#saying

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#makes #making #mean #most #really

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#colonialism #describe #i #legacy #moving

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#got #jokes #same #saying #tedious

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#amused #be happy #does #expected #genius

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that. ↗

— Garry Marshall

#giving #giving up #hand #hard #hard job

In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek. ↗

— James Marsters

#call #culture #enough #europe #frankly

I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person. ↗

— Diana Ross

#color #find #gay #hard #i

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#birds #either #else #ever #find

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#believe #bought #did #fits #horrors

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. ↗

— George McGovern

#bad #just #know #our time #polite