They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies… the medium doesn’t matter, so long as it inspires you.
When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.
When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens.
When I learned Japanese, they say that I sounded like a Chinese with diarrhea!
They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it’s upside down.
The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there’s people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you’re throwing your vote away.
A little too wise, they say, do ne’er live long.
They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.
Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
When you tell them you’re a writer, they say, ‘What have you written?’ And then you’ve got to tell them what you’ve done. I don’t ask a plumber what he does. Then I have to explain what I’ve done, and I haven’t really, you know. I’ve just told some stories.
We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express.
You know what they say? They say, ‘The print media is dying’ – who says that? Well, the media.
I can see that I give my audience something. I can see it in their eyes, and they say ‘Thank you’ a lot. You realize you are doing something that means something to people.
Keep your mouth shut and see what’s happening around you. Don’t finish people’s sentences for them. Don’t just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they’re saying it. That was great training for writing.
You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, ‘What do you do? What do you do for a job?’ and I say, ‘I make documentaries for the BBC,’ and you see their eyes just glaze over.
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don’t listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don’t listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I’m going to see… not, I’m going to hear.
The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel!
I just want that someone in their 50s or 60s, when they talk about Brian Lara, they say ‘I enjoyed watching that guy playing cricket.’
I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, ‘This is totally different.’ And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.
They say Montenegrins are intelligent, and maybe that’s why I was pretty good in school.
This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, ‘I know you. You’re that wee golfer, aren’t you?’ I say, ‘Yeah, that’s me.’ They say, ‘Keep it up, wee man.’ It’s very funny and that’s why I want to stay here as long as possible.
In every operation, there’s a risk, and you don’t know whether it’s gonna… you know, obviously there’s that 95% chance, whatever they say, they can never say 100% you’re gonna be better. But the concern and the worry is the worst thing.
They say don’t meet your heroes, but when it comes to Bowie, he truly is the most brilliant person I’ve ever met.
They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king’s friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.
When I go to a restaurant and they say, ‘We’re fully booked,’ I say, ‘It’s Roberto Cavalli,’ and they say, ‘I will check’. I love it!
Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.
I’ve been shocked for a long time in a lot of circumstances. I get shocked when they say, ‘Hey, we’re paying ya.’
In Hollywood, they say good news finds you.
You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they’re sorry? They do mean it, but… there’s nothing to say. There’s a void that cannot be filled.
They say I’m a revolutionary, but they’re all wrong.
Liverpool had African players from the ’50s and ’60s. There were goalkeepers in the early days from South Africa. Then in 1981 there was a guy who came to Anfield. They say ‘who is this guy’ and it is me; I am African.
I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.
On their deathbed, do people think: ‘I wish I’d spent more time with my Ferrari’? Or do they say: ‘I wish I’d spent more time watching my kids grow up, I wish I’d spent more time country walking?’ It’s about the things that matter in life, and how we have an economy that better reflects that.
I always think the most important thing for a writer is a deadline, and it’s the same with a house. They say you shouldn’t make an emotional decision with a house, but I think it is the only decision you can make.
They say I’m a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don’t know.
There’s a great feeling of powerlessness in America. When I express ideas to people, they say, ‘That’s terrific, but do you think it really counts?’
I have friends in prison. I send them money. I send them food. They say, ‘Bro, get me out of here.’ There’s nothing I can do. They’re five years in on a 20-year sentence. They went in at 16, they’ll get out at 36. That’s a lifetime.
I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say ‘If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.’ But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.
Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that’s just me – if they say I’m quirky, I’m quirky. It’s better than being boring.
Let’s call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, ‘Oh, she’s the androgynous one.’ I’ll tell you what type of character I would never be offered out there: The femme fatale. Or the white-trash, heterosexual hillbilly.
They say the good Lord doesn’t charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.
Nowadays, people don’t ask you how you are, they say, ‘Are you busy?’ meaning, ‘Are you well?’ If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust ‘Busy!’ to which the person will reply ‘Good!’
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
Whenever people are confronted by a prediction for the future that they simply cannot or will not believe, they always say, ‘It will never happen in my lifetime.’ If the prediction is something they deplore and fear, they say it with calculated bravado, often adding a smug, snorty hhrrummph.
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
You don’t remember people you love by the wise things they say but the silly things they do.
They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I’ve done that twice in my marriage but am still married.
Fashion is a vampiric thing; it’s the Hoover on your brain. That’s why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say, ‘Oh, can I kiss you?’ I say, ‘No, thank you very much.’
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.
Yes, Dan’l Webster’s dead – or, at least, they buried him. But every time there’s a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky.
They say that pace is the first thing to go, but my game was never based on pace. It was about strength and power and withstanding challenges and getting in the right position.
When people tell you they saw your last picture – well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.
I don’t know how many companies I’ve bought in my life, and most of them I’ve bought from children whose father has passed away, and they say, ‘Now we’re free, would you like to buy it?’
No one really cares about you but you. They say they do, but everyone in Hollywood is a heat-seeking missile, and it’s easy to go after the cute girl or guy that’s new to town.
