Top 100 Say So Quotes
#1. He says,'Why is it love, Esther? Why call it that?'
'Because. Why is what you do art? Because you say so.
Gwendoline Riley
#2. When people ask me if I have worked for the C.I.A., I often answer: what good to you is my answer? Because if I did, I might not say so.
Robert Littell
#3. She took a breath before she said the words she'd been waiting almost nine years to say. 'So what was wrong with me?
Priscilla Glenn
#4. It's not that unusual, death by train. Two to three hundred a year, they say, so at least one every couple of days. I'm not sure how many of those are accidental.
Paula Hawkins
#5. One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.
Linda Cardellini
#6. - Just that. Your family must be very different from mine.
- I'd say so. - I laughed. - For one, no one wears their tiaras to breakfast.
- Maxon smiled. - More of a dinner thing at the Singer house?"
- "Of course.
Kiera Cass
#7. I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.
Alan Sugar
#8. Why?" I say, so quietly that it comes out sounding like a tiny, tired sigh.
"Nobody wants to be mediocre." Her shadow on the ceiling is monstrous, a witch in profile.
Brenna Yovanoff
#9. You ever hear that old joke about the guy who jumped off the Empire State Building?" D.W. asked her. "Yeah. All the way down, you could hear him say, 'So far, so good. So far, so good. So far, so good.' That is George's life story in a nutshell.
Mary Doria Russell
#10. It sure made me feel good to be here today, and have so many people say so many kind things.
Steve Largent
#11. It is an interesting experience to become acquainted with a country through the eyes of the insane, and, if I may say so, a particularly useful grounding for life in Britain.
Bill Bryson
#12. Religion was a riddle to her. Believe this, and only this, because we say so. If you don't you're buying a one-way ticket to everlasting Hell.
J.D. Robb
#13. Sure, Mom.
They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing. They assess your outfit, your hairstyle, and they garble what you say so it comes out ugly.
A.S. King
#14. It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.
Rachel Maddow
#15. Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so.
from the prose poem INNOCENCE
Jay Woodman
#16. I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.
Dr. Seuss
#17. Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so.
Twiggy
#18. So many people say, 'So, what, are you a party girl?' And I say, 'I'm a walking good time.' Do I sometimes go out and drink? Hell, yes. But could I have a number one song if I wasn't also working hard? Maybe that needs a little more respect.
Kesha
#19. You aren't ugly, my dear. Do not listen to anyone who would say so, even yourself.
Amber Jaeger
#20. Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.
Dale Carnegie
#21. Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.
Emily Dickinson
#22. W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why.
J: Oh, yes, it would be so. They think they know, you see. That's always dangerous.
~Wharton; Jessop
Agatha Christie
#23. First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
Jack Kevorkian
#24. Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.
C.S. Lewis
#25. It's the moment when you know that you can have what you want if you're only brave enough to say so. It's a split second when everything can change, but you pussy out because you're too afraid to risk the rejection.
Penelope Douglas
#26. I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented.
Jon Lovitz
#27. There is more than one evolution. There are cosmological, geological, biological and sociological evolutions. The scientists of evolution say so. When I think about man, religion and art, I do not see any of those evolutions.
Alija Izetbegovic
#28. As I say so often, "Observe and wait." Sometimes you may even find out that what you believed the infant wanted was only your assumption. It is natural to make mistakes and easy to misunderstand pre-verbal children. Nevertheless, it is important to keep trying
Magda Gerber
#29. Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.
Tony Judt
#30. I don't have much to say to that. I mean, I have a lot to say, so I don't say anything.
Jasmine Paul
#31. Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!
Clara Schumann
#32. Are you like, a crazy person?
I'm quite sure they will say so.
Alan Moore
#34. You've no more for me than I have for you."
Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: "How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!"
"You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!
Georgette Heyer
#35. I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.
Billy Corgan
#36. You can talk to me, too."
"I do!"
"But you say so little."
"Women talk a great deal to one another. All this gossip and such. I am not a woman."
"What do you do when you have to command your men?" She inquired, exasperated. "Grunt?
Catherine Asaro
#37. WE WERE kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic.
Nescio
#38. Faye, if you got eaten by another shark, would you please at least have the decency to say so? My time is kind of limited, if you know what I'm sayin'.
Elle Lothlorien
#39. but I am prepared to go any distance to see the face of that man who can really make a distinction between the sin and the sinner. It is easy to say so.
Swami Vivekananda
#40. Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.
Haruki Murakami
#41. If I may say so, I added a few touches of my own: you may not have noticed, but some of the waves took the form of great white horses with shining white riders; and there were many rolling and grinding boulders.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#42. It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
Miguel De Unamuno
#44. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'
Cory Booker
#45. If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
Eric Bentley
#46. Besides, dressing like I want to be invisible only makes me feel weak. I have to be strong. So if that means wearing cute boots and nice pants and a sweet blue shirt that looks especially good on me today for some reason if I do say so myself, then so be it.
Robin Brande
#47. Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.
Drew Carey
#48. I like the sun."
"Do you really? I didn't think you'd go in for simple things like sun. You're the neon type, aren't you?"
"If you say so.
Ross Macdonald
#49. No one is ever compelled to / so helpless that they get exploited. One who say so (that they were exploited) are lying.
One always has a choice to walk away!
