All Quotes

To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
‐‐ Yancy Butler

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
‐‐ Teresa de Lauretis

To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.
‐‐ Jerrod Carmichael

To say more, is to say less.
‐‐ Harlan Ellison

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
‐‐ James Whistler

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
‐‐ Jean Rostand

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
‐‐ Algernon Charles Swinburne

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
‐‐ Nancy Friday

To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.
‐‐ Per Petterson

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.
‐‐ David Sedaris

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
‐‐ Max Beerbohm

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
‐‐ Thomas Reed

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
‐‐ Ken Burns

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
‐‐ Murray Kempton

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
‐‐ Bill Haslam

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
‐‐ Gerrit Smith

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.
‐‐ Matt Haig

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'
‐‐ Rebecca Solnit

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
‐‐ Judith Butler

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.
‐‐ Emily Procter

To say that I could manipulate one of the men who has shown the most courage before the Cuban government, who gets beaten every day, who did a hunger strike that freed political prisoners... I think that's absurd.
‐‐ Joe Garcia

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

To say that I'm going to veto something that I haven't read is just - or sign something that I haven't read - I don't think is good policy for any chief executive.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.
‐‐ James Dickey

To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
‐‐ Hamilton Jordan

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
‐‐ Rex Stout

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
‐‐ Alfred Russel Wallace

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.
‐‐ Scott Stossel

To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football.
‐‐ Thierry Henry

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.
‐‐ Harlan Stone

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
‐‐ Garrett Hardin

To say that we should engage in some hypothetical about, 'Will I vote for Trump,' that's defeatist. I'm not going to be a defeatist.
‐‐ Cory Gardner

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
‐‐ Pope Francis

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.
‐‐ Alison Owen

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
‐‐ James Whistler

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
‐‐ Phillips Brooks

To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.
‐‐ Sinead O'Connor

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.
‐‐ John McAfee