Top 100 Quotes About What They Say
#1. Without words meaning anything, we stop meaning anything. It's getting to the point where nobody means what they say or says what they really mean.
Suzy Kassem
#2. Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.
Jennifer Granholm
#3. M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.
Steven Pinker
#4. Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!
Olympia Dukakis
#5. What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.
Raquel Welch
#7. Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
Barbara Coloroso
#8. What they say doesn't matter because it can be lies, but it's what they do that matters because it always speaks truth.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#9. Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.
Michael Moore
#10. If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!'
Peter Capaldi
#11. Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.
Cesar Romero
#12. Listen to your critics. Because if you go through life denying what they say, you'll never be a good writer. The only way to improve, is to listen to those who tell you what you need to work on
Adam Snowflake
#13. Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!
Kathy Sierra
#14. You know what they say. Family. Can't live with them. Can't kill them, if only because it dulls the ax blade.
Nick Wilgus
#15. You're not going to make me promise you something, because that's what they say in the movies, the person who never comes back.
Karina Halle
#16. Know what they say about abominations," Caldenia said. "We make the worst enemies." "Was that a threat?"" Dagorkun's eyes narrowed. "A warning." Caldenia folded her hands on her lap. "There is only one time to make threats: when you intend to negotiate. I do not.
Ilona Andrews
#17. Wilem snorted."That doesn't sound suspicious at all," he said. "And you wonder why people talk about you."
"I don't wonder why they talk," I said "I wonder what they say.
Patrick Rothfuss
#18. That's what they say," Jun Do said. "But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done." The
Adam Johnson
#20. Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy-and then just listen to what they say.
David Joyner
#21. If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.
Nevil Shute
#22. It's true what they say about red-headed chicks, you know, they all have a wee bit of crazy in them.
Karina Halle
#23. 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
#24. I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.
Ashlee Simpson
#25. What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Margaret Mead
#26. You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'
Sloane Crosley
#27. It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
dancing.
Honore De Balzac
#28. I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say.
Michael Hyatt
#29. We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).
Ayn Rand
#30. Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
Samuel Smiles
#31. You let me believe all this time that I bound myself to you in exchange for getting published and being successful." Kathleen's mouth worked around the bitterness of the words. "You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of ...
Rachel Caine
#32. I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.
Sarah Palin
#33. At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!
Edward Rowland Sill
#34. Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him
C.S. Lewis
#35. Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.
Douglas Coupland
#36. Blood is thicker than water. That's what they say. But in truth, most things are.
Libba Bray
#37. You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.
Poul Anderson
#38. I know sneakers aren't very French-I should be wearing pointy boots or scary heels-but at least they aren't white. It's true what they say about white sneakers. Only American tourists wear them,big ugly things made for mowing grass or painting houses.
Stephanie Perkins
#39. That's because speakers are only credible when what they say is in sync with who they are.
Christopher Witt
#40. Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say. You can calmly say, 'Can I first call my mom and ask if I have to do this, please?
Mindy Kaling
#41. I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
Alex Cox
#42. You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?
Megan Hart
#43. He kept telling and I kept repeating "I Know" sometimes people doesn't need answers, they just need you to hear them what they say, make them that they are heard, Vijay was like that, he doesn't need any one sympathizing to him, he just needed people to listen to him.
Shaikh Ashraf
#44. Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.
Terry Goodkind
#45. Darling, you know what they say. You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince."
I give her a lopsided, bittersweet smile.
"I think I've kissed a prince, Mom. I hope he doesn't turn into a frog.
E.L. James
#46. [Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.
Kevin Spacey
#47. I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.
Neil Gaiman
#48. What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Logan Pearsall Smith
#49. You know what they say, once you go dragon, all the rest is just laggin'."
"No one says that," I said. "Absolutely no one.
T.J. Klune
#50. Justice has its anger, Monsieur Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. No matter what they say, the French Revolution is the greatest advance taken by mankind since the coming of Christ.
Victor Hugo
#51. You know what they say about curiosity and cats. May not kill ya, but it'll get ya inta a heap a trouble around here, too. Though trouble seems ta find you even when you ain't lookin' for it.
Kami Garcia
#52. You know what they say, Two pairs a company, cheese a croud
Annoying Orange
#53. I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.
Mike Bass
#54. If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.
