"If you weren’t pretty, it wouldn’t matter what you said or didn’t say. That’s why you’re getting this attention."
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"You don't have to explain something you never said."
"When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home.""
"Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world.""
"My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'"
"Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight."
"Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'"
"It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn."
"The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into."
"What did I tell you about Mister Safety Catch?' said Vimes weakly. When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend,' recited Detritus, saluting."
"Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said."
"We really didn't talk a whole lot about relationships. I believe I asked if he had ever been married, and he said no."
"Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it."
"That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess."
"What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?"
"To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last."
"You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents."
"Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."
"I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it."
"A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well."