Top 100 I Never Said Quotes
#1. I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
Jeff Daniels
#2. I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.
Elliott Abrams
#3. With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Studs Terkel
#4. I never said you were my friend. I just didn't have the guts to tell you to leave.
Kris Harte
#5. I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
Billy Joel
#6. The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who would climb and live must continuously wage this battle and never let folly win. It's an outrageously demanding proposition. But I never said it was easy.
Royal Robbins
#7. I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.
Greta Garbo
#8. I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.
Marilyn Manson
#9. I never said I was gay - or not gay. Everyone's always telling me what I am. I just want the chance to find out for myself" Teddy
Ali Katz
#10. I never said that. The fact is we are going to open over hundreds of stores this year and next and increase employment by over 5,000 jobs worldwide. And, we have no plans to cut team hours as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
John Schnatter
#11. When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
Pete Rose
#12. The people who wrote the mediaeval ballads knew more about fairies than you do. It isn't only nice things that happen in fairyland. ... I never said it was wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was dangerous.
G.K. Chesterton
#13. TRAVIS: I never said I like boys!
GORDO: Ever beat off to Penthouse?
TRAVIS: No.
GORDO: Ever collect baseball cards?
TRAVIS: No.
GORDO: How old is Barbra Streisand?
TRAVIS: 36. Three weeks ago.
GORDO:What do you need - a fucking blueprint?
Steve Kluger
#14. I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
Chuck Close
#15. Thomas rolled his eyes. "I never said jack about me being braver than anybody. I'm just sick of hearing people's voices. Yours included."
Minho snickered. "Slinthead, when you try to be mean, it's just freaking hilarious.
James Dashner
#17. So, we're not enemies anymore?" She said.
"I never said I wanted to be, believe me. When I saw you sitting in your own, eating lunch, all I wanted to do was fool around and make you smile." He shot her a shy glance.
Kathryn James
#18. I never said I liked coffee better than sex. I said I'd had it more.
Kevin Sinnott
#19. Admittedly, I dressed up for the occasion again - I never said I wasn't fucked up.
Nina G. Jones
#20. I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.
Elayne Boosler
#21. I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
Horace Greeley
#22. I never said that. I just didn't correct you when you were, you know, wrong. Anyway, I just saved you from being burned to death, so I figure you're not allowed to be mad. -Jace
Cassandra Clare
#23. I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
Marilyn Manson
#24. I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl.
Kelly Clarkson
#25. I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.
Jodi Picoult
#26. I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Alfred Hitchcock
#27. As he was
forced to tell his father more than once, "I said I'd fight for my mother's
throne. I never said I'd die for it." Then he'd add, simply to annoy the old
bastard into one of his frothy temper tantrums, "Don't you think I'm too
pretty to die?
G.A. Aiken
#28. I only said I felt like God, Sassenach," he murmured. "I never said I was.
Diana Gabaldon
#29. Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?"
"I'm pretty sure I never said that.
Rick Riordan
#30. I never said I didn't like kissing you. The problem is too many guys have like kissing you. - Erik Night to Zoey Redbird (Ch 26)
P.C. Cast
#31. I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything ... All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#32. Sully: I never said good-bye
Giselle: Such a needless word when you love somebody
Mitch Albom
#33. There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.
Thomas Hobbes
#34. I promised to touch your soul. I never said it would be painless.
Nicole Lyons
#35. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
Carey Mulligan
#36. I never said that I was going to write a literary masterpiece. I just wanted to write something to make people feel something, hopefully in the nether regions.
Jennifer Lassalle Edwards
#37. I never said I was the King Of Rock'n' Roll. I said simply that I'm the best
Jerry Lee Lewis
#38. You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind.
I know you hate Americans, but
I never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesn't matter to me what country you're from. You women are fucking stupid, and I'm tired of saving you. All of you.
Allie Burke
#39. Okay, let's do a tally. You think I'm infuriating, wimpy, and...adorable."
"I never said adorable."
He shifted closer, craving the heat of her body. "I know, but you're thinking it.
Cathryn Fox
#40. I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.
Sister Souljah
#41. I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.
Frank Gehry
#42. Good. And you know what Peregrine wants you to do. You know he wants you to help us?"
"I never said that," Perry said.
Time stopped. The look on Hess's and Sable's faces-and even the Guardians behind them-was worth and price Perry would need to pay.
Veronica Rossi
#43. I wasn't the one who got on a plane and left the fucking state the next day, Jillian. I never said I didn't want you.
Kristen Proby
#44. Personally, I don't do certain things. I read articles and they'll pit me against Lil' Kim like I'm going to smash them down. I never said any of that; I never said I didn't like Kim or Foxy [Brown].
Jean Grae
#45. I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!
Muhammad Ali
#46. I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.
Bob Parsons
#47. I've lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.