Ariel Gore
#55. You know what they say. One man's joke is another man's brother
Neil Leckman
#56. Disappear where? You know what they say: Curiosity killed the mutant bird kid. But I couldn't help myself.
James Patterson
#57. The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.
William S. Burroughs
#58. We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.
William J. Clinton
#59. The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'
Lorrie Moore
#60. When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
William Gurnall
#61. If someone is brought in for an interview, for example, and is asked about their views on things, but has posted things that are completely contrary to the interview, frankly I have much more faith in what they posted than what they say during the course of an interview.
Adam Schiff
#62. I think so much of the look, obviously including wardrobe, but the hair is a huge thing because it's basically the frame for your eyes and that's the window to your soul is what they say.
Jon Heder
#63. I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I don't want to be described. I don't want you to be able to read something and say, "This is how Wayne is." I'd rather you meet me and decide. I'd rather be different, basically.
Lil' Wayne
#64. Successful selling begins with listening. Your job when you are in front of the prospect is to ask questions and then listen to the answers. Take copious notes about what they tell you; what they say and what they don't say.
Diane Helbig
#65. Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it's not doing enough to listen to what they say when they do.
Lilit Marcus
#66. Most of ideologies are not based on the individual - no matter what they say. There are these peoples' democracies, nationalism - they're all dictatorships. And I think any kind of dictatorship is bad for the individual.
Frank Capra
#67. You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.
Davina Veronica
#68. I read the things that scientists have figured out, and apply what they say is beneficial, but at the end of the day I'm the wrong person to get unchallenged nutritional advice from.
Joe Rogan
#69. I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day
#70. The trouble with market research is that people don't think how they feel, they don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.3
David Lewis
#71. I lied to you and it was easy, because you believe everybody means what they say. Everyone's lying to you, Neverfell. Everyone. And you can't tell, because you're just not very bright when it comes to people. Brighten up fast, or you're done for.
Frances Hardinge
#72. I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
Lillian Gordy Carter
#73. You know, I think what people want more than anything is they just want people to do what they say they're going to do.
Jason Chaffetz
#74. Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion is what they say to callers from polling organizations.
Richard Brookhiser
#75. fairies never say "We feel happy": what they say is, "We feel dancey." Well,
J.M. Barrie
#76. Well, you know what they say. The quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach."
-"Indeed? I thought it was through a hole in his chest." -Jessica Thornton
Kaki Warner
#77. New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.
P. J. O'Rourke
#78. But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.
John Green
#81. In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.
Heidi Klum
#82. When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers and managers. They are the crazy voices in your head, and you need to set them right, not just blindly do what they ask for.
Linus Torvalds
#83. We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
Eric Ries
#84. You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.
Greg Egan
#85. You know what they say about guys with big hands.
Stacy Keibler
#86. But no one knows anything about you, and Washington keeps telling everyone you are what you say you are. That's impossible. No one here is what they say they are.
Pirate Lanford
#87. I looked at [Goering eating sausage] and I knew that what they say was true: that pigs eat the flesh of their own.
Adolf Hitler
#88. Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.
Joyce Meyer
#89. The human spirit, you know what they say about the human spirit? Is is harder than a rock and more delicate than a flower petal.
Nadia Hashimi
#90. I have to ask, because in my experience, women will tell you to do something and then slit your fucking throat when you actually do it. Since you were supposed to know they didn't really want you to do it. That they don't really mean what they say.
Emma Chase
#91. The past is a great darkness, and filled with echos. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.
Margaret Atwood
#92. this is what they say: secure your own mask before helping others.
Neil Gaiman
#93. There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.
Albert Einstein
#94. I'd say for those people who don't feel like they fit in, I'd want them to ask themselves why they want to, who they are trying to please, and whether or not those people are worth it. You know what they say: 'If they don't want you, then they don't deserve to have you.'
Connor Paolo
#95. We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.
Selma James
#96. I guess what they say is true - sometimes you have to smack up against a brick wall before you can admit it's time to change or die. For me the death was an emotional one. It's taken me this long to figure out I was killing myself by shutting off my true feelings and desires.
Claire Thompson
#97. Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.
Mark Polish
#98. You'll often find that people's declared preferences - what they say they want - are far different from their revealed preferences - what they actually do.
Nir Eyal
#99. You know what they say, Queenie: ALWAYS bet like you have a pair.
Elle Lothlorien
#100. Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn't exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.
Brian Michael Bendis
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