Top 100 What To Say Quotes
#1. Why is it that people don't know what to say when something bad has happened to someone they know? Maybe because they think there are some magic words that will make everything all right again, only they don't know what the words are.
Ellen Wittlinger
#2. Your fingerprints are your fingerprints
what to say about the
prints of your inner being? They are going to be separate, unique, incomparable.
Osho
#3. In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.
Steve Lacy
#4. I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
Uta Hagen
#5. Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.
Robert Crais
#6. At that promise, and him calling me "gorgeous", an electric spasm went straight through my lower belly and he kissed me and that was it. I'm a slut. I don't know what to say, even with the emotional scene, I gave in.
Kristen Ashley
#7. It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.
Patty Hearst
#8. I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
Salman Rushdie
#9. The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.
Ashly Lorenzana
#10. Don't get caught. The last thing we need is for you to go to jail."
"For treason?" he said, running a comