Say Quotes

If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

It is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

When a woman says, ‘I don’t wish to mention any names’, it means it ain’t necessary to mention any names.

To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.

I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

A scientist’s life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown.

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.