It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you.
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.
They say every five years the atoms in your body become a new set of atoms.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‘first chapters’. I have indeed written many.
Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.
They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.
People used to say, ‘Andy Serkis lent his movements to Gollum,’ and now they say, ‘Andy Serkis played Caesar.’ That’s a significant leap.
I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that’s why I don’t read them. I think people are lying when they say they don’t care, that’s not true. I take them personally.
They say with age your reflexes slow down. I’ve not felt it.
They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I’m going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.
When you come to America, it’s a very serious thing. It’s not like you arrive and they say, ‘Hey, come on! Do movies!’ I can’t just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don’t, I could lose it like that.
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it’s cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
I don’t have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, ‘I can’t process it’ well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
I’m a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.
Every time I hear a Republican talking about health care reform, they say the American people don’t want it. They say it so much that I think they’re beginning to try to convince themselves that it’s true.
Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it’s real, and it cannot be denied.
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
What’s more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can’t hear what they say?
People have said that to me: They say I have a TV face.
They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you’re given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist – when you’re relevant. And I’m aware of that, and I don’t want my time to go by.
The fans at Quicken Loans Arena are pretty hostile. They say nasty things.
One would be lying if they say nepotism doesn’t exist.
I love acting because it’s a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man’s revenge.
They say miracles are past.
I’m gullible. I think people mean what they say.
Our planet is dying. Whales will be extinct before we ever get to know them. They say these creatures are so intelligent. They may disappear from the face of the Earth before we know them, and that is a great tragedy.
I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, ‘Now if you’ll sell it to me without the sales tax, I’ll buy it.’
The thing I get the most that I really love is that people don’t so much mention films I’ve been in or shows I’ve been in as they say, instead, ‘I love you. I just love your perseverance.’ That really pleases me.
As they say in the bible, that you’re supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they’re born, because it’s one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.
They say it can all change with one song, and in my case, that rings very true, I was shocked that it happened this quickly.
I’ve learned how to adapt to different cultures and understand all different walks of life. I’ve also learned that confidence is key, even if you have to fake it at times. Fake it till you make it, as they say.
There are certain families who absolutely incorporate their nanny as part of the family, and there are other people, and there are codes for this, when they call in, they say, ‘I am really not looking for a friend.’ It is clear they will not be members of the family.
Don’t name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
When people say what is ‘Gone With the Wind’ about, they say it’s a love story between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara. But Mammy is almost a third party.
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
I do get a lot of comments, messages and whenever people meet me, they say ‘I know you are working in the south but we miss you in Hindi.’
When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph. On the other hand, when they say the Internet is going to make us stupid, that also was said about the telegraph.
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, ‘Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I’ve earned slightly more wealth.’ I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.
As a singer, I’ve been criticized for sounding feminine. They say I don’t belong in any category, male or female, pop or jazz. But early on, I saw my suffering as my salvation.
Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, ‘Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we’re doing it.’
Both my daughters are both so unimpressed when they see me on television. I want them to say, ‘Oh, Dad!’ But I say, ‘Who’s that?’ and they say ‘Dad’ with no real interest, even if I’m wearing a long wig and riding on a horse! I think I’ll have to read a ‘CBeebies’ bedtime story instead.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
Do you know what they say about big hands? Big gloves!
Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don’t listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They’re games. They prepare you for nothing.
I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. It’s the same way with women… or at least the ones I want to be with.
They say stay in the lines, but there’s always something better on the other side.
When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there – even, or especially, claiming that they don’t want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it.
I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn’t realize they thought. And they say, ‘Hey, yeah!’ And they like that.
Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.
Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person’s back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.
You have to have something in your life that’s more important than the work. People don’t really like to admit that. They say, ‘Oh, my work is my most important thing.’
They say time heals all wounds, but sometimes you wonder.
I’m mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
Put me on solid ground and I’ll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.
