Top 100 How To Say Quotes
#1. am Slinklebert Petrovius Mordechai Smythe, but everyone calls me Slinky, mainly because nobody can ever figure out how to say my name properly.
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#2. I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.
Octavia Spencer
#4. I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.
Eddie Vedder
#5. Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult self is always beginning. You are always learning how to say good-bye to whoever you were at the dinner table the night before.
Alison Espach
#6. It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.
Aristotle.
#7. I've had to learn how to say no to things, and have people around me that don't push me too hard, because I'll go until I just crash. I don't have a stop button.
Tove Lo
#8. You have to tell your children about the world they live in, about the discrepancies, about the things that don't work ... So you have to bring it up with a scientific orientation so they learn to ask questions, and learn how to say the most difficult thing in the world: 'I don't know'.
Jacque Fresco
#9. I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head," Winslow said. "Just for a moment. Then you'd know what all I can't find how to say.
Alan Heathcock
#10. He still had his eyes on me, and it occurred to me that he was thinking the same thing as I was; that I was very underdressed to be here. I needed to leave, and quickly. But I didn't know how to say goodbye ...
A. Esquivel
#11. The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
James M. Barrie
#12. One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.
Mary Schmich
#13. I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.
Sophia Loren
#14. Now that I've started touching her, I can't seem to stop. Like somehow the language of my hands will tell her all the things I don't know how to say out loud.
Holly Black
#15. I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window.
Rodney Dangerfield
#16. When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions
that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.
Edward Albee
#17. He has been in her heart for so long it is as if she knows him already, but she doesn't. She does not know what to say or how to say it, and suddenly she is afraid that there is a wrong way to move forward, a mistake that once made cannot be undone.
Kristin Hannah
#18. It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.
Drake
#19. I want to own you," Griffin whispered into Michael's ear. Michael smiled and for the first time in his life knew exactly what to say and how to say it. "You already do.
Tiffany Reisz
#20. With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.
Mignon McLaughlin
#21. He says nothing. Not because he disagrees, or disapproves, but because he's crying. Faintly I hear my father sniffling and wiping away tears, and I know he's proud, just incapable of expressing it. I can't fault the man for not knowing how to say what's in his heart. It's the family curse.
Andre Agassi
#22. I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.
Solange Knowles
#23. You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.
William Kennedy
#24. The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.
Phyllis Diller
#26. To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.
Elizabeth Charles
#27. I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.
Ann Rinaldi
#28. I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
David Simon
#29. No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.
Ellen Hopkins
#30. Can't I?" he said. "Did you know that they fertilized crops with human ash? After the war, the tomatoes were the size of an infant's head." He gave the words the same inflection that his grandfather did, only in English. They had a new but not unfamiliar sound on his tongue. He knew how to say them.
Boris Fishman
#31. I'll never think you're anything other than beautiful."
"You know how to say all the right things," I tell him.
"Because I'm with the right girl," he says against my skin.
Karina Halle
#32. If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.
Morgan Freeman
#33. The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.
Joy Williams
#34. I dont know how to say this but ... I LOVE YOU
Mickie James
#35. I don't know how to say it exactly. Only ... I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense?' he asks. I shake my head. How could he die as anyone but himself. 'I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I'm not.
Suzanne Collins
#36. He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
Homer
#37. So we liked to speak our minds, but not our hearts. Too bad, because sometimes people needed to hear that. A whole mess of things could have been avoided if we just knew how to say the right thing.
Mina V. Esguerra
#38. I bareley knew how to say "my name is," "please" and "thank you," or "I don't speak english," never mind understanding a Newfoundlander talking to me!
Sergei Ivantchev
#39. Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I just have to learn how to say 'no' more.
Penny Marshall
#41. I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
Anais Nin
#42. There are some people in the world that don't hug you all the time or play games but they still love you. They just don't know how to say it.
Cecelia Ahern
#43. I want.. she said, knowing what she wanted, feeling pulled toward it, arching toward it, but hardly knowing how to say it.
Laini Taylor
#44. Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#45. Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.
Jim Rohn
#46. I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.
Eric Betzig
#47. I never want to learn how to say goodbye
M. Pierce
#49. Elijah didn't know how to say no to the man. Wait. He knew how to say no, but Crane didn't know how to listen.
Lisa Henry
#50. I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don't know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.
Randy Houser
#51. The body is intelligent, I think. It knows how to say what it means to be alive better than the mind ever will.
Ken Liu
#52. I don't know how to say good-bye to you," she said. He smoothed her hair off her face. He'd never seen her so fair. "Then don't." "But I have to go. ... " "So go," he said with his hands on her cheeks. "But don't say good-bye. It's not good-bye.
Rainbow Rowell
#53. I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.
Chadwick Boseman
#54. To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".
