Top 100 They Say You Quotes
#1. They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself ...
Ruth Rendell
#2. Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take time to retreat to that quiet place within the pit of your soul and unleash your right to decide what is best for you.
Iyanla Vanzant
#3. They say you can't read the next chapter of your life, if you keep re reading the last one. But then every car has a rear-view mirror.
Anonymous
#4. They say you're nobody til somebody kills you
But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody
Lil' Wayne
#5. In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.
Bikram Choudhury
#6. I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager ...
Larry Wall
#7. They say you're only as old as you feel but try telling that to a ninety-year-old on their deathbed, just wishing he could do all the bloody things he wants to do.
Karina Halle
#8. When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.
George Clooney
#9. I know they say you shouldn't take candy from strangers, but it's a cookie and not candy and technically, I'm not a stranger.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#10. My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
Vinnie Jones
#11. I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
Adam Baldwin
#12. They say you can wish on the stars, and if you run out of stars, wishing on a rainbow is the next best thing.
Susan Pogorzelski
#13. They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.
Fred Larson
#14. Hey you know what they say you should do when life gives you lemons?"
The sudden change in topic made my head spin, "Make lemonade?" I answered weakly.
"Lemonade? Who the fuck do you hang out with, Girl Scouts? No, when life gives you lemons, you add vodka and make a lemon drop.
Cardeno C.
#15. The best way to beat somebody is to show them who you are, and to succeed by doin' what they say you can't.
Tamera Alexander
#16. They say you were something in those formative years.
Tori Amos
#17. In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No no, no no, you don't ban it ... you don't buy it.
Ian Hislop
#18. They say you can see all the beauty in the world in the way a hanged man swings.
Joe Abercrombie
#19. They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around.
Susan RoAne
#20. They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven. They're right.
Steven Wright
#21. It's true what they say, you know. First fuck. First love. First kill. You never forget your first.
Nenia Campbell
#22. If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose.
Terry Brennan
#23. Don't let your history hinder you from your destiny ... you are only held back by yourself! You aren't what they say you were, you are who God says you are!!
Paula White
#24. I was trained in the Society of the Inner Light. Now that requires that you spend a certain amount of time in meditation, it also requires that you spend this time in early morning, because they say you're closer to the sleep state at that point.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
#25. It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.
Cilla Black
#26. They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.
Bill Burr
#27. They say you can't escape your past, but I don't believe that. I believe you escape it every day, over and over again, always cognizant of the difference between past and present
Susan Richards
#28. They say you can't judge a book by its cover. I've learned that you can't judge a man by the one before him, either.
Adriana Locke
#29. I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
Banksy
#30. We all are bound to those around us by glue, and to our pasts, and sometimes we need to dissolve it... They say you need to pull all the pieces apart and stand back to see how they fit together. Deconstruction. But what if then they can't be put back together?
Amanda Green
#31. I believe in hiring people to do their jobs.I want to hire an editor.They say you make a movie three times: when you write it, when you direct it, and when you edit it. So I have three shots to get it right!
Nate Parker
#32. Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank?
Patty Hearst
#33. People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.
Jessica Ennis
#34. We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.
Murray Horwitz
#35. ..they say you can't really be in love with someone unless they love you too, don't they?
Anthony Capella
#36. They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there ...
Lindsay Armstrong
#37. They say you can't remember pain - the fact of it, yes, but the truth of it, the physical texture of agony? Gone and forgotten. Which makes it easy to forget that pain hurts, that the wounded life isn't always worth living.
John Joseph Adams
#38. Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.
Frank Robinson
#39. They say you're big before you're small I'm sure glad I don't know it all.
Sara Quin
#40. Sometimes I go, "What am I doing with my life?" But then I get letters from young women, or people come up to me, and they say, "You've made such a difference to my confidence." And that is a good thing. I should read more fan mail though. I'm crap at responding.
Helena Bonham Carter
#41. They say you can't build Rome in a day, but I'm pretty sure you could destroy it in even less.
Kris Kidd
#42. I leave love notes all around the house. They're on your pillow, in the fridge, in your sock drawer, but you don't see them. They say I love you. They say You can love me without fear.
Richard Jay Goldstein
#43. Divorced?'
'Separated.'
