Top 100 No Not Quotes
#1. People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.
Wanda Sykes
#2. Oh, God, no! Not your fragile ego!" I slapped my hands to my cheeks and feigned horror, earning me one of Till's one-sided grins. "I know. I took it hard. I had to flex in front of the mirror for a full five minutes before I was able to come down here.
Aly Martinez
#3. Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?
Julian Barnes
#5. That's it?" Jason asked. "You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?"
No, not dying, Son. Living.
Ted Dekker
#6. There are many soul-stirring things in this world, but not many as profound as watching the beautiful man you love holding the baby you created together. No, not many.
Mia Sheridan
#7. Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.
Swami Vivekananda
#8. Peeling apples, just peeling apples. Didn't feel your boobs. No, no, not me
Alice Clayton
#9. And the first thing we have to do is vote. Hey, no, not just once in a while. Not just when my husband or somebody you like is on the ballot. But in every election at every level, all of the time.
Michelle Obama
#10. Um, I'm just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I've never been in The Groundlings or anything.
Ryan Hansen
#11. But in writing, I feel good - no, not just good, but full. Right, somehow. It's a feeling I haven't experienced in a long, long time, and it's this more than anything that convinces me...
Gayle Forman
#12. Foxleap, no! Not now! I've done everything I could! Oh StarClan, why can't you let me help these cats?
Erin Hunter
#13. So what's your story?" he asked, sitting down next to me at a safe distance. "I already told you my story. I was diagnosed when - " "No, not your cancer story. Your story. Interests, hobbies, passions, weird fetishes, etcetera." "Um," I said.
John Green
#14. No, not immeasurably: you have abilities, but there's a great deal you don't understand, because you're a low person.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#15. People can never own people but whether I can be with him or not right now, the answer is no. Not now. Maybe in another time.
Cecelia Ahern
#16. When I see Kaede nod her head in Tess's direction, I rise up from my crouch. This trot's going to choose Tess. Oh, hell no. Not while I'm watching. Not if Kaede wants to live.
Marie Lu
#17. No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.
Thomas Boston
#18. There are times in my career where I can see it would be helped by having a bit more of a profile, but it's not like I refuse to do interviews, no, not at all.
Michael Sheen
#19. You are an arrogant bastard. (Thanatos)
No, not an arrogant bastard. I'm nothing but a piece of shit who touched a star. Now I'm the son of a bitch who's going to put you out of your misery. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. There is no reason for him to be in a strange land, the grim reaper holding him close, saying, "Yes, today is the day," or "No, not yet.
Suzanne Hayes
#21. Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!
Swami Vivekananda
#22. Thank you," he says.
"Thank who?"
"I don't know. You?"
"No, not me. Jesus."
"Thank you, Jesus?"
"Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun.
Dave Eggers
#23. Everyone says she's mad.'
'How do they know?' I asked.
'Because she's different from other people, I suppose.'
'Is that being mad?'
'No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.
Ruskin Bond
#24. You shouldn't let him hit you so much" observed saphira
"Yes I realize that'" he growled.
"Do you want me to knock him over for you?"
"No ... not today.
Christopher Paolini
#25. To my wonderful readers:
Sorry about that last cliff-hanger.
Well, no, not really. HAHAHAHA.
But seriously, I love you guys.
Rick Riordan
#26. Ranger clicked his penlight on. "Hang onto me if you can't see."
I curled my hand into the back of his cargo pants just above his gun belt. "I'm good to go."
He was still for a beat. "You could have held on to my jacket," he said.
"Would you rather I do that?"
"No. Not even a little.
Janet Evanovich
#27. The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
Aldous Huxley
#28. The serpent tries to engulf my head. No, not a snake, an oxygen mask.
Andrew Davidson
#29. My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.'
Kevin Hart
#30. Griffin's narrow, crooked smile held a hint of derision. "You are a romantic, then."
"No. Not at all. But I hold out hope that others might be.
Jo Goodman
#31. Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to.
Douglas Adams
#32. No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.
