Top 100 Out Loud Quotes
#1. My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.
Pete Wentz
#2. I almost gasp out loud when I realise: Who I am is what I choose to do. Just like Mum. Who she is, at her core, is made up of all the decisions she makes.
Teri Terry
#3. I've always hated my voice. You sound different in your head when you hear it out loud.
Kit Harington
#4. I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.
Harry S. Truman
#5. She called herself Mater Tantibus." I scraped the rust off my Latin. "Mother of Nightmares?" "Pretentious, right?" Said the Grand Matriarch of the House of Dead Roses, I thought, but I was smart enough not to say that out loud.
Craig Schaefer
#6. Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.
Cassandra Clare
#7. I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.
Helen Hunt
#8. I'm a food addict. I've tried everything- Weight Watchers, The South Beach, raw food, Atkins, low-fat diets. Nothing works for me." I looked at him and said, "Have you tried suffering?" He laughed out loud, as if I was joking. I wasn't joking.
Frederick Woolverton
#9. For crying out loud, Baker, what rock have you been living under? Oh, yeah, you're from Kansas. He said it as if Kansas were in some remote tribal region inhabited by illiterate natives like the ones in my National Geographic magazines.
Clare Vanderpool
#10. She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
Carson McCullers
#11. He's an artist in London. We don't see him much."
Tom gave him one of his quick, considering glances and asked, "Doesn't he live with you?"
"No," said Indigo, finally saying out loud what he had known now for a long, long time. "Not really. Not anymore.
Hilary McKay
#12. The new technology like iPad and Kindle has been wonderful for me. I can even have the text read out loud while I track along with it. I can highlight parts I need to come back to" - Eddie -
Yvonna Graham
#13. She was never likely to say out loud, "I wish that I could marry a handsome prince," but knowing that if you did you'd probably open the door to find a stunned prince, a tied-up priest, and a Nac Mac Feegle grinning cheerfully and ready to act as best man definitely made you watch what you said.
Terry Pratchett
#14. Cry out loud once. Look at the mirror & shake it off. I've cried like that before & others will have times like that too. Cheer up. You're not alone.
Kim Jong-hyun
#15. Delay of pain: that was the meaning of life, wasn't it?
"I've made some bad decisions," Caine said, not really meaning to say it out loud.
Michael Grant
#16. Here's what I know: I eat mass quantities of red meat, curse religiously, sing out of tune but with conviction. I cry when it suits me, laugh when it's inopportune, read The New York Times obituaries and wedding announcements, out loud and in that order.
Julie Buxbaum
#17. My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
Bill Paxton
#18. I laugh out loud at how wonderful life is that it takes a hell of a knock like that and it's just fine, and I find the steadiness in myself...
Evie Wyld
#19. (Parentheses speak
More than we dare say out loud
Why, oh, why is that?)
Megan McCafferty
#20. On any given day, my daughters would snuggle in bed with my wife and me. We just hug and kiss each other. We laugh out loud and act completely silly. I stop and think to myself, "This is love."
Jacob Vargas
#21. But is it possible to believe in the devil, if one hasn't the slightest belief in God?' Stavrogin laughed out loud.
'Oh yes, entirely possible, that's as common as can be,' Tibon raised his eyes and smiled, too.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. No, Bob. Just no. For crying out loud. She's seventeen.
Better move quick, then, Bob said. Before anything starts to droop. Taste of perfection while you can, that's what I always say.
.....
The perverted little creep has a point, my host.
Jim Butcher
#23. Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.
Simon Sinek
#24. I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
Anne Lamott
#25. When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.
Laozi
#26. Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That's what the dead would tell the living, if they could - to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.
Claudia Gray
#27. People's responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I'm not alone as I try to make sense of my life.
Candy Chang
#28. I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought.
'It's a bore,' he said out loud.
'What is, my dear?'
'Anything you do too bloody long.
Ernest Hemingway,
#29. Maybe loving him out loud would make a difference.
Dannika Dark
#30. I'm not even ready to be fairly bruised," he complained out loud, "I don't want to be killed dead.
