Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
Anna Quindlen

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.
Tracey Emin

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Joyce Carol Oates

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Peter Ustinov

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
Bo Bennett

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
Bo Bennett

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
Christian Bale

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.
Ernie Harwell

Without saying word to anybody, cover thy face.
Thomas North

Usually we are saying only part of the truth.
Erno Rubik

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
Damien Hirst

The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.
Penn Jillette

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.
Liza Minnelli

I keep saying the word "weird" over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.
Chuck Klosterman

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
H. Rap Brown

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

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
Bill Walton

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.
Marc Wallice