Said Quotes

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

~ David Sedaris

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

~ Curt Weldon

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

~ Harvey Fierstein

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

~ Edmund Morgan

When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.

~ Cory Hardrict

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

~ Allen Klein

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

~ Plato

But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

~ Sally Schneider

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

~ Virgil Thomson

On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!

~ Cristin Milioti

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

~ Eminem

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

~ Rose Kennedy

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

~ Dennis Rodman

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

~ James A. Baldwin

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

~ Tom Brady

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

~ Paul Wolfowitz

I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it's all good.

~ Chris Hemsworth

Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.

~ Demi Lovato

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

~ Steve Cropper

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

~ Caleb Cushing

When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

~ Henry Rollins

I've said all along that God is in control.

~ Tony Dungy

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

~ André Gide

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

~ Jack Nicklaus

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

~ Maria Bamford

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

~ Lindsey Graham

It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members.

~ Joe Wurzelbacher

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

~ Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

~ Robert Mcchesney

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

~ Bille August

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

~ Jay London

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

~ Michael Kinsley

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

~ Ashley Montagu

A lot of truth is said in jest.

~ Eminem

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

~ Jane Goodall

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

~ Herman Melville

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

~ Mel Brooks