Said Quotes - Page 35

Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.

To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

I've always said your legacy is what you leave behind you.

Every day is a gift. That said, I've gotten some pretty shitty gifts over the years.

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.

I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

Least said, soonest mended

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am I. I am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation.

When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself.

Like Tom Dorrance said, ‘It boiled down to one thing: observe, remember, and compare.’ Do something, observe what you did, remember what you did, compare it to what you were doing before, and adjust.

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

God was havin' himself a good day when he made boobs. He must've stepped back from Eve and said, Yes ma'am! Those'll work.

Sometimes you have to hold tight to what God has already said because you can get so clouded over emotionally that you can no longer rely on what feels right or wrong.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.