Said Quotes
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The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.
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The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Jack was balancing a spoon on his nose when I walked in. "You," I said knocking it off his face. "Me!" He answered cheerfully.
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I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.
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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."
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Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.
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It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
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I never root for a failure. I learned that when we were on 'Felicity.' There was a show that failed on the lot, and suddenly all of this food showed up on our set. I was, like, 'What is this?' And they said, 'Oh, they cancelled this other show right before their lunch.' And I said, 'Throw that food away! We don't want to touch that food! There's no way I'm eating it!' So I never root for anybody, because it could happen to you in two seconds.
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did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works
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I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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What are you doing here?" she asked. "You forgot something when you left Halstead Hall," he said hoarsely. "What?" Her heart lept into her throat as he strode purposefully toward her. "Me.
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Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.
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There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!
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One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."
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They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.
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I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.
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I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
