#they say

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#geniuses #great #mostly #mothers #sad

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#everyone #first #first thing #go #me

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side. ↗

— Adam Levine

#confused #emotionally #enables #honest #i

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#actually #between #dislocation #distance #good

I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#complaints #created #detainees #dismiss #fake

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. ↗

— John Mayer

#better #lines #other #say #side

I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#along #autism #doctor #doctors #god

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#get #graph #know #producers #public

We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.' ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#credit #did #god #good #great

They say you should never eat before you go to bed, but I've found just having a tiny little snack - like half an apple or something like that - before you go to sleep really helps. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#bed #before #eat #found #go