In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
Nobody says 'a working man,' but they say, 'a working woman.' And there is still a strange connotation to that.
They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.
When I was a kid, we'd go crabbing, as a lot of folks do on the East Coast, and we'd catch some fresh crabs and take it home, and Mom would turn it into this unbelievable crab gravy - or, as they say, sauce.
I've played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.
Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.
They say the people most affected by the credit crunch are pensioners - well, let go of the handbag then, Nanna.
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.
Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
They say women and music should never be dated.
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.
Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.
When I learned Japanese, they say that I sounded like a Chinese with diarrhea!
When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.'
The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.