Top 100 Say Things Quotes
#1. I'm very prescriptive about who I work with. I'm very clear about what I believe. If they believe what I believe I will work with them. If they say things like, "Convince me we should do this." I walk away.
Simon Sinek
#2. They'd say things like "Good show!" or "Ho-lo, mommy-crack-a-whip!" or "Boozie!" or "Indibnibly fine shot!
Andrew Peterson
#3. This, she thought, was what love and desperation made you do: say things that were better left unsaid, give yourself away in a million little gestures, a thousand little changes of expression.
Cathy Williams
#4. He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.
Peter Heather
#5. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact.
Joe Abercrombie
#6. People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
Boy George
#7. Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.
Dodie Smith
#8. During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun
setting in the distance, it was
somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless of what was said, we just
kept moving toward that
horizon.
Sarah Dessen
#9. I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.
Bjorn Lomborg
#10. People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
Dashiell Hammett
#11. When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'
Reed Hastings
#12. My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.
T.D. Jakes
#13. In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death, people would talk. They would say 'things' about him and he wouldn't be there to defend himself.
Jennifer Grant
#14. Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.
Megan Fox
#15. People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in class without people calling them a lesbian. Thats so amazing that I can make someone feel like that.
Lorde
#16. His memories were too sad, his hopes too thin. To have to say things on paper seemed a terrible task, for it stirred the memories.
Larry McMurtry
#17. The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.
Vincent De Paul
#18. And the people who say things to you about the way you look and the way you dress, they have nothing more to their lives. That's all they do, and you have something more in you.
Andy Biersack
#19. Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.
Rachael Leigh Cook
#20. I get a lot of letters from prisoners. They say things you can't imagine.
Lela Rochon
#21. There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.
Tony Hale
#22. What's wrong with Shakespeare?" I{Jerry} inquired in interest.
" Twisting himself up to say things in such a difficult way that you can't get at what he means. Still, I like some Shakespeare.
Agatha Christie
#23. When shopping at Dunkin' Donuts, pretend you are the mother of nine. Say things like, 'Little David likes cream-filled and Susie wanted jelly.' That way, no one will be suspicious when you order a dozen donuts with one cup of coffee to go.
Linda Sunshine
#24. It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth
whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.
Galileo Galilei
#25. It is not how you dress, where you sit or how you speak that makes you professional?. It is how you say things, what you achieve, how you do things That makes you a true professional?.
Sameh Elsayed
#26. I guess my tendency to say things as they are, without filtering, puts girls off. If you ask me how you look, and I think your dress makes your arse look fat, I'll tell you.
R.J. Prescott
#28. I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]
Sienna Miller
#29. For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet."
"How do you do that?'
"Do what?"
"Say things like that. That's beautiful."
"I've spent years studying poetry, Mrs. Emerson. It's in my DNA.
Sylvain Reynard
#30. Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
Umberto Eco
#31. I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.
Helena Bonham Carter
#32. You have to follow where the poem leads. And it will surprise you. It will say things you didn't expect to say. And you look at the poem and you realize, 'That is truly what I felt.' That is truly what I saw.
Philip Levine
#33. It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful.
Richard Flanagan
#34. I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
Taylor Swift
#35. These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world from ending. Or at least they can change the inner world of a reader and that is a sacred power.
Martine Leavitt
#36. He would say things like, "But you are my wife!" when I didn't do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.
Brenda Perlin
#37. When the older folks I interviewed described the reasons that they dated, got engaged to, and then married their eventual spouses, they'd say things like "He seemed like a pretty good guy," "She was a nice girl;" "He had a good job," and "She had access to doughnuts and I like doughnuts.
Aziz Ansari
#38. It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things like: 'Kane, Prom?' We have a fun, young team, and girls are asking you to the prom and giving you their numbers.
Patrick Kane
#39. You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.
Brian O'Driscoll
#40. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.
Fredrik Backman
#41. I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of.
