#they say

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#free speech #our #penalty #period #poems

Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: 'You scored 346 goals' or 'You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.' ↗

— Ian Rush

#everything #go #goals #google #kids

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#being #eat #eaten #enough #escaped

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do. ↗

— George Sutherland

#average #average person #i #living #make

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#good #governments #lie #look #nothing

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died. ↗

— Luther Vandross

#fat #i #larger #lost #now

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it? ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#revolutionary #say #they say #wrong

If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose. ↗

— Terry Brennan

#lose #old #outmoded #say #they say

People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy. ↗

— Hannibal Buress

#chris rock #compare #eddie #eddie murphy #even