They Said Quotes

They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

They may say, 'He's small. We really don't know if he can get the job done.' But they said that about me coming out of high school.

The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

I always wanted to be the strongest man on the field. Most of the time, they said I was lifting too much but I didn't believe in that at all.

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

They did is sent me down Clearwater, Florida, and they said to me, Jessica, I need you to make Jim Bakker feel better.

There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured, and, they said, too dark.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

I've always been criticized, right from the beginning! Right from the very first day I was born... They said I wasn't right for the part!

I was interviewed by the Moscow Times and they said how's it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your Teenage Survival Guide? I said slightly terrifying.

Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

I think it holds up pretty good because more and more women are coming to the forefront in all areas, and back then they said that nobody would care about women's friendship.

After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time; they said I’d never work again. So I’m going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn’t let me do.

They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren’t the person I hoped you were? That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

My personal style is over-the-top dowager. The old days they said get dressed and take one thing off, I say get dressed and put one thing on.

The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.

It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.

Don't hold me to anything in the book. I'm a waffler. I like wafflers. They said John Kerry was a waffler, but I admired him for that - showed he could change his mind.

Everybody gon' say something. I'd be worried if they said nothing.

A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.

Those lips looked tasty, especially when they said things like ' i jumped up every time someone knocked, hoping it's be you

I said, 'Well, how much space do I have?' And they said, 'Well, you know, it's the Internet.'

That's all they said was wrong with me?

They said Reagan was too dangerous. It was Reagan who ended the Soviet Union without firing a shot.

They said I was a valued customer. Now they send me hate mail.

I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."

Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. It's not right. Someone's gotta say it. They said it. I applaud them.

The people have spoken, but it will take a while to determine exactly what they said.

Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote.

Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said "we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything you want." Of course, you just ignore that.

They said the moment I fell in love with you was the moment you'd leave.

They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then) they said their nevers they slept their dream

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.