Top 100 Things To Say Quotes
#1. I'm running out of things to say.
I've stopped stealing pages out of poetry books, but last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you and could only find rain
and more rain
and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, an orchestra.
Shinji Moon
#2. The more she talked that way, the worse I felt. She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blundering adolescent in her eyes, and she was trying to let me down easy.
Daniel Keyes
#3. Jeff Beachum, Sergeant of Snark, Wielder of Witticism, Dominator of the Double Entendre, completely ran out of things to say.
Amy Lane
#4. There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
Theodore Sturgeon
#5. I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.'
...
'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.'
'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.
David Foster Wallace
#6. The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.
Terry Pratchett
#7. The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
Caitlin Moran
#8. When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too ... I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#9. Your rack looks fabulous in this dress. You should wear this one. He'll lose his shit when he sees you in it."
"You always know the right things to say," I joked.
"I know. I'm like a super-hot version of Yoda.
J.L. Berg
#10. I want to be independent. To meet interesting people ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.
Kate Morton
#11. I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me.
Sophie Okonedo
#12. There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
William Julius Wilson
#14. The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
George Horace Lorimer
#15. So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.
Colum McCann
#16. This is why you need everyone you know after a disaster, because there is not one right response. It's what paralyzes people around the grief-stricken, of course, the idea that there are right things to say and wrong things and it's better to say nothing than something clumsy.
Elizabeth McCracken
#17. I have a lot of things to say and a lot of things to let out of me.
Christina Aguilera
#19. People have interesting things to say and you're only going to learn from different people's experience and knowledge.
Ed Speleers
#20. I love writing pop songs and I love the challenge. I love melodies and wanted it to be classy. I wanted it to have some substance because I feel as if I have a lot of things to say and wanted it to have something to it.
Courtney Jaye
#21. My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
Michael Caine
#23. The Internet is a big place where a lot of people can voice their opinions, and my mother chooses to pick fights with random people from all over the world who don't have the nicest things to say about me.
Chris Evans
#24. Moron?" I asked, trying to lighten the suddenly tense mood. She covered her eyes with one hand. "It was the best I could come up with on the spot. Now that he's gone, I have so many bitchier things to say." Her chin trembled, and I was the one that felt like a moron. "I'm sorry," I whispered.
Rachel Higginson
#25. Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup?" she says. "Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.
Veronica Roth
#26. I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.
Susan B. Anthony
#27. Don't go getting offended my friend, I have much worse things to say to you.-Ad'Dam, Journey from Atremes
Riley Amos Westbrook
#28. It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.
David Levithan
#29. The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Andre Gide
#30. Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.
James Howe
#32. The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.
George Polya
#33. If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
#34. Stop for a minute and think about how you typically interact with God. If prayer time is dominated by your own talking, some adjustments may be in order. Just as the Lord spoke to David, God also has many things to say to you, if you'll simply let Him speak.
Charles Stanley
#35. If I knew this is your final goodbye; I'd have told you that still I've a lot of things to say. I'd have told you how you changed my life, how you made me close to Me, how you made me realize the beauty of the world.
If only I knew, this is your final goodbye ... I'd have never let you say it ...
Crestless Wave
#36. I would not dream of taking on Tobey Maguire. Plus, he's a talented and nice guy, and I have nothing but nice things to say about him.
Neil Patrick Harris
#37. I know i barely talk and pretty much act like I'm not here, but I'm totally here and have a million things to say, and me being me is exactly as insane as you being you.
Todd Hasak-Lowy
#38. I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.
Ted Kooser
#39. People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.
Amanda Hocking
#40. Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.
Gail Zappa
#41. I'm better at accepting the people who don't have nice things to say about me anonymously, but until you've experienced it, you don't understand how much it can affect you and mess with your mind.
Steve Grand
#42. When you're lying on your deathbed, one of the cool things to say is, 'I really explored myself.' This sense of urgency was instilled when my mom died. If you only go through life doing stuff that's easy, shame on you.
Carol S. Dweck
#43. Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in compelling ways, will succeed.
Daniel Suarez
#44. I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah.
John Starks
#45. I feel like I have things to say. And that's what I'm looking forward to.