Jaime Buckley
#31. laughed out loud. She was being ridiculous. She was obsessing over a boy she hadn't met, so much that she could almost sense what it would feel like for him to push her against the
Kate Forster
#32. Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all kinds of things.
Donna Jo Napoli
#33. My philosophy towards life is to enjoy it to the fullest and have fun. I am one of those 'laugh-out-loud' kinds. I am quirky, yet witty.
Bipasha Basu
#34. Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.
Nicholas Evans
#35. Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.
Jodi Picoult
#36. There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
Katherine Heigl
#37. I keep my back turned while he maneuvers his shorts into place. "Are you decent?" I call after a few seconds. No matter how many times I tell him I can't see into the water yet, he insists I'm just trying to look at his "eel." For crying out loud.
Anna Banks
#38. I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.
Ricky Jay
#39. No. No. No. I couldn't be dead. I hadn't even brushed my teeth, for crying out loud. There
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#40. Clary- "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.
Cassandra Clare
#41. Every time I crash the Internet, it's like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?
Kanye West
#42. We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.
Marty Rubin
#43. What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud.
Alice Hoffman
#44. My 12-year-old daughter said to me, "Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud." Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it.
Martin Amis
#45. A philosopher thinks out loud to make things better for everyone else. Fanatics make themselves louder because they think they are better than everyone else.
Corey Taylor
#46. You can't say your wish out loud. Not when you look up at the stars. If you do, it won't come true. And I can't ... I can't allow that to happen to you. He watched me. I watched him back.
T.J. Klune
#47. I suppose we were heretic,' he thinks out loud, But, Sandro, you're not dead ... '
'There's no time here,' the painter replied, 'Everyone who will ever die is already here.'
'Then Dante really got it wrong.'
'He knows.'
'He's in Hell too?'
'He visits on Sundays.
Emma Iadanza
#48. My eyes darted to her, dreading to see the pain I knew I would find. Please, Melanie, you have to know I only wanted this with you.
I couldn't say the words out loud, but I prayed she would understand, that she could see it in my eyes.
A.L. Jackson
#49. I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.
Melina Marchetta
#50. What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.
Keith David
#51. I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud.
Charlize Theron
#52. I'd never met anyone like him before. Every rule I'd ever learned, he was breaking; everything I'd been taught to hide away, he announced it out loud.
Abigail Haas
#54. I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so that I can hear the poem's rhythm.
James Arthur
#55. I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.
Lorde
#56. Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy ... If I'm regarded as a learned man, it's not because I'm brainy. It's simply because I have such a love for Paul that I have never left off reading him. He has taught me all I know.
Charles W. Freeman Jr.
#57. Now if only I could do something about my neurosis that forces me to narrate my life out loud for everyone to hear, I said, to no one in particular.
Iain S. Thomas
#58. If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.
Ayelet Waldman
#59. Death is a theater, full of everyone you've ever met, watching a real-time replay of your life, with your every thought narrated out loud.
Fran Krause
#60. She's trying to change the subject, even though we weren't speaking out loud.
Colleen Hoover
#61. Ah, what I'd do for a nuclear bomb." "A nuclear what?" my wife asked. Her contortion of fear was clearly outlined. "Did I say that out loud?" I asked, clearly confused.
Mark Tufo
#62. Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme ... If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.
Susan Cain
#63. Oh, for crying out loud, it's because you're so uptight and self-righteous. Somebody said your ass was probably as watertight as a frog, and next thing you know they were calling you Kermit.
Mitty Walters
#64. He told her then how sorry he was for last night, but not out loud.
Daniel Handler
#65. I'm Bertie Byrd. I rent your house since you don't live here anymore." "Did you say Dirty Bird?" He laughed out loud. "Oh, that's a good one, Mr. Fortney. I never heard that one before. A real knee-slapper. Where's the key?
Dolores Wilson
#66. Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
Paulo Coelho
#67. When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.
