Home / Topics / Said Quotes

Said Quotes

Browse 25485 quotes about Said.

Said Quotes

“All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.”

Men Writing Long Said Stories Courses Found Sleep Clear Missing Changed Drug Details One Man Links Drs Cabinets Jekyll

Book:The complete short stories

Source: The complete short stories

“They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'”

Men Said Play Changed He Man Blue Guitar They Said

Author:Wallace Stevens

“You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.”

People Knows Said Different Games Changed Strings

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“A few years ago, a friend said to me: "You do realize, Ian, when X-Men and Lord of the Rings come out, your life will totally change?" I didn't know what he was talking about, but he was right. My life has totally changed - but in a good way. Unbeknownst to me, it's given me a lot more confidence.”

Knows Men Way Years Said Given Realizing Talking Lord Changed Years Ago Rings Good Way X Men

Author:Ian Mckellen

“He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.”

Men Made Said Stills Lasts Choices Changed Shoes Reverse

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed.”

People Ifs Want Persons Said Wanted Past Dies Interesting Mystery Changed Ego Our Past Your Past Emperor Hang Ups Changed Person

Book:Your Brain Is God

Source: Your Brain Is God

“Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!”

Ifs Knows World Should Doe Has Beens Said Stills Two Stories Light Mother Night Hate Father Names Voice This World Changed Son Honor Equal Daughter Devil Celebrate Mourning What If Funk

Author:Bootsy Collins

“I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters. In between two of the segments she asked me: "But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?" I said, "Type faster." This was widely quoted, but the "six months" was changed to "six minutes," which bothered me. It's "six months."”

Ifs Said Two Minutes Changed Type Months Six Doctors Faster Six Months Bothered Barbara

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop He said, "Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.”

Thinking Men Needs Heart Said Found Changed Gun Rivers East Fishing Hunters Bounty Stallions You've Changed Bounty Hunter

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.”

Said Dies Subjects Changed Eternal Remains Accidents Substance Composition Dissolution

Author:Giordano Bruno

“We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.”

Kind Said Changed Technological Monkeys Components Reefs Coral Reefs

Author:Terence McKenna

“It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.”

“Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.”

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953

“I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and said, "Write out how you'd like your career to go," I would have probably short changed myself compared to what it's been for real. I'm just extremely excited about what I've accomplished.”

People Ifs Writing Said Real Careers Pieces Changed Like You Paper Excited Teenager Accomplished Pens

Author:Ice Cube

“When I was working on Big Fan, I didnt really feel like any lines needed to be changed or enhanced or expanded upon in any way. I thought it was a solid script. All you had to do was what it said.”

Way Feels Said Bigs Lines Fans Changed Needed Scripts

Author:Kevin Corrigan