Sean Paul
#46. I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.
Hugh Laurie
#47. Laura thought Bell would have a few things to say to Pynchon. And Laura had a few things to say to Bell, like, How the hell was a writer supposed to know when she was one-fifth through her novel-writing, so she could cut a door into the wall and shove her character out into the forest?
L.L. Barkat
#48. Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.
Lev Grossman
#49. I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans ... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.
Jason Calacanis
#50. As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#51. Welcome, fellow Cahills... I am the Outcast. Sit back. I have a few things to say.
Jude Watson
#52. What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday run out of things to say.
George Packer
#53. There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English. It means, well, the clever things to say that you only think to yourself when you're on the way out.
Neil Gaiman
#54. A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.
Norman Maclean
#55. I had so many things to say.
I had so many things to say
A.S. King
#56. I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
Jennifer Weiner
#57. Our age: more "communication experts" that important things to say.
Luigina Sgarro
#58. Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.
Luc Besson
#59. So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
Lois Lowry
#60. As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way ... It's just different. If we harp on about it, they'll feel like we're just old fuddy-duddies, so I just kind of get on with it. I still feel I've got things to say.
Guido Palau
#61. We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
Cameron Russell
#62. I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.
Erin Morgenstern
#63. When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#64. I'm very opinionated and I have a lot of things to say. Sometimes I sound a bit like a willy.
Cher Lloyd
#65. A lot of people have fancy things to say about customer service, but it's just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, persevering, compassionate kind of activity.
Christopher McCormick
#66. Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.
Andy Warhol
#67. The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.
Eric Cantona
#68. I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.
James Bay
#69. The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.
Moira Rogers
#71. His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
Maurice Ashley
#72. This book carries the urgency of racing against time, of having important things to say. Paul confronted death - examined it, wrestled with it, accepted it - as a physician and a patient. He wanted to help people understand death and face their mortality.
Paul Kalanithi
#73. It's always the ones who are the quietest who often have the greatest things to say.
T.J. Klune
#74. Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.
Shannon Hale
#75. I do feel like I have important, beautiful things to say about the world, I just can't think of them at this particular instant.
Peter Davis
#76. I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far.
Shiri Appleby
#77. Jesus was the consummate scientist. He knew the omnipresence of Light which we have expressed in radio, radar and television, but all He could say in His day was: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now."
Walter Russell
#78. When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.
Richard Flanagan
#79. Those canids such as foxes, who do not live in a social group, appear to have a much more limited range of things to say. Even the kinds of sounds foxes make are indicative of their more solitary nature: they make sounds that travel well over long distances.
Alexandra Horowitz
#81. Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw
#82. If I had interesting things to say, I would have been a speechwriter. I think it gets to musicians' heads a lot of the time. Just because people like your records doesn't mean what you have to say is going to be interesting.
Aesop Rock
#83. Had a million things to say and none I knew how. I stepped forward and kissed him, like people kiss at airports, full of love and desperate longing, kisses that must imprint themselves on their recipient for the journey, for the weeks, the months ahead.
Jojo Moyes
#84. Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.
Sasha Alexander
#85. In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, Hi, was it good for you too? If a girl spent the night, I'd wake up in the morning and then try to get her drunk.
Steve Martin
#86. I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.
Janeane Garofalo
#87. Peaceful in the knowledge that a long and happy relationship negates the need for constant chatter. Zoya and I had long perfected the art of sitting silently in each other's company for hours on end, while never running out of things to say.
John Boyne
#88. I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
Salman Rushdie
#89. A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all.
David Bowie
#90. My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.
Michel Gondry
#91. I think what I really mean is that [she] won't be WANTING things to happen. She will want things to say just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exciting may be just round the corner.
Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
#92. And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
Arundhati Roy
#93. Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say.
Suman Pokhrel
#94. As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.
Kathryn Stockett
#95. The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him
I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
Andre Gide
#96. It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.
Isak Dinesen
#97. I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
C.S. Lewis
#98. I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.
Tamora Pierce
#99. I am dying now, but I still have many things to say.
Roberto Bolano
#100. I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.
Judd Apatow
