Said Quotes

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's election was different. Not only did the people speak, they spoke clearly.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

I'm tired of justifying what I've said.

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.

A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you've got a lot of inaccuracies out there.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.