After all is said and done, more is said than done.
It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.
I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.
Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the co-author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bill, has said the failure of that bill was a function of the lack of an ID card system.
The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.
I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.
It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and expiration date. An Amex phone representative said this is a feature, not a bug, which makes sure my bills are paid.
My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.
For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