Stacey Kade
#33. No, not anonymous. Maybe she didn't matter enough to the Brauns, certainly not enough to her mother and Uncle Dolf, and definitely not at all to Reinhard. But she mattered to herself. And that was all that needed to be true. She would figure something out
Anne Blankman
#34. When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, "Of course you are." And I'm like "No, not, 'Of course I am.'"
Condola Rashad
#35. Young? He'd hear his own harsh, pained laugh. Oh, no, not this lass. She's old. She walked under a blood-red moon in the dawn of time, did this one. Her face is the face of all that cannot be fathomed, and she's looking you in the eye, Whiskeyjack, and you'll never know what she's thinking.
Steven Erikson
#36. I can help Katy," Blake wheezed. "Good enough for you?"
"What?" I demanded, dropping my hands.
"Yeah, see, you saying her name alone makes me want to kill you. So, no, not good enough for me.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#37. I miss you. No, not just miss you, my heart aches every day because you're not there.
Tarryn Fisher
#38. No metal can
no, not the hangman's axe
bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.
William Shakespeare
#39. (That's why contraception is wrong by nature: it's a limit, a "Wait! Hold! No! Not quite! We won't give each other Everything")
Peter Kreeft
#40. Was there much damage done to your ship? (Nykyrian)
No, not really. Just enough to seriously piss me off and ruin my suckass day. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#41. Several do math on their fingers. Then they raise their hands as one. "Can we see it?" "No." "Not even open the first door?" "No." "Have you seen it?" "I have not." "So how do you know it's really there?" "You have to believe the story." "How much is it worth, Monsieur? Could
Anthony Doerr
#43. Why does everything have to be so damn hard on me? Women everywhere can drop their panties and have mindless sex, but no, not me! I have to get emotionally invested in a douchenozzle who is only willing to knock me up for his own pleasure!
Katie Ashley
#44. Ghosts!" gasped Alice. "Real, live ghosts?"
"No! Not 'real, live ghosts!' Spooky, dead ghosts!
Kellyn Roth
#45. Underneath the mass of fused tendrils he could make out the shape of a head, wide shoulders, a massive chest and arms, like the creature was stuck waist deep in the earth. No, not stuck - rising.
Rick Riordan
#46. Perhaps i am a masochist.
No. Not Possible. If I were basically a masochist then most of my life would have been just nothing but concentrated fun. Every time I woke up, bleeding from my heart and soul, I'd find myself barely able to hide my joy.
A. L. Kennedy
#47. Was I shy? No. Not shy. Just, usually blissfully indifferent. I liked it that way. It was safer.
Samantha Young
#48. L.P. So your work must fight religion?
J.H. No, not at all! It fights the unconsciousness, the blindness, that all myth creates about itself. You never can see the actual myth you are in or only through a glass darkly.
James Hillman
#49. It's funny because when I first met with Carmen, she said, "Have you ever thought about doing TV?" And I was like, "No, not really, but I'd audition for TV." And she said, "That's where the roles are for women now. That's where you can go and get a really great part."
Eve Hewson
#51. No. Not really red,
but the color of a rose when it bleeds.
Anne Sexton
#52. I bit my lip. "If what you feel is wrong then what I feel for you is doubly wrong."
"Do two wrongs make a right?" he asked.
"No, not usually," I said.
"Not usually," he repeated. "Does that mean you're willing to try?"
Siva and Sloane
Micalea Smeltzer
#53. Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.
John Green
#54. No, not officially. But you know what they say about Gunshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because everytime a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves the town.
John Green
#55. Cause you a star - no, not the type that snort the white lines
I mean the type to light the night time
J. Cole
#56. I liked you, cop. From the moment I met you. No ... not the first moment. I wanted to kill you when I first met you. But then I liked you. A lot.
J.R. Ward
#57. No. Not you. But if you're bothered, remind me when I get back - we can talk about your initiation. I like the idea of you kneeling at my feet.
Ellen Connor
#58. This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.
Luis Federico Leloir
#59. No, not in a creepy way. I am anti-incest. It says so on my bumper sticker.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#60. Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success.
Annie Oakley
#61. It's like you are oozing magic." Tari rolled her eyes.
"Yes I am an all-powerful witch," she said sarcastically.
"No. Not a witch, but something. I can't explain it. It's as if magic is your friend," Ivy continued.
