Said Quotes - Page 23

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

You don't have to explain something you never said.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'

An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.

The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.

Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.

The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.

I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has been accomplished.

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

But what was it Haymitch said when I asked if he had told Peeta the situation? That he had to pretend to be desperately in love? “Don’t have to. He’s already there.