Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

— Kevin Hart

To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.

— Abraham H. Maslow

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

— Brendan Behan

If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.

— Jim Otto

Before you open your mouth to say something, take a step back and imagine what you're going to say was said to you.It makes you think twice, doesn't it?

— Anthony T. Hincks

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

— Joe Bob Briggs

I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'.

— Carroll Shelby

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

— Plato

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

— Virgil Thomson

I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing like them, I would give up poetry and writing.

— Rupi Kaur