Ann Aguirre
#48. I never said I was a weightlifter. I never said I was trained. I'm not a personal trainer. I just enjoy working out. So sometimes I feel like, do I have to write a disclaimer? Like, disclaimer: "I'm not a trainer."
Khloe Kardashian
#49. I never said I knew much. How was I supposed to learn anything living out here? I didn't know enough to do half the things I did in my life. Things happen. You do what you can about them and you see what happens next.
Marsha Norman
#50. After a piece ran, a guy claimed I claimed I was from CNN. I never said that. But if you make a man comedically look like Hitler and it turns out that he is a retired lawyer with a lot of time on his hands, you're going to get sued. That's the lesson for today, children. STEVE
Chris Smith
#51. I can say.. that I never said that... we never met and this never happen... How?
(Good question, the answer I will leave it for later)
Deyth Banger
#52. I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
Bette Davis
#53. I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.
Phil Collins
#54. I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy ... ' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate.
Alessia Cara
#55. I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Calvin Coolidge
#56. I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#57. Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'
Conan O'Brien
#58. People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.
Gail Devers
#59. Why a raven?"
"To honor my father."
"The writing under it, is that Cyrillic?"
"Yes."
"What does it say?"
"Dar Vorona. Gift of the Raven. I am my father's gift."
"The raven is holding a bloody sword."
"I never said it was a nice gift.
Ilona Andrews
#60. I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.
Charles Richet
#61. I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.
Christopher Reeve
#62. The things I never said are waiting somewhere-like the things I wanted to do and never did.
Flavia Bujor
#63. I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.
Jack Dempsey
#64. I never said half the things I said.
Yogi Berra
#65. I said I wasn't going to hurt you!" he growled, pinning me even further into the soft, wet earth.
"But I never said that I wouldn't hurt you!" I snapped.
He brought his face toward mine. "I'd like to see you try," he whispered.
Ada Adams
#66. I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
Beth Ditto
#67. I've never said I was the best dancer, and I never said I was a good dancer.
Bill Engvall
#68. Very much on the defensive, I admitted that I liked to read.
"Sure," Sammy said, "I never said I had anything against reading books ... "
"The publishers will be relieved to know that," I tried to insert, but Sammy was too quick for me and was already rounding the bend of his next sentence.
Budd Schulberg
#69. I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.
Danny Aiello
#70. Yet he too obsessed me for years. Until I wrote it out, I would find my lips moving; I would be arguing with him; raging against him; saying to myself all that I never said to him. How deep they drove themselves into me, the things it was impossible to say aloud.
Virginia Woolf
#71. I had put a shower curtain on the floor, covered the couches and our new flat-screen TV with garbage bags. The midwife asked, "What do you think is going to happen in here?" I never said I was smart.
Jim Gaffigan
#72. I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
Kapil Dev
#73. I wasn't about to tell him that I never said anything to anyone who teased me. I just went along with it like it was my joke too. I wanted everyone to like me ...
Sydney Salter
#74. In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#75. I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it it really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one.
G.K. Chesterton
#77. Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.
Marilyn Manson
#78. I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic," said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.
Rebecca McNutt
#79. I never said I hated the Marine Corps! I only said it was no place for a sensitive, civilized, self-respecting human being.
William Styron
#80. I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.
Ron Conway
#81. I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.
Josh Homme
#82. but I never said a thing about Patra and Paul, and I never told her what I really thought about Christian Science, which is that from what I know, from what little I know, it offers one of the best accounts of the origin of human evil. This
Emily Fridlund
#83. I said I would kiss you. I never said where I would kiss you."
[ ... ] "A kiss between two people is, by definition, on the lips," she argued.
[ ... ] "But this isn't about two people kissing. It's me kissing you.
Nalini Singh
#84. I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me ...
Bo Burnham
#86. Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.
Dorothy Parker
#87. I never said I wasn't Black ... I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected my personal beliefs and comments to spark such emotion in people. I think it is only positive when we can openly discuss race and being labeled in America.
Raven-Symone
#88. Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, 'Oh, my God, another rep.' I said, 'Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality.'
Sylvester Stallone
#89. I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret."
- Clare Harding
From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by Lani Brown.
Lani Brown
#90. I never said good-bye.'
'Such a needless word, she said, 'when you love somebody.
Mitch Albom
#91. I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?
E. Stanley Jones
#92. I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
Patton Oswalt
#93. I never said I'd support Paul Ryan. I'm giving it very serious consideration.
Donald Trump
#94. I said I wasn't going to fight with you about Jared anymore, I never said I wasn't going to fight for you.
Jamie McGuire
#95. Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl ... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.
Karl Lagerfeld
#96. I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.
Janette Rallison
#98. I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.
Tina Turner
#100. I'm not good at casual sex," I said in a breath. "I never said it would be casual.
Pepper Winters
