Said Quotes - Page 102

Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.

You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

Did I kill him?” I said. “No, miss,” said Robert. “Pity.

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

Blast Cecil!” said Eldric. “You have my permission,” I said.

You don’t mind when he stares at you.” Cecil jerked his head toward Eldric. "He doesn’t stare,” I said. “He looks.

The boy shall have a proper beating,' said Cecil. 'But I beat him already,' I said, 'and don't tell me I didn't do it properly. I'm touchy about these things.

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.

Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.