Umberto Eco
#42. I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
Patrice O'Neal
#43. I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
Barry Humphries
#44. What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who's not supposed to say things like that?
S.A. Tawks
#45. Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.
Timothy Keller
#46. I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.
Patrick Rothfuss
#47. I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.
Benny Green
#48. Am I four years old? All I do is cry and say things are stupid.
I'm stupid.
Hannah Moskowitz
#49. As human beings, we make mistakes, oh so many mistakes. We are emotional-we do and say things we do not mean, and sometimes we fall, but the people who love us will always pick us up again.
Emily Gillmor Murphy
#50. And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.
Mats Sundin
#51. It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
#52. Artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
Alan Alda
#53. Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.
Terry Pratchett
#54. We all say things when we are trying to get elected.
Christy Clark
#55. I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.
Gillian Flynn
#56. In life, we always fall for the person who will never fall for us, always want things we can't have, and say things we shouldn't.
Zayn Malik
#57. God, he was intense. And deliberate. And he could say things with his eyes that made my knees tremble.
Leylah Attar
#58. Will never understand why the Internet seems to take away the basic humanity of most people, and allows - no, enables - them to say things that they'd never say to another person face to face.
Wil Wheaton
#59. People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.
Terry Pratchett
#60. I knew what he was saying, and I wished to God he was someone else, someone who didn't have to say things out loud.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#61. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.
Terry Pratchett
#62. Mason knew what it was like to say things you didn't mean, to just have them vomit out, and then feel that crushing ache when you realized you could never pull them back.
Dan Krokos
#63. There are harsher things I could say, things I've compiled and archived, each with a catalog card.
Erika Swyler
#64. My mother, Yolanda, was a little girl who never grew up, and sometimes we would laugh, and I would say things like, 'Okay, so now it looks like I am your mother and you are my daughter,' to which she would reply, 'Well, yes. Handle it and pamper me.'
Thalia
#65. There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.
Doug Stanhope
#66. And the truth is, sometimes my sisters and I do get jealous, and sometimes we do say things to-and about-one another that are thoughtless and rude. We don't meant them, though. It's just whenever we're together, we slip into our old familiar roles.
Jillian Medoff
#67. I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.
Brian McKnight
#69. I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.
Chris Evert
#70. People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I want them to have that. It limits people's ability to understand something if I say it's "about this." That's happened to us a bunch on this.
Charlie Kaufman
#71. I'm not dead. I sleep sometimes. Sleep comes very close to death, everyone knows that. The dead walk in dreams, everyone knows that. They come to you alive, and they say things. They walk out of death into the dreams.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#72. I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
Pablo Casals
#73. I wanted to say things that were natural coming from me.
Rita Rudner
#74. I'm destined to live and say things.
Snoop Dogg
#75. You say things that make my eyes close and I find that marvelous.
Edith Piaf
#76. Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.
Don Rickles
#77. If somebody said something racist around me, or you, or most people, you would correct it, you would stop it, but when they say things about women, so frequently no one says anything. That has to change.
Rose McGowan
#78. Your lips are so cute when you say things that mean nothing to me.
Karen Akins
#79. He shouldn't say things like that in front of the artworks, especially when they're angry, but he always does.
Donna K. Fitch
#81. I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.
Eminem
#82. I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.
Ed O'Neill
#83. If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.
Nellie McKay
#84. I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.
Bode Miller
#85. Comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny.
Staton Rabin
#86. I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.
Ann Coulter
#88. I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but ... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
Ian MacKaye
#89. Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
Joe Queenan
#90. Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'
Joel Osteen
#91. They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.
Shaquille O'Neal
#92. I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.
Randy Houser
#93. I think probably anyone would say, the worst and the hardest things to deal with is when people say things that aren't true. Or that are kind of true but exaggerated.
Carmen Electra
#94. I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
Marilyn Manson
#95. Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
Barrett Foa
#96. You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.
Justin Timberlake
#97. There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.
Jimmy Wales
#98. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush.
Howard Dean
#99. Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#100. I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.
A.M. Homes