Honeya
#50. All right," said Spiff. "Now this is what I say, anyone who thinks they've got a better plan can say so afterwards.
Michael De Larrabeiti
#51. I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby.
Barack Obama
#52. We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.
Richard Aldington
#53. Angels can't enter hell unless a demon holds open the door, and demons can't enter heaven without an angel's say-so.
J. Michael Straczynski
#54. While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah (the Untouchables ) or Panchama is sheer nonsense. It is roguish to say so. It is a big hoax played on us
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#55. But, he says again, if God much strong, much might as the Devil, why God no kill the Devil, so make him no more do wicked?
I was strangely surprised at his question, [ ... ] And at first I could not tell what to say, so I pretended not to hear him ...
Daniel Defoe
#56. I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
Peter Eisenman
#57. When the rose's flash to the sunset
Reels to the wrack and the twist,
And the rose is a red bygone,
When the face I love is going
And the gate to the end shall clang,
And it's no use to beckon or say, "So long"
Maybe I'll tell you then
some other time.
Carl Sandburg
#58. And when Aaron called out for him just then, right on time, there was something beautiful about that, too, the way a little kid needed you for everything and wasn't afraid to say so.
Tom Perrotta
#59. Sadb spoke quickly, defensively. "Merry wish me return a message to ye, but ye did not give ye
say-so to do so. So, he wish ye say-so for me to do so on ye say-so. So, I use me mind's eye to ask
ye say-so. Ye say so?" She abruptly fell mute.
C. Kennedy
#60. Indeed he did, and we never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not. Wouldn't you say so, Mr. Streeter?
Stephen King
#61. If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain's son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer," he said crossly, "say so at once and have done!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#62. I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.
Folorunsho Alakija
#63. The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
Rahm Emanuel
#64. What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so.
S.A. Tawks
#65. The Bureau had conducted uncounted break-ins and black-bag jobs on Hoover's say-so. The
Tim Weiner
#66. Looking mighty fine, if I do say so myself: red v-neck, dark denim, designer combat boots, and enough testosterone rolling off me to satisfy Nicki Minaj. Pow!
Victoria Scott
#67. A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.
William Stafford
#68. I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you - what - was there not sad stuff?
George III
#70. My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.
Douglas Alexander
#71. I don't know what to say, so far... there is some evidence which say that "Reincarnation", exist, but is it true?
Deyth Banger
#72. If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.
Chicken John
#73. When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.
Solange Knowles
#74. You are not the first, and will not be the last, to say so. I wear my "warped" label with pride.
Jessica Park
#75. There were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that they, as men, should say so. Our business as women was to recognize this and act accordingly.
Christabel Pankhurst
#76. I'd rather not see their eyes. Eyes can say so much. Theirs say, 'I want to steal your soul so don't turn your back on us.
Kasie West
#77. But I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so
modesty
are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.
Daphne Du Maurier
#78. I had never seen her wearing lipstick, but knew better than to say so in case she did that mysterious alchemy some girls do and transformed the comment into my accusing her of having gained weight.
Helen Oyeyemi
#79. He just never understood how white people could be racist in South Africa. "Africa is full of black people," he would say. "So why would you come all the way to Africa if you hate black people? If you hate black people so much, why did you move into their house?" To him it was insane. Because
Trevor Noah
#80. I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.
Les Dawson
#81. LEONATO
Neighbours, you are tedious.
DOGBERRY
It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in
my heart to bestow it all of your worship.
William Shakespeare
#82. Who isn't frustrated and does not prove it by his actions - if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.
William Carlos Williams
#83. When children say it's time to leave, they mean, "It's time to leave." When grownups say so, they really mean, "It's time to begin thinking about leaving sometime in the near future.
Andrew Peterson
#84. So!' he said, at length, and it came as a complete surprise to me that fellows ever really do say 'So!'. I had always thought it was just a thing you read in books.
P.G. Wodehouse
#86. Burning up the phone until there's nothing left to say, so I lay here and just listen to you breathe. Girl you know it's only been a week since our first date-back when you were just a stranger to me. I've never let another in so soon.
Toby Keith
#87. President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that
Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore.
Jay Leno
#88. Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?
George III
#89. I thought he was kind of a dick too, but I didn't say so. You're not supposed to join in when someone is bashing his father.
Jenny Han
#90. All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#91. And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.
Angelina Jolie
#92. Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.
Peggy Noonan
#93. I needed him to know how I felt so I just kissed him as long as he would let me. I used to think talking was all about words. But you can say so much more with your eyes and your fingers and your touch. Words just make us one-dimensional.
Katie Kacvinsky
#94. She didn't say so, but it suddenly occurred to her that good sex was not knowledge. It was barely information.
Toni Morrison
#95. Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so!
David Brin
#96. I'm not your bitch, Phobos. You didn't drag me out of the pound to put a collar on me. Don't expect me to heel because you say so. You are on my turf now. Think about it. (ZT)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#97. The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.
Dick Morris
#98. So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"
"I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.
Suzanne Collins
#99. If the international community is not ready to defend the principles which it itself has proclaimed as its foundations, let it say so openly, both to the people of Bosnia and to the people of the world. Let it proclaim a new code of behavior in which force will be the first and the last argument.
Alija Izetbegovic
#100. She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.
Edith Wharton
