Top 5 I Say Quotes
#1. A rare tear slides down his cheek.
When he looks back at me, I say quietly, 'What's this feeling that screams inside of me?'
'Love,' he tells me with such certainty.
Krista Ritchie
#2. How can I tell what I mean till I see what I say?
Anonymous
#3. In a louder voice than I'd intended, I say, "Hey, beautiful."
"Shhh!" She attacks. "If you wake that baby, I'll pluck out every pubic hair you have the next time you fall asleep."
My eyes widen. She's been spending way too much time with Delores these days.
Emma Chase
#4. I want to go to the next doctor's visit with you," I tell her.
"Okay."
"Don't get too excited about all of this. You'll wake up the baby," I say dryly.
Elle Kennedy
#5. Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.
Grandma Moses
#6. If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.
Derek Sanderson
#7. Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don't want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons.
Roman Payne
#8. You are hiding something from me, I say and Sidney Grice shakes his head. 'No,' he tells me quietly. 'I am hiding a great many things'.
M.R.C. Kasasian
#9. Reed, I should've protected myself against you, but I didn't and now you live here, inside of me," I say, pointing to my heart. "I won't ever be able to run from the love I have for you. Your name is written on my heart. I can't hide from it and it will wreck me if something happens to you -
Amy A. Bartol
#10. What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#11. Do we have to have the 'don't lie to the telepath' talk again? It won't take long. I say 'don't lie to the telepath, it never works,' you glare at me, and then you go find something you can hit.
Seanan McGuire
#12. When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.
Francisco Costa
#13. I'll be honest; I'm a student of fashion. I say that because I just wear what I feel. I'm not led by name brands and things like that.
Keri Hilson
#14. Uh,we didn't get your name.Did we get his name Emma?" she says as if on cue.
"I tried,Chloe.But he wouldn't tell me,so I tackled him," I say rolling my eyes.
Anna Banks
#15. People say, 'I'm a woman trapped in a man's body' or 'I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,' but I say 'I'm trapped in a body.'
Genesis P-Orridge
#16. O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. I say this to myself alone: when you feel crushed, those around you look broken. When you glow, darkness turns to black light. If you hurt, even the comforts you are offered wound you. As you prosper, your failures prove to be just the right thing, perfect.
Bahauddin
#18. & we cannot separate the roof from the heart
from the trees that were there, standing.
& so it is, when I say "night,"
it is your name I am calling,
when I say "field,"
your thousand, thousand names,
your million names.
Aracelis Girmay
#19. I don't think there's any limit on True Blue Love. The more the merrier, I say," said Harry.
Patricia Martin
#20. They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?
Samuel Butler
#22. I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.
Kaley Cuoco
#23. I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.
Jamie Foxx
#24. To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
William Hague
#25. My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.
William Lloyd Garrison
#26. Nights would have been expressionless
had it not been for the moon.
The moon, I say, is a mood.
Geetika Kohli
#27. It's a fool who is afraid of nothing," I say. "And a brave man is one who knows fear and rides out and faces it.
Philippa Gregory
#28. I'm always about having integrity with my fans and staying true to what I say.
Tinashe
#29. I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.
Kelly Osbourne
#30. I have just put this to see how much people can think, how much just follow what I say without thinking... (Just Simple Psychology)
Deyth Banger
#31. Some people like to keep their grass cut really short, so they can see the intruders coming. Keep those kill zones open. I say let the grass grow tall so they don't know there's a house behind it. Some call it lazy, I say it's thinking.
Jeff Foxworthy
#32. On a good night, I'm just into the flow and seeing the pictures and words in my mind clearly before I say them. On a bad night, which to be honest are nowhere near as bad as when I was starting out, I just concentrate on performing the routines correctly. I focus on my delivery.
Franklyn Ajaye
#33. When I do have choice I try to be very picky about ... or shall I say choosey about when I choose. I don't automatically decide that I must be the one to choose or that it's important for me to make every choice in my life.
