As a truck driver once said to me, he said, The world had a new center, and that center was Mary Anne.

I actually had a therapist who once said to me, Eve, you've been coming here for two years, and, to be honest, it never occurred to me that you had a body.

A friend of mine once said, You know, a three year old is not half a six year old.

A Filipina activist once said to me, How do you cook a rice cake?

Camels are like angels, a Bedouin once said.

Shakespeare once said, If music be the food of love, play on.

DENVER A senior Russian diplomat, in contrasting North Korea and Iran, once said to me The North Koreans are like neighborhood children with matches.

And on my wedding day, my father came to me again and said, You know, I'm going to remind you again, that each generation has to do better than the last one.

Robert Frost once said that, It is poetry that is lost in translation.

And this is what he said The island is the canoe the canoe, the island.

Okay? My dear friend Majora Carter once told me, we have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

Indeed, Henry Kissinger once told me that he believes that Chinese traditional thought has a greater chance than any foreign ideology (say, Marxism or liberalism) of becoming the dominant intellectual force behind Chinese foreign policymaking.

And then afterwards he said to me, It will always be difficult, but if you cry like this every time, you will die of heartbreak.

So I said to him, How was it? and he answered, It needs two more generations.

Edison stated it best. He said, Hell, we ain't got no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.

But I had a really striking experience once, when a group from Afghanistan came to visit me, and we had a really interesting conversation.

Antoine de Saint Exupery once said, If you want to build a flotilla of ships, you don't sit around talking about carpentry.

Research errors in economics are not uncommon, but they are usually caught at an early stage, as happened once to me in a prepublication draft.

Thomas Edison once said, We don't know one percent of one millionth about anything.

It doesn't matter what people think, the powerful cleric Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi once said. The people are ignorant sheep.

DENVER A senior Russian diplomat, in contrasting North Korea and Iran, once said to me The North Koreans are like neighborhood children with matches.

When I was first elected as a member of parliament in 1981, people said, Now George, you ve got to bang the table.

No, the boy said to me the boy said to me, It would destroy me.

The great poet Emily Dickinson once said, There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.

Steven Weinberg, the Nobel laureate, once said, The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

The last time I spoke to Yasser, he told me

Somebody once said that nostalgia is the one utterly most useless human emotion so I think that s a case for serious play.

Albert Szent Gyorgi once said that, Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen, and thinking what no one has thought.

Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt once quipped that politicians who have a vision should go and have their eyes checked.

he said to me his life story

He told me everything.

He told me the same thing.

Somebody once said, Al Qaeda does not have a return address, so if they attack us with a nuclear weapon, what's the response, and to whom is the response?

TOKYO The American economist Herbert Stein once said that if something cannot continue forever, it will not.

Mary once worked as a tourist guide.

Tom once worked as a tour guide.

Like a boomerang, the thing I loved came back to me.

He told me not to drive too fast.

One of them said in a deep Aleppean accent What, sister?

DENVER Insanity, Albert Einstein is reported to have said, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

It seeks desperate forms of survival, and that is why, as the great Peruvian Cesar Vallejo said once, it lights its captive torch and prays angrily.

The late US statesman Richard Holbrooke once said to me that America since 9 11 had suffered a militarization of diplomacy.

It was my first time in Kuwait, I went once in Dubai and I loved it over there. In Dubai I used shotguns which made quite an impression on me.. and my shoulder.

I remember once he told me a story about a joke that the students played on him.

Robert Kennedy once said that few of us have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events.