#said

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#could #death #i #me #said

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#james #james joyce #joyce #judge #left

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#characters #day #expect #free #get

I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?' ↗

— James Belushi

#character #comedy #dad #did #funny

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#agreed #being #did #dispensable #endless

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#dead #economist #john #long #long run

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before. ↗

— William Bernbach

#been #before #confuse #consumer #forget

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' ↗

— Joe Biden

#crashed #franklin #franklin roosevelt #got #greed

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#i #never #said #were

She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#dinner #get #going #her #i