest.
I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.
Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so
Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined