I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.
I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.
Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.
It has been said that work is the highest form of play.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.
It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.
I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.
A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.
I've said all that I've had to say.
It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.
I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!
I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.
My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.
He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.
Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith
There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out.
Only what is essential must be said.
As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.
I just said to myself, She's just like you, you know, she can be nervous
When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing.
It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.
People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.
This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.
I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
What was said before is not important.
We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush
I want her back" I said "I want HIM back"~Charlie
Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
Find x if (x)=2sin3x,over the domain -2piX=Beth 'Stop goofing around!',I said. 'I'm not! I'm stating the truth.You're my solution to everything',Xavier replied. 'The end result is always you.X always equals Beth.
Actually Gabriel’s an archangel,” I corrected. “But otherwise, yes.” “Well, that explains why he’s so hard to impress,” said Xavier flippantly
Door’s locked,” he said. “And we have unfinished business.
The subject’s pulse increased on contact,” he said. “Don’t write that.
I cared about us. But the cold hard truth was, nothing I said or did could realign the stars.
It isn't about love," Vee said. "It's about fun.
class was like watered down porn today. Vee said
There´s my date, I said. "Fashionably late." Nora (p. 232)
Citizen's arrest," he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me to.
You should shower," I said. "Right now." "I smell that bad?" (Patch) Actually, he smelled that good.
I called Vee. "How are you doing?" I asked. "Good. How are you?" "Good." Silence. "Okay," Vee said in a rush, "I am still totally freaked out. You?" "Totally.
You’re impinging on my private space,” I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn’t the SAT, Nora.
Don't make me regret this", I said breathless. "You haven't regretted me once.
I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
God was havin' himself a good day when he made boobs. He must've stepped back from Eve and said, Yes ma'am! Those'll work.
That was other thing i hated about kids; they always said th exact things that deep dpwn you already knew, would never admit, and most certainly never wanted to hear.
I looked at my two wolves. When I knelt they came to me rubbed against me smelling me and I stroked them. "Thank you for believing in me " I said and maybe they understood and maybe they didn't.
Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
Living isn't a simple thing...no one said it's supposed to be.
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.
It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.
I am a fox", the fox said.
The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.
Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,.
Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me these books of yours.
I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings.
I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.
There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.
"I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.
Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
And that, said John, is that.
If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.
I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.
As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.
Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.
Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
I always wanted to be on Glee. As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.
Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."
There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.
I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only….Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,
It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.
When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.
So the quesiton is," Bex said slowly,"How far are you willing to go?" I looked at my three best friends in the world. "How far is there?
You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.
And so that means..." "We have to rob the Henley," Simon said. Kat sank onto a truly uncomfortable sofa. "Again.
and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi
Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing
I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)
i drink caffeine" she said calmly "lot's of it gives you pep
I went through what I went through because God said go through it