- Nov 07, 2020
They Say Quotes
Most Famous They Say Quotes of All Time!
Several quotes here use the phrase "they say" to introduce hard-won wisdom, whether it is filmmakers explaining why speed beats over-analysis or a comparison to samurai discipline that leaves no room for flinching. Discover related sayings in Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.
- Nov 07, 2020
I try to go unnoticed. I don't watch the news or read what they say. I try to stay on the sidelines.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are brutal and have no malice, which makes everything they say horribly cutting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people come to write about my period of office, I would be very happy if they say that I made a contribution to finding the happy medium again for the Germans.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
- True
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.
Others use the phrase to question a popular narrative, such as a skeptical take on a huge tech acquisition built on other people's work. For more on shared beliefs and everyday wisdom, see Good quotes and Like quotes.