Said Quotes

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation.

It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.

I never said most of the things I said.

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

I was looking at the setlist backstage and I just said, 'Oh my God, the first six songs nobody's gonna know.' But they all knew the lyrics. It just blew me away.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Um, yeah 15-year-olds don't lead at an LPGA event all the time. But like I said, I'm very surprised. I've been playing really good golf and I'm confident with my game.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.

In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.