Say What Quotes

#1. Yes, man is mortal, but that would still be just a minor problem. The bad thing is that he's sometimes suddenly mortal, and that's the whole point! And he can't possibly say what he's going to be doing the same evening.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#2. If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

Pope Francis

#3. Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.

Amy Chua

#4. To remember nothing," they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?

Stefan Merrill Block

#5. Say - what is dead cats good for, Huck?" "Good for? Cure warts with.

Mark Twain

#6. FerryRat7734: What's vertical?
SnakePlissken: You could just say,What's up?

Michael Grant

#7. We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

Bill Maher

#8. I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously planned. It was planned like NASA planned its trips to the moon. It made me feel like some sort of horrible dilettante.

Guy Maddin

#9. Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#10. I think the idea is to try and understand everything about the characters and where the character is coming from, from their point of view, why they say what they do. And not, 'Oh, but I would never say that. Why does the character say that?' But then making it as personal as possible.

Paul Dano

#11. It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

David Duchovny

#12. I would say what makes me vulnerable is when I allow my mind to spiral. You know? When I start not being in the present moment and I start skipping ahead and picturing my daughter driving on the freeway on a late saturday night.

Lauren Bowles

#13. Never mind what I say, Robert! I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

#14. A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love ...

Leonard Cohen

#15. Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain.

Rick James

#16. It's awkward and silent as I wait for you to say, what I need to hear now, your sincere apology. When you mean it, I'll believe it, if you text it I'll delete, let's be clear. Oh, I'm not coming back, you're taking 7 steps here ...

Miley Cyrus

#17. The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.

Jeanette Michelle

#18. It's really liberating and fun to be writing stuff for myself, and really have the freedom to say what I want to say and not really have to think about what somebody else is going to say or have to edit myself to speak from someone else's vision.

Bonnie McKee

#19. People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

Eudora Welty

#20. I didn't enjoy 'Topographic Oceans' at all. It was a double album, and the truth is it was padded out, and I didn't like that. But I was a fan of Yes - still am - and as such, I'm entitled to say what I think.

Rick Wakeman

#21. I didn't know what to say. What to do. I didn't feel strong anymore. I felt like I couldn't go on without him. He loved me fiercely. Obsessively. Rivalled only by the intensity which I felt for him. So why couldn't we be together?

A. Zavarelli

#22. It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

John Bright

#23. When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

Billy Wilder

#24. You just have to dream. You have to dream until your knuckles are bloody from fighting for it and white from holding on to it. It doesn't matter what other people think or say-- what matters is your dream.

Lynn Titus

#25. The first stage in understanding the Scriptures is to learn what a writer intended to say, what he meant for the people of his day.

Francis John McConnell

#26. Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Sam Kinison

#27. Sometimes you don't need words to say what's in your heart.

Ruth Ozeki

#28. Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

Sarah Dessen

#29. "Who are we to say what is right and what is wrong?" is the common refrain under the doctrine of pure pluralism. Clearly, society cannot long survive if this principle is pushed to its logical conclusion and everyone is free to write his own laws.

Benjamin Hart

#30. Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, 'What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line - we couldn't have kids?'

David Alpay

#31. Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

Dave Chappelle

#32. People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

Hector Hugh Munro

#33. It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for the last month of their life. I shake them, physically shake them, and say, "What about now? What about now?"

Patch Adams

#34. People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

Jean-Luc Godard

#35. Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?

Tom Cruise

#36. Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.

Randall Jarrell

#37. It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.

Ruggiero Ricci

#38. A lot of producers always say "what direction are you going in?" and I don't know. I'm just doing music. Right now it's going well. It's a little slow, but it's expected because I haven't been in the studio for a minute.

Ginuwine

#39. There are those who make things happen, there are those who watch things happen and there are those who say 'what happened?

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#40. One day the Singularity would elevate humans to cybernetic superbeings, and maybe then people would say what they meant.
Probably not, though.

Charlie Jane Anders

#41. But all of us, in some way, reflect an image of God-of who He is. So who's to say what's right or what's wrong about how we look?
-Twila

Ginny L. Yttrup

#42. When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#43. People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.

R.L. Stine

#44. I have a strong personality, and I say what I think.

Penelope Cruz

#45. And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written enough so that you are relaxed and can allow the truth to get out without being ruined by self-conscious posturings or changed by a desire to become rich?

Ray Bradbury

#46. Run, run, far away from him or her, and say what President Bartlet once said on The West Wing: "Stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it." White

Phoebe Robinson

#47. When you're young, you say what you feel.
When you're adult, you speak what you think.
When you grow old, you listen to what nature says.