Tyler Joseph
#68. Yo QT. r u there? I dart Kika a glance. "What does that mean? He called me a Q-tip?" Kika laughs and sits next to me. "Read it out loud. It will make more sense." "Yo-Q-T ru there. Q ... T ... ?" "Q
Anne Eliot
#69. The confessions can touch on every human emotion. They can be laugh-out-loud funny, for sure, they can be heart-breaking, they can be sexual or hidden acts of kindness, they can be romantic ...
Frank Warren
#71. Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.
Sarah Kay
#72. You're beautiful, too. I mean, you're hot," I blurted out. "But I always knew you would be." my eyes widened as I realize what just streamed out of my mouth, and his grin to turn into a smile. "Oh my God, I did not just say ... any of that out loud."
"you did"
"Ugh.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#73. To say it out loud is to give shape to something he had wanted to remain formless.
Stephen Dau
#74. That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.
Veronica Roth
#75. It was a real treat when he'd read me Daisy Miller out loud. But we'd reached the point in our relationship when, in a straight choice between him and Henry James, I'd have taken Henry James any day even if Henry James were dead and not much of a one for the girls when living, either.
Angela Carter
#76. That man is such a damn turd monkey."
"Grandma!" I said.
"Oh, Zoeybird, did I call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey out loud?"
"Yes, Grandma, you did."
She looked at me, her dark eyes sparkling. "Good.
Kristin Cast
#77. Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.
Kevin J. Anderson
#78. Saying it out loud, to someone else, makes it truer somehow. Real. Done.
Abby McDonald
#79. I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out loud to anyone, let alone myself. I am surprised by how dogged I have been in wanting to make a living as a respected actress.
Jessica Raine
#80. You want me, don't you?" he asked, and I nodded. "Say it. Out loud."
Did he just quote Twilight? No matter.
"Ah wah oo." I managed. Not as sexy when you're sucking someone's thumb. But that's okay. This was happening.
Alice Clayton
#81. I wish I would die. I've thought those words many times. But it's a hard thing to say out loud. It's even scarier to feel you might mean it.
Jay Asher
#82. I lit the candles and said out loud, "what am I waiting on? Someone to sell them in a garage sale for a quarter after I die?" And it was beautiful. And the smell was even more incredible than I remembered.
Paula Heller Garland
#83. I have listened
And I have looked
With open eyes.
I have poured my soul
Into the world
Seeking the unknown
Within the known.
And I sing out loud
In amazement.
Rabindranath Tagore
#84. was the time to ask him out, if there ever was one. "What time is it?" I said out loud. Penelope Akk, legendary supervillain and absolute romantic failure.
Richard Roberts
#85. In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.
Will Rogers
#86. Listen to me, he thought. If I were talking out loud, I'd be whining. Derek gets hit and I act like I'm the one getting messed up. It
Gary Paulsen
#87. It's not what we say out loud that determines our lives. It's what we whisper to ourselves that has the most power.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#88. I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
A.M. Homes
#89. For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me, a story is a story when people give me the privilege of listening when I'm speaking it out loud.
Sandra Cisneros
#90. There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.
Vash Young
#91. What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.
Dan Harmon
#92. I always wanted to be an actor. It's something I always secretly wanted. You know, I had the experience of being picked on as a child, and I would tell people, 'You're gonna be sorry when I'm famous!' And then I learned after they kicked the stuffing out me that you don't say that out loud.
DJ Qualls
#93. If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#94. He cocks an eyebrow. "Booksting?" "Yeah. When a hot guy talks books with a girl. It's like sexting, but out loud and with books instead of sex. Nor does it have to do with texts. Okay, so it's nothing like sexting, but it made sense in my head.
Colleen Hoover
#95. Little Miss Sassy Panties is back and I laugh out loud at her. I know she doesn't like it but damn she's fucking comical when she's feisty, but I guarantee, her ass will be paddled and for that sarcasm when the time comes.
Ella Dominguez
#96. There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.
Clive Thompson
#97. I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.
Charlie Trotter
#98. What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners.
Phil Robertson
#99. How do you know you have a cheap Dom?"
Brie rolled her eyes. "Just hit me with it."
"He asks you to take off your collar to walk the dog."
Brie actually laughed out loud.
Red Phoenix
#100. I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening.
Maria Bamford
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