Ayn Rand
#55. I have accepted that I don't know all the things that I ought to know, but I do know the things that I need to know. I don't know how to say, "I love you," but I do know how to show it. The people who love me know the same.
Hope Jahren
#56. You should learn when to go
YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO SAY NO
Courtney Love
#57. I have never known how to say goodbye. It is a failing that has been with me all of my life. It's especially problematic, given how often partings have come up.
Kristin Hannah
#58. But if there was a protocol for how to say goodbye to your newly ex-boyfriend's brother, right after you kissed him and probably sent your ex into the arms of his willing ex-girlfriend, I didn't know what it was.
Rachel Vincent
#59. Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.
Sandra Bullock
#60. Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off.
Charles Stross
#61. I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
Ben Affleck
#62. I've not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me ... I've not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
Nikki Giovanni
#63. Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
Olga Korbut
#64. Charientism (n.) A rhetorical term to describe saying a disagreeable thing in an agreeable way.
If I knew how to say disagreeable things in an agreeable fashion I most likely would not be spending most of my time siting alone in a room, reading the dictionary.
Ammon Shea
#65. I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
Cheryl Strayed
#66. Gwenda sighed. She did not know how to say what she felt. It was not just love. She thought about him all the time, and she did not know how she could live without him. She daydreamed about kidnapping him and locking him up in a hut deep in the forest so that he could never escape from her.
Ken Follett
#67. There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.
Beth Henley
#68. I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How are you?' and 'I want to work with Johnny Depp.'
Penelope Cruz
#69. A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.
Kirsten Dunst
#70. Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.
Richard Paul Evans
#71. Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.
C.S. Lewis
#72. I know what it's like to not fit in. Everyone thinks you're strange because you like to be alone, when really you just don't know how to say hello," Meryn whispered to the tiny creature. He looked up, surprised, and nodded.
Alanea Alder
#73. What is she to you?" she whispers. The real question and I know the answer even if I don't know how to say it. Drew's muffled voice rises up from the floor before I can respond. "Family," he says. And he's right.
Katja Millay
#74. I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.
Zeresenay Alemseged
#76. A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
Helen Rowland
#77. It started with the crash. I held on to all these emotions and truths that I should have expressed, but I didn't know how to say what I needed to say. I thought that would ruin us. Well, silence ruined us too.
Courtney C. Stevens
#78. To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-- or both.
Elizabeth Charles
#79. No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Victor Hugo
#80. In politics you learn how to say A mean to say B, in wisdom you learn how to say A and keep saying that.
Auliq Ice
#81. You don't learn how to say 'hey, I have a problem,' but you also don't learn how to hear it. There's a total breakdown of how females talk to one another. It's very disconcerting for leadership because it means you don't talk to each other; you talk about each other.
Rachel Simmons
#82. She tries to figure out how to say it so he hears her.
Laura Dave
#83. The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
Edward R. Murrow
#84. Wisdom does not only reflect itself in a person's knowledge of what to say. It appears also in his knowledge about how to say it and when it should be said!
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was 'Give me the fuckin money.
Elmore Leonard
#86. And when people cease to believe that there is good and evil,
Only beauty will call to them and save them
So that they will know how to say: this is true and that is false.
Czeslaw Milosz
#87. Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.
Amy Poehler
#88. Most times, the foreman says, it ain't knowing what to say as much as it is just being there not knowing how to say it
Marc Bojanowski
#89. He can be a great player in this league if he learns how to say two words: "I'm full."
Jerry Glanville
#90. When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.
Louis L'Amour
#91. In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.
Juan Pablo Galavis
#92. I've learned how to respect myself and how to say no. I've learned who I can really trust. I have 200 or 300 friends, but I probably trust four.
Miley Cyrus
#93. Learning how to say no is an important skill in life, but I've always thought that every time you refuse something, you end up dying a little.
Jane D. Red
#94. With you, it's... I don't even know how to say it. It's like you're a work of art. Every time I'm with you, I see something new. Something beautiful.
Lisa Brown Roberts
#95. The only reason we were married in such haste was that my mother begged me not to marry Andrew at all. One of you in a marriage has to be soft, she said. One of you has to know how to say, Have it your way. That's not going to be you, dear, so it might as well be the man.
Chris Cleave
#96. Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'
Amy Carmichael
#97. The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."
Tom Perrotta
#98. I've never said this to a girl before."
I bit my lip, waiting.
"Well ... " He looked down. "I'm not sure how to say this." He took a deep breath and announced, "I really like fighting evil with you.
Joan Bauer
#99. But you can't feel bad every second[ ... ] Laughing doesn't make bad thing worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human. But i didn't know how to say this, either.
Ransom Riggs
#100. For most, not knowing how to say no is where their lives decline into a thicket of stress and unhappiness. These individuals are easy to spot, as they constantly take on the role of victim to the world's desires.
Brendon Burchard
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