Toba Beta

#48. And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

Bill Sienkiewicz

#49. Say what you want about fairies, but you haven't rocked out until you've heard Smoke on the Water played on a harpsichord. ~Harlow

Red Tash

#50. Bay nodded. "I guess he's not going to know if I don't really say what's on my mind." Mel's eyes danced with laughter. "I think that's the thing with most men and women. They need to be told.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#51. We can't say what God is, and until the modern period, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians in the three God religions all knew that. They insisted that we have no idea what we meant when we said that God was good, or wise, or intelligent.

Karen Armstrong

#52. Nevertheless I must say what I was told. It was excavated to the depth of a hundred feet, and its breadth was a stadium everywhere; it was carried round the whole of the plain, and was ten thousand stadia in length.

Plato

#53. I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.

Mitch Hedberg

#54. There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

Winston Churchill

#55. Beyonce is my role model. You know how people say, 'What would Jesus do?' I always say, 'What would Beyonce do? In her career, what decisions would she make?' And I really think it helps me guide my career and be really nice to every fan and every person that I work with.

Todrick Hall

#56. I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

Marianne Faithfull

#57. I could care less about ever having a No. 1 single. I would just like to be able to play and have people who grow old with you, and you stay with them through their life. We've got a few sentences, maybe, to say what life's about. Hopefully, we'll get a chapter later.

Brian Fallon

#58. If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

John Banville

#59. Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. That's the reason they call what us sing the devil's music. Devils love to fuck.

Alice Walker

#60. When people say "What do you want people to get from this movie?" I say, "Well, it depends on what they bring to it." I don't try to decide what people should get from it or why. I don't do a part for those kinds of reasons.

Denzel Washington

#61. It may ... be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

Mary Shelley

#62. [T]his is how it will remain until ... literary criticism discards its sociological, religious, philosophical and other textbooks, which only help mediocrity to admire itself. Only then will you be free to say what you please. [F]or God's sake stop that irrelevant chitchat.

Vladimir Nabokov

#63. If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#64. Yes, urge I do: warped chrysalis of what blind perfect seed: for who shall say what gnarled forgotten root might not bloom yet with some globed concentrate more globed and concentrate and heady-perfect because the neglected root was planted warped and lay not dead but merely slept forgot?

William Faulkner

#65. I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

Bill Ackman

#66. Say what you think; think what you mean.

Yusuf Islam

#67. Why did you love her?'
'Well,' I say, 'what a question, anyway!'
How on earth can you say why you love people? You might as well say you know where the lightning is going to strike.

Jean Rhys

#68. My philosophy in all my jobs at McDonald's is to be honest and say what I think and mean what I say.

Charlie Bell

#69. -I hate that. I hate that people can't just say what they mean.
-You don't. Not always.
-I never say anything I don't mean. I just avoid saying some things that I do.

Doug Dorst

#70. I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more ...

Dante Alighieri

#71. Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

Richard Russo

#72. The only times you say what I'm thinking, it's without any of the sarcasm and therefore the exact opposite of what I mean.

Brian Clevinger

#73. You make a pact with life and death: so many years as a king, and then...Say what you will, dirty money spends as green as clean.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#74. I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

Allen Sapp

#75. I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.

Rachael Taylor

#76. Notice I did not say what people can do
what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

Max DePree

#77. Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.

Alan Shearer

#78. It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Tony Campolo

#79. Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#80. I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Nas

#81. I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

Karl Pilkington

#82. I'm just going ahead and say what everyone else here is thinking.
This has got to be the weirdest fucking wedding that has ever happened.

Jessica Gadziala

#83. There are always suicides," Garp wrote, "among people who are unable to say what they mean".

John Irving

#84. A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#85. At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

Tyga

#86. I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

Billy Bragg

#87. But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.

Roone Arledge

#88. Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something when it's getting dark. We ought to have a closing scene.

Leif Enger

#89. Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

Elliott Smith

#90. I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.

Steve Forbes

#91. I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

Larry King

#92. She glanced down at the contents of her plate. Just tell him what it is. Simple. Look at it and say what it is. "Sloppy Joe," she managed.
"Hmm," he said, sounding doubtful. "May he rest in peace.

Kelly Creagh

#93. Here inside, everyone can say what they like, do what they want, without being criticized. After all, they're in a mental hospital.

Paulo Coelho

#94. Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.

Charles Saatchi

#95. There is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in 'The Holocaust Industry' without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I am labelled a Holocaust denier, too.

Norman Finkelstein

#96. Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?"

Dennis Wholey

#97. Say what you will about seeing the bright side in every situation, but sometimes there is no bright side. Sometimes the only thing to see is darkness for miles and miles with no way to find even a single glimmer of light.

Amy Matayo

#98. The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.

Frederick Lenz

#99. You don't always have to say what's on your mind. You can keep it to yourself for the time being. That's called patience.

Art Hochberg

#100. All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?

Max Lucado