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“Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.”

Said Today Nations England Goalkeepers Shopkeepers

Author:Tom Stoppard

“It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.”

Ifs Said Father One Thing

Author:Gilda Radner

“It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.”

Said

Author:Euripides

“I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.”

Thinking Should Said Impatience Holmes

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery”

Ifs Should Said Able Middle Terrible Rejection Remove Surgery Kidneys Antibodies

Author:Robert Montgomery

“John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.”

Ifs Giving Said Choices Easy Giving Up Witchcraft

Book:Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents

Source: Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents

“An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.”

Should Said President Mistake Gentleman Candidates

Book:The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government

Source: The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government

“The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.”

Said War Political Sides Healing Tears Philosophical Hunger Our Society Vietnam Threatened Memorial Disagreement

Author:Ronald Reagan

“He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that is. You see, Pop never used a tape measure. He didn't believe in it. He said he could just look at a man and tell his size, with the result that frequently he'd make a pair of pants with one trouser leg seven or eight inches longer than the other.”

Ifs Men Believe Looks Said Used Father Realizing Training Pops Statements Suits Tape Accurate Suits You

Author:Groucho Marx

“When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.”

Humans Said Sports Records News Celebrate Journalism Accomplishment Reports Sections Good News

Book:And so it goes

Source: And so it goes

“I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.”

Knows Said Degrees Curiosity Curious Certainty

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.”

Way Has Beens Said Bother Self Control

Book:Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945

Source: Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945

“As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it.”

Said Done Certain Clear Wife Crime Ought Bed Injury Suspicion Testimony Divorced

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.”

People Firsts Said Important Ideas Change Interesting Four Stage Development Waste Revolutionary My Time Nonsense Good Ideas Wasting My Time Don't Waste My Time

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.”

Said Use Jesus Communication Simplicity Follow Me Brevity Effective Communication

Author:Jim Rohn

“Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.”

Said Book Dies Reading Born Forever Influence Reading Books Dominion Books And Reading Born To Die

Author:William Styron

“I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.”

Giving Said Masters Lessons

Author:Howard Pyle

“The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.”

World Said Helping Stories Impossible Increase Absurd Instance Currency Scandal Pious Malicious Austin Improbability

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself

“The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.”

World Want Said Design Dissatisfaction

Author:Norman Mailer

“When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.”

Said Real Done Whole Literature Glasses Real Life Drunk Cynicism Drunkenness Barrels Said And Done

Author:Anton Chekhov

“A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.”

Ifs Looks Has Beens Said Book Memories Great Men Faculty Quotations

Author:Robertson Davies

“It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.”

Love Mean Art Said Real Hands Loss Real Love Disgusted

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.”

Wells Said Light Sea Sky Advice One Day Draws Appreciate Blue Blue Sky

Author:Claude Monet

“The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.”

Knows Said Matter Done Use Choices Know How Habit Colour Said And Done

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.”

Ifs Men Said I Can Interest One Thing Painting Pity

Author:Claude Monet

“I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.”

Said Study Masters Products Repeats Attributes Fascinated

Book:Monet

Source: Monet

“I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be to work every day... Your job is to write. The rest of it will take care of itself. But, generally, it seems ... you know how that is, you meet people and they have a talent for self-promotion. Those are the pushy people. And you know their writing's not going to be any good, because that's not their talent.”

People Knows Writing Said Self Seems Would Be Care Jobs Young Know How Advice Talent Mets Take Care Young Women Promotion Self Promotion Pushy

Author:David Sedaris

“All has not been said and never will be.”

Said Originality

Author:Samuel Beckett

“There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.”

World May Persons Said Character Kings Possession

Book:Character

Source: Character

“In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.”

Littles Said Evil Innocence

Book:The farthest shore

Source: The farthest shore

“I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.”

Ifs Should Believe Said Today Belief I Believe Yesterday

Author:Wendell Phillips

“I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.”

Doe Art Said Play Facts Hands Left Work Strange Fingers Reactions Thank God Dedication Hiking Bloody San Francisco Enslavement Left Hand Boulders Hurling

Author:Pablo Casals

“So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.”

Said Would Be Artist Phrases

Author:Philip Wylie

“Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.”

Said Ideas Law Alive Century Movement Perspective Chinese Rejected Viewers Vanishing Optics Vanishing Point

Author:David Hockney

“There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".”

Said Play Pieces Advice Talent College Dad Guitar My Dad One Piece

Author:John Denver

“Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.”

Said Use Internet Speech Function Contradiction Satire Free Speech Inherent Outrageous

Book:Going Too Far

Source: Going Too Far

“I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby.”

People Needs Said Different Past Standards Hobbies

Author:Jimmy Wales

“You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.”

Knows World Mind Mean Said Might Fall Hell Creative Areas Decided Profession Naked Creative Mind

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.”

Writing Said Blood Cold Hot Critics Spontaneity

Author:Billy Joel

“It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.”

Humans Wells Has Beens Said Human Beings Sin Animal Quality Five Elements Eating Determine Various Flesh Cruelty Tendencies Demonic Well Said Five Elements

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.”

People Said America Given Black Race Kings Checks Black People Luther

Author:Andrew Young

“Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.”

Said Mark Reports Exaggeration Exaggerated Demise

Author:Bill Bradley

“Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.”

People Ifs Littles Said Remember Burden Useless Plastic Surgeons Plastic Surgeons Batman Movie Useless Life

Author:Jack Nicholson

“We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.”

World Years Believe Said Christian Young Religion Values Religious Common Creatures Years Ago Perfection Islam Repeats Religious Values

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.”

Littles Said Walks Deception Spiders Spy Prettiest

Author:Mary Howitt

“I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.”

Thinking Littles Said Percent Patriotism Bottles Swedish Ketchup

Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

“Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Art Said Might Interesting Goes On Titles Works Of Art Something Interesting

Author:Damien Hirst

“As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!”

Thinking May Said Helping Money Please Eating Drinking Sat Pleasant Cafes Sneer Eating And Drinking

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.”

Said Criticism Drag Ruts

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.”

Giving Said Problem

Author:Lionel Blue

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