He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' ("Novelty")
John Crowley
#44. They say you can put lipstick on a pig and it's still a pig. The same holds true for a dead body. Put lipstick on a corpse and you've played dress-up with a corpse.
Caitlin Doughty
#45. 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
#46. They say you fall in love only once but every time I see her I fall in love with her all over again and again.
Mayank Kashyap
#47. They say you should treat your body like a temple. I treat mine like a fast-moving dumpster.
Matthew Inman
#48. I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.
Robert Wyatt
#49. I'm 28 now and they say you peak at 28 - so my best years are still ahead of me.
Kieron Dyer
#50. 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
#51. 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
#53. It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. It only matters if you say you can't.
Harvey MacKay
#54. They say you don't grow up until you lose your parents. Frankly, I'd prefer to be immature.
Jonathan Kellerman
#55. Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.
C.S. Lewis
#56. Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
Margaret Atwood
#57. I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
Howard Nemerov
#58. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.
Margaret Atwood
#59. Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead - or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#60. My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#62. It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.
William Stafford
#63. I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers
#64. They say you're meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I've always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?
Amy Jenkins
#65. You know how they say you can never go home again?
Yeah.
They're full of it. The truth is, you can never leave home. Not completely.
Jay Bell
#66. Is that what you are doing? Enduring? Surely an engaged woman should be happier." His light eyes raked her. "A heart divided against itself cannot stand, as they say. You love them both, and it tears you apart.
Cassandra Clare
#67. When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.
Brad Paisley
#68. Yeah, well, when they say 'You know it's a long way, don't you?' what they really mean is: 'You know it'd be faster if you just rode a kangaroo, don't you?
Elle Lothlorien
#69. They say you waste time asleep, but I'm just trying to dream.
Mac Miller
#70. They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.
Harry Reid
#71. They say you can do anything with plastique except play with sparks, but I still treat things that can blow you apart with respect. It can't hurt.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#72. In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information, and they say, 'You need to do something.' So you do need the breath of scepticism, not cynicism, breathing on them.
David Blunkett
#73. We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.
Shimon Peres
#74. They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.
Rico Carty
#75. Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.
Damon Lindelof
#76. If they say you are good, you have to follow their rules to remain good.
Osho
#77. Because no matter what they say, you always have a choice. You just don't always have the guts to make it.
Ray N. Kuili
#78. Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.
Richie Norton
#79. They say you thatched your roof and now you must not run out of your house if it rains.
Barbara Kingsolver
#80. I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.
Jason Day
#81. People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.
James Baldwin
#82. I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.
Edwin Morgan
#83. It's true what they say, you know: if you talk to God, you're religious; but if you hear from God, yor're schizophrenic.
Tim Downs
#84. Even if they say you are rebellious, criminal, bad, evil, let them think it. Even if they put you on the cross let them do it, but you remain true to yourself.
Osho
#85. Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything exactly as they say. You have to do what feels right.
Jennifer Tilly
#86. I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!
Kelly Ripa
#87. They say you should never eat before you go to bed, but I've found just having a tiny little snack - like half an apple or something like that - before you go to sleep really helps.
Kelly Osbourne
#88. Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.
Ray Charles
#89. Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic
Peyton Manning
#90. They say you get nauseous in a green screen room, but I haven't yet. It's a little odd playing pretend with props and monitors that we're supposed to be watching, but I'll get used to it.
Laura Vandervoort
#91. They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.
John Gierach
#92. They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.
Elvis Costello
#93. Don't worry if they say you're crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It's a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.
Anne Sexton
#94. You wasn't made like watch-dogs and house-cats and cows. You was made a fox, and you be a fox, and its queer-like to me, Foxy, as folk canna see that. They expect you to be what you wanna made to be. You'm made to be a fox; and when you'm busy being a fox they say you'm a sinner!
Mary Webb
#95. If you hear voices, you're a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you're an author.
Dani Harper
#96. They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.
Alexander Payne
#97. 'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
Randy West
#98. It's true what they say - you know keenly, cruelly, what you're missing after it's gone.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#99. It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
Tony Benn
#100. They say you came back different. Came back wrong." A crow's laugh. "I never bother to tell them I think you came back right. Came back right at last." A
Sarah J. Maas
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