Sheena Iyengar
#34. Hummingbird Suppose I say summer, write the word "hummingbird," put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you. - RAYMOND CARVER
Catherine McKenzie
#35. You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
Octavia E. Butler
#36. Does this current deterioration and corruption of language, imprecision of thought, and so forth scare you - or is it just a decadent phase?
AUDEN
It terrifies me. I try by my personal example to fight it; as I say, it's a poet's role to maintain the sacredness of language.
W. H. Auden
#37. Whenever anyone asks me if I'm from a TV show, I say yes - no matter whether I've ever been on it. It just makes the conversation that much easier.
Michael Ian Black
#38. Sevro snorts. "What do you think I've been doing this whole time, you silky turd? Wanking off in the bushes?"
Cassius and I look at each other.
"Kind of," I say.
"Yeah, actually," Cassius agrees.
Pierce Brown
#39. They say, they own a piece of land. I say, you don't even own your own body.
Vinita Kinra
#40. But there's nothing up there but the wounded!" I say. "Katniss" I hear the warning note in Haymitch's voice and know what's coming. Don't you even think about-!" I yank the earpiece free and let it hang from its wire.
Suzanne Collins
#41. When people say "What do you want people to get from this movie?" I say, "Well, it depends on what they bring to it." I don't try to decide what people should get from it or why. I don't do a part for those kinds of reasons.
Denzel Washington
#42. A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
Yogi Berra
#43. Laura was flint in a nest of thistledown.
I say flint, not stone: a flint has a heart of fire.
Margaret Atwood
#44. Sure. Happy to do it,' I say. In terms of level of truthfulness, that statement would rank with something like, 'Damn, I'm going to be traveling to Saturn that day to go giraffe hunting.
David Rosenfelt
#45. I don't give a darn about coal or about oil. I do give a darn about oil jobs. I do give a darn about the jobs that coal can bring ... I am against the Obama administration demonizing certain forms of energy and glorying others. I say, bring it all in.
Niger Innis
#46. Carpe omnia," I say. Not carpe diem. Not Seize the Day. No, this says Seize Everything. I'll
Maria Dahvana Headley
#47. And Tiny is saying, "If you can't trust your gut then what can you trust?"And I say, "You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly," which is true. Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
David Levithan
#48. It doesn't have many roots,' I say. 'Not yet,' she says. 'That will come.
Ally Condie
#49. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that's when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna has turned me into a mockingjay.
Suzanne Collins
#50. I'm not usually this emotional," I say. He shrugs. "All women say that. It usually precedes an episode of batshit craziness.
Tammy Falkner
#51. I can't stay mad very long. I get grumpy when I read a bad review. I say, 'How could he say that about my music?' Then I forget about it. If I got mad every time somebody wrote something negative about me, I'd be exploding all the time. I'd be burned out just from reading reviews.
Julian Lennon
#52. Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.
Bill Bradley
#53. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
Walt Whitman
#54. Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
Ira Glass
#55. I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.
George Carlin
#56. I like when I don't have to be careful what I say. That's when you know you're with the right people.
Anonymous
#57. I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#58. Radical Islamic terrorism came into effect even more so than it has been in the past. People like what I say. People respect what I say. And we've opened up a very big discussion that needed to be opened up.
Donald Trump
#59. Do you scent the same things I do?"
Ransom made a face when she described what she'd picked up from the passing vamp. "Yeah, except I don't say shit like 'cinnamon spice with a hint of burnt oak.' I say 'dude smells like an electrified tree with a side of doughnut topping.
Nalini Singh
#60. And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
C.S. Lewis
#61. Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!' 'I haven't the least idea what you're talking
Lewis Carroll
#62. You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.
Joel Osteen
#63. If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.
J.M. Coetzee
#64. I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.'
And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me.
He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.
Markus Zusak
#65. Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#66. Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.
Robert Duvall
#67. Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.
G.K. Chesterton
#68. Since when do you look out for me? You really have grown up."
"Had to happen sometime," I say.
