Say It Quotes

#1. I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

Alain De Botton

#2. People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

Isaac Mizrahi

#3. I know," I say. "It sucks. Let's go get tacos and sit on the beach.

Nina LaCour

#4. My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take the audience with me. To make them feel for me, or to make them hate me, I want a reaction. I want their emotions. The worst reaction someone can have is, "eh."

Adelaide Kane

#5. I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up with a lot of lyrics by writing down loads and loads of random sentences and streams, and I find meaning in that music, even though he'd probably say it's absolute gibberish.

Jay Watson

#6. If I were honest, I'd say it only sort of gets better. That there's always this part of you that got carved out. It's a physical thing, I swear to God, and it's the part that swells right before you cry. Eventually you stop hoping and start to fill it up with memories.

Kathleen Hale

#7. If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

Michael Lewis

#8. I think improvisation is a technique and a tool. I think that even the best of them fail most of the time, and in the end, the audience is not interested in how you got there but in what you're saying. The more clearly and concisely and artistically you say it, the more effective it is.

Bernard Sahlins

#9. I don't have any pictures of the lovely Aboriginal people I met because they think it traps their spirit, and if they're correct then Facebook is basically creating a living hell. Which is really not that surprising, now that I say it out loud.

Jenny Lawson

#10. The woman looked up at Lift. "He's right about that, um..."
"Say it," Lift said.
"Your Pancakefulness."
"Rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?

Brandon Sanderson

#11. Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet ... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.

Octavio Paz

#12. Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

Zoe Saldana

#13. If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

Nathan Sawaya

#14. But like they say, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years. And I sure as hell was going to make my life count.

Jay McLean

#15. You have to feel you're the best at what you do. You don't have to come out and say it. But you have to know it within yourself.

Dan Marino

#16. I want you to say it, so I know you'll never forget. I want to hear you say my name.

Leslea Tash

#17. What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?

Massasoit

#18. I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

Al Jourgensen

#19. We shoulder it so these people don't have to know it too. And I know this because that's what you say. And when you say it, I believe you. And when I believe you, I'll follow you anywhere.

A.C. Gaughen

#20. That's the thing about giving advice, she could say. It might come back to haunt you.

Jennifer Close

#21. There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it's okay.

Tom Sturridge

#22. I love you.'
'I love you too.'
She never misses an opportunity to say it. You never know when you can run out of chances.

Cheryl McIntyre

#23. I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby ...

Jimmy Wales

#24. I'll say it again, for every moment you're with the wrong person, you are robbing yourself and the right person of the opportunity to find real happiness.

Ingrid Weir

#25. You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today's the day. Say it: this is going to be my day.

Brendon Burchard

#26. Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#27. I guess we can start at the end but it's really the middle. Let's just call it the really bad part. My second wife, Mishna, brought it to my attention that I had an anger problem. She didn't say it like that. What she said was, "I'm leaving." Then she took her vagina and left.

Marc Maron

#28. Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

Margaret Atwood

#29. It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.

Richard Kadrey

#30. I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

Barbara Park

#31. Don't say it, Lay. Don't. Because I'm not stopping this. I need to be inside you more than I need to breathe right now. But if we can't do that, if this is all we have ... I'm taking it. I'm taking every last bit of you you're willing to give.

T. Torrest

#32. Why is it that we can better bear to part in spirit than in body, and while we have the fortitude to act farewell, have not the nerve to say it?

Charles Dickens

#33. If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

Maya Angelou

#34. I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things ... One wants to open the story, not close it.

Anish Kapoor

#35. I knew that sometimes when people spoke, it wasn't because they had something important to say. It was because they had a powerful need for someone to listen.

Jodi Picoult

#36. I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.

Tony Abbott

#37. The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.

P.T. Barnum

#38. I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.

Caitlin Moran

#39. I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.

Monica Lewinsky

#40. Do everything you're told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, 'It's not so bad.' Say 'You are almost there!' And say it a lot.

Madonna Ciccone

#41. When you love someone, it seeps out of everything you do, it bleeds into everything you say, it becomes so ever-present, that eventually it becomes ordinary to hear, no matter how extraordinary it is to feel.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#42. We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

Eric Hoffer

#43. You have to be able to appreciate these things. How many people can say it was a full moon last night and appreciate it?

Sandy Miller

#44. Chicken is chicken no matter how you say it.

Eduardo

#45. I was in a lot of pain, you see. But it had been caused by an abstract blade. What I mean is, the pain was physical, the cause wasn't. I suppose some people would just say I was suffering from a broken heart. Or you might say it's just life.

Anonymous

#46. So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it

Jason Najum

#47. I said, "Mr. President, if there are policies of yours with which I disagree, they will be addressed. From time to time you may not like what I say, or how or where I say it. I hope we can work through our differences when those occasions arise." Nixon

Vernon Jordan

#48. You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn't you say it's okay to steal a loaf to feed them?

A.J. Darkholme

#49. Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

Elton Trueblood

#50. I promise you won't regret it. I promise to make you feel things and enjoy things you never even thought of before. I'll make every night the best night of your life until you say it's over.

