Top 663 Mentioned Quotes & Sayings

Readiness is an oft-mentioned - but frequently ignored - necessity.

Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.

Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.

In my pro and amateur fights I've always mentioned Mexico.

It's such a great honor to be mentioned along The Beatles.

I never mentioned my sexuality to Warner Bros. at all, and they never mentioned it to me, thank God.

It's an honor to be mentioned with a guy like Walter Payton.

There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible. In fact, external sources verify that at least eighty persons mentioned in the Bible were actual historical figures. Fifty people from the Old Testament, and thirty people from the New Testament.

To be mentioned in the same breath as people I admire means everything to me.

Oh, hey, maybe I should have mentioned that my friends are retarded douchebags.

I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary. And only once is he mentioned: when he was twelve years of age and he started arguing with the priests in the temple - that's all. Then there is a gap of eighteen years... nothing is mentioned.

It's an honor to be even mentioned in the same breath as Walter Payton.

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

I always wanted to be mentioned in the same breath as all of the great wrestlers.

I can walk into Walmart in California and not really get mentioned for being a football player.

A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.

Whenever the word 'weird' is mentioned it can only be an insult.

Interesting" he said. "You know, Simon never mentioned that his roommate was a werewolf.

I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don't want my name mentioned next to other rappers at all.

You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he left me." "Did he say anything more?" "He mentioned his name." Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me. "Oh, he mentioned his name, did he? That was imprudent. What was the name that he mentioned?" “His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

I would play in any number shirt for Newcastle United, but the No 9 at Newcastle is something very special and I've always wanted to wear it. I mentioned it to the manager, he mentioned it to Les and Les has been very kind and given it to me.

When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.

In fact, .. Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran.

"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

When you read 'author Katharine Holabird, creator of Angelina' and you're not even mentioned, you wince.

There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.

To be mentioned as a Test captain was a big surprise.

I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

It sure is cool that I was mentioned in 'Rolling Stone.'

One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.

I mentioned that Mignolet is bad at coming for crosses and as soon as that went into the newspapers, he got better.

The word love is never mentioned in big business.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.

It was an honor to have our album and names mentioned on the Billboard charts.

At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.

I was shocked when I would read a newspaper from that time, and the Freedom March wasn't even mentioned.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? ... When a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'An African American man was arrested today...' But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned.

[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.

Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.

It's a huge honour that I'm mentioned in the same breath as Mesut.

There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.

Iran, the Iranian government, has mentioned several times that it wouldn't attack Israel.

Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general.

As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin.

Have I mentioned you are the hottest geek I've ever known ?

DeGale's name has been mentioned to me and I'd fight him in a heartbeat.

The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.

I will say I would leave many of the decisions of some of the things you mentioned to the generals, the admirals, the people on top, and we get some of the - the Congressmen just mentioned to me and I - I think it's true 100 percent, you get your top enlisted people in that and you have some discussions with some of these top enlisted people who know it better than probably anybody.

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

Howard was actually the one who wanted to get married. From the second that he mentioned it, I was all in. I was so excited.