Ashley Newell
#69. No. All I say is that it is not argument that convinces me of the necessity of a future life, but this: when you go hand in hand with someone and all at once that person vanishes there, into nowhere, and you yourself are left facing that abyss, and look in. And I have looked in. . . .
Leo Tolstoy
#70. I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
Aristotle.
#71. God gave us dreams, but he gave us kids to make all those dreams worthwhile. And when I look at all my kids, I say everything that I've ever went through in my life was worthwhile.
Tracy Morgan
#72. I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
Maeve Binchy
#73. I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
Margaret Thatcher
#74. Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.
Medeia Sharif
#75. I say "I'm fine," because that's what you do. When someone asks how you are, you say fine, regardless of whether it's true.
Bette Lee Crosby
#76. I assume that, as usual, he is asking this question rhetorically, so I say nothing so he'll go on ranting, because as painful as it is for me to admit, there is something kind of wonderful about Tiny's ranting, particularly on a quiet street when I am still half asleep.
John Green
#77. Many have said, "Follow my steps" I say to you, create your own paths, and follow no one, live, risk it all, die and be free.
Quetzal
#78. Actually I'm taking her for a ride," I say slyly, inching my hand up the back of Ella's leg and she slaps the back of my head playfully. "I'm taking you for a ride in my car. And you think I'm the pervert.
Jessica Sorensen
#79. War makes monsters of men," I say, quoting Ben from that night in the weird place where New World buried its dead.
"And women," Mistress Coyle says.
Patrick Ness
#80. I don't know about you, but I say we shoot the fuckers, bury the bodies and deny they were ever here. - Mordecai
Lora Leigh
#81. I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
Marianne Faithfull
#82. I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.
Marilyn Manson
#83. Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'
Lillian Gordy Carter
#84. I really believe that God builds all the bridges, writes all the books, and delivers all the speeches. When I say God, again, I mean that source we all come from, we all are pieces of, and we all are connected to.
Wayne Dyer
#85. The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
Zhuangzi
#86. It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.
Suzanne Collins
#87. Your heels are damaging my rug. It's an eighty-thousand-dollar rug."
I say, "You like me in heels. Money doesn't signify anymore. And at least I'm not burning holes in it."
"A wiser woman wouldn't remind me of that time. I'm still pissed about it.
Karen Marie Moning
#88. Close your eyes," I say to Ky, and I bend down, his breathing above me while he waits. "There," I say, and he looks at what I've written. I love you.
Ally Condie
#89. When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be.
Donna Lynn Hope
#90. There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.
Marilyn Manson
#92. Why do the gingerbread girls have to wear pink?" Penny asks.
"Why should the gingerbread girls feel like they shouldn't wear pink?" I say. "I like pink."
"Only because you've been conditioned to like it by Barbies and gendered Lego."
"Lay off, Penny. I've never played with Lego.
Rainbow Rowell
#93. -Are you always this crass?"
-"What can I say?" he replied spreading his hands wide with a beaming smile. "You bring out the best in me. Although, I'd prefer to sink my best into you," he winked.
Eve Langlais
#94. I say I write to you, but, truth be told, I prefer the American idiom: I write you. I'll write you friends say, as if, in writing, someone could be caused to appear, as if writing were a spell, some form of conjuration. So, I write you to bring you here, bring you back.
Julian Wolfreys
#95. What angers me are all those kings who are fabled for the heaps of gold in their coffers, and their freedom from trouble and pain. I have a different vision. I say that the true leader shuns luxury and ease. Once in power, he should want to work harder than ever.
Xenophon
#96. I roll my eyes at Alys. "Do you think they give discounts?" I say. She shrugs and continues drinking her soup.
"Of course they'll give discounts. We just have to pay for them!" cackles Aunt May.
Amelia Warren
#97. Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.
Douglas Alexander
#98. I say that what one loves is best:
The midnight fastness of the heart.
Allen Tate
#99. We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#100. What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.
Amit Kalantri
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