S.K. Whiteside
#62. Oh, no, not likely. No one capable of tragedy could have married Mrs. Lanoline.
E. M. Forster
#63. Hmm," he said. "Like the world is big again. No. Not again. Like I only thought it had gotten small while I was inside, but now I see it was big the whole time, just waiting out there. Waiting for me to come back.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#64. But really, my ability to exercise oversight willingly flows from my vision. No, not a vision for an "awesomely bold" church - at least, not at first - but of my God and for the flock of God that is among me.
Jared C. Wilson
#65. I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like ... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.
Kajol
#66. No, not Jove
Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
Robert Herrick
#67. I have no gospel to preach to the self-righteous, no, not a word of it. Jesus Christ himself came not to call the righteous, and I am not going to do what He did not do.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#68. I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.
Mamie Gummer
#69. I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry ... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.
Adriana Lima
#70. He focused his mind on other things so his pecker would behave and not turn any harder than it already was. Things like pruning bushes, and weeding the vegetable garden, and planting his cock deep inside her. "No, No, not that, I mustna dwell on that.
Vonnie Davis
#71. I cannot tell a lie. It was me who
chopped down the cherry tree. Now that
I've been so honest, make me a
precedent. No, not president. I said
precedent.
Ali Smith
#72. I give myself to you." she whispered.
"No. Not yet," he sighed.
"If not now, when?" ... "Time might be running out for me. For us.
Melissa De La Cruz
#73. About Siri . . . Snuffles?" said Harry. "No . . . not exactly . . ." said Hermione slowly. "More . . . wondering . . . I suppose we're doing the right thing . . . I think . . . aren't we?" Harry and Ron looked at each other.
J.K. Rowling
#74. Are you a hero, actually?"
"Um, no. Not as such. Not at all, really. Even less than that, in fact.
Terry Pratchett
#76. Do we have a plan?" "A couple," Jim said. "Either of them good?" "Oh, no. Not at all. Just different flavors of terrible.
James S.A. Corey
#77. When I play stuff for my wife she'll be like, "No, not that song. No way."
Walter Martin
#78. Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
Kate DiCamillo
#79. Do you know what you want to do?" "No. Not really." "But you know what you don't want to do?" "Yes," I answered definitely. "Then there's your starting point.
Kylie Scott
#80. No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.
Catherynne M Valente
#81. Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
Jackie Collins
#82. Write," he said.
"I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian.
"No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#83. Would you say my head was like a pumpkin, Wooster?' 'Not a bit, old man.' 'Not like a pumpkin?' 'No, not like a pumpkin. A touch of the dome of St Paul's, perhaps.
P.G. Wodehouse
#84. I didn't do it
That's a lie
I didn't do it
No, not I
I didn't do it
Hear me cry
I didn't do it
Hope to die
I didn't do it
I'm not that bad
But if I did ...
Would you be mad?
Shel Silverstein
#85. Are you going to rape me?" "No. Not until you ask me to." Then
Skye Warren
#86. Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.
Patsy Cline
#87. No, not you two. Stay here.'
'Does he just not get how unfair and sexist that is?' Eve asked. 'Men.'
'You really want to go first?'
'Of course no. But I'd like the chance to refuse to go first.
Rachel Caine
#88. Dan: 'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.'
Ellen: 'No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman.
Ellen DeGeneres
#89. No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things.
Brandon Sanderson
#91. Down, boy! Couchant! I said couchant! No! Not rampant!
Terry Pratchett
#92. Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Doris Lessing
#93. So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
William Blackstone
#94. A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.
Ann Romney
#95. The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Robert Fulghum
#97. I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.
Richie Havens
#98. -You are on the verge of being truly mad.
-No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?
Anne Rice
#99. Somethin' about the lad draws her to 'im, just like somethin' about her draws 'im to 'er. You understand?"
"No, not at all." Ryder exhaled. "You say the word 'him' and 'her' so messed up, do you know that? The letter H is just completely disregarded.
L.A. Casey
#100. Get a PHD No, not a doctoral degree. I mean a PHD attitude: Poor, Hungry and Driven.
James Scott Bell
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