Said Quotes - Page 13

You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole, I dislike my fellow beings; I find them so difficult to understand. But I have a tidy mind and untidy lives irritate me. Also, they are uncivilized.

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

Many people have said many things. I can only say I did not consciously go after dance. It found me.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

All the words are not enough to get anything said.

If somebody had come to me and said will you move heroin, I would have told them no.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

So that plan worked out well.' Skulduggery, your entire plan consisted of, and I quote, "Let's get up close and then see what happens."' All the same,' he said, 'I think the whole thing worked out rather beautifully.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!" "Can't we do anything about it?" "No!" "Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.

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.

Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.

The Yesees said yes to anything That anyone suggested. The Noees said no to everything Unless it was proven and tested. So the Yesees all died of much too much And the Noees all died of fright, But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees All came out all right.

All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.

All has not been said and never will be.

My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer.

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.