Said Quotes - Page 53

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'

John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.

You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.

Like I said...fine with me.

Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.

I didn't say the things I said.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.