They Said Quotes

They Said Quote of the day

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.

The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!

They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

They said you could not make it. Prove them wrong.

I'm human, you're human. So they said, but inside we're all animals.

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

I wish my nose was smaller and that I was a little taller. I also had this perennial pimple problem, so I felt people were just being polite when they said I was beautiful.

They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me

Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'

Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them.

The White House is now urging Americans not to 'read too much' into last week's jobs report. In fact, they said it would be best if you didn't read it at all.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol but today you need a machine gun to stop Messi.

They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do.

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga.

I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

I made a chocolate cake with white chocolate. Then I took it to a potluck. I stood in line for some cake. They said, "Do you want white cake or chocolate cake?" I said, "yes."

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

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

I offered to pee on him, but they said no

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.

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.

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.

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!'

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.