Said Quotes

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.

But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral.

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

I finally said, I can't live being carried by this wake.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

Promise is most given when the least is said.

With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.