They Quotes

My eyes were closed, they're open now

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

They love me for what I'm not They hate me for what I am.

I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything.

I offered to pee on him, but they said no

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'

The stuff I find attractive in women I always regret finding attractive. I always like a kind of madness in a woman... I like it when they hate me right from the beginning.

They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.

Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her and I said, 'That’s not cool, that’s really mean.’

They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

When they said "Make love, not war" at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other.

There was a Young Person in pink, Who called out for something to drink; But they said, 'O my daughter, there's nothing but water!' Which vexed that Young Person in pink.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs!

I bought these shoes in Taiwan, and they said in the inside "made around the corner."

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

I went to a record store, they said they specialized in hard-to-find records. Nothing was alphabetized!

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.

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.'

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to, because the cheese kept floating off in space.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

I had my back waxed once by two women... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.

I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

They said do what you want, because if we don't like it no one will hear it.

When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

I think that probably in some areas the Labour message about some of the things that they said we were going to do - and which we weren't going to do - cut through.