I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
People have said I belong in a rubber room because I look for wrecks, and when I find them, I just do a survey. I don't look for treasure or artifacts.
I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
You know, Rupert Murdoch I've said is like an Italian when it comes to negotiations.
The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.
'Daddy used to be a Georgian,' Stalin's son, Vasily, once said. Actually, the dictator didn't truly become Russian; he remained Georgian culturally. Yet he embraced the imperial mission of the Russian people.
When I first met Sam Mendes, I was a bit confused and said to him, 'I'm 50 years old. What am I going to do at 50 in a Bond film?'
I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
I had said no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him about his saucy language. It had never gotten to this level until I came back.
As I've said before, free money scams are a problem.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
I've said that we need to elect Democrats from the school board to the Senate.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.
I have said time and again that the republican order, and secularism, when executed perfectly, are blessings from God.
This is quite public knowledge. The South African government has said they're doing it. They've started seizing their first couple hundred farms.
When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