M. Leighton

#51. Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it ... and even more to live it.

Criss Jami

#52. It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

Randy Harrison

#53. My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes.

Tom Verlaine

#54. Many people don't think that the poor in the developing world can do work on a computer. They won't say it explicitly. But they think it's too sophisticated.

Leila Janah

#55. If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this!

James Joseph Sylvester

#56. There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

Mario Balotelli

#57. For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.

Kathy Baker

#58. Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.

Markus Zusak

#59. People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.

Gordie Howe

#60. I am firmly of the opinion that people who can't speak have nothing to say. It's one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues ... allow them a language as lousy as their life

William H Gass

#61. Vati, Vati, I miss you so. She didn't say it aloud, but her throat vibrated with the words.

Beatriz Williams

#62. And did you have to hack his arms off?" "Yes, I did. He wouldn't go through the door."
"You say it like you're proud of it."
I was proud of it. It was an example of quick thinking in a difficult situation.

Ilona Andrews

#63. My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde

#64. They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Diana Princess Of Wales

#65. The artist must say it without saying it.

Duke Ellington

#66. The roots of Theodism are hard to trace. Leave it to say, it has roots in both Wicca and Germanic Heathenry. Garman began his path towards Theodish Belief as a Wiccan, studying in the Gardnerian tradition.

Swain Wodening

#67. What's ka?" Eddie's voice was truculent. "I never heard of it. Except if you say it twice you come out with the baby word for shit.

Stephen King

#68. I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, 'it is not true,' then that 'it is contrary to religion,' and lastly, 'that everybody knew it before.

Charles Lyell

#69. You always maintained that he was a good father, but I always told you and I'll say it again today, so what if he was a good father? How does that redeem him if he was a bad husband?

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#70. She won't know it if I'm not say it. Say that 3 times, and you should know what's the main problem.

Olivia Sinaga

#71. Say it over and over until you believe it, and only then shall you become it.

Hal Elrod

#72. It doesn't matter what others think or say it just matters what you do

Jasmine Lozano

#73. When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.

Zelig Pliskin

#74. One of the many questions that have often bothered me is why women have been, and still are, thought to be so inferior to men. It's easy to say it's unfair, but that's not enough for me; I'd really like to know the reason for this great injustice!

Anne Frank

#75. I do films to be behind the camera, not in front of the camera. I'm sure I say very intimate things about myself in all my films, but it's better to say it not too directly, to be hidden behind a woman.

Francois Ozon

#76. I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

Albert Camus

#77. You know, it's a funny thing. The only Romance language Felipe doesn't happen to speak is Italian. But I go ahead and say it to him anyway, just as we're about to jump.
I say: 'Attraversiamo.'
Let's cross over.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#78. Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.'

Criss Jami

#79. Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

Dejan Stojanovic

#80. I would say it was nice to meet you, but I was naked so ... it wasn't.

Samantha Young

#81. Where there is lack of faith, There is a lack of respect. Employ reticence, and care with words. When the work is done and the task complete The people will say: 'It just happened.

Lao-Tzu

#82. And when I say it, they get alarmed ...
'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.

Chuck D

#83. They stand and say it is their right to say things that injure children who have learned to hate themselves.

George Hodgman

#84. You're too clever to be a soldier." Then she shook her head. "Don't say it. I know. We need our soldiers to be clever. I do know."
"Thank you," he murmured. "You can do all of the conversation. Make it easier for me.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#85. You're mine," he breathed against my neck when his lips left mine to travel lower. "Forever. Say it." "I'm yours," I swore, the words ragged from passion. "Forever. Now, take me and prove it.

Jeaniene Frost

#86. Sometimes i want to say it. and there is nothing in english. that will say it.

Nayyirah Waheed

#87. What are you say it out loud tell me the basic thing vampires eat

Stephenie Meyer

#88. I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beauty in the Christian God while Davy was worshipping God. There may be danger in the love of beauty, though it seems treason to say it. Perhaps it can be a snare.

Sheldon Vanauken

#89. Truth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me: you say it wearies you; But how I got it
came by it.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#90. I was promising myself strength.

I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.

Aspen Matis

#91. Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight.

Susanna Moore

#92. Mama always used to say it's better to choke on a bitter truth than savor a honeycake lie.

C.L. Wilson

#93. You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

Swami Vivekananda

#94. TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS ... guess Elvis use to say it alot and had necklaces made with initials TCB

Elvis Presley

#95. The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

James M. Barrie

#96. The reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot. Thus, one of the great sins, perhaps the great sin, is to say: It will heal; it has healed; there is no wound. There is nothing more important than this wound.

Whittaker Chambers

#97. In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'

Phil Collins

#98. In early October 2008, after the U.S. government had stepped in to say it would, in effect, absorb all the losses in the financial system and prevent any big Wall Street firm from failing, Burry had started to buy stocks with enthusiasm, for the first time in years.

Michael Lewis

#99. Say it, Felicity. Say it proudly."
"I'm yours, Theo. Only yours.

J.J. McAvoy

#100. Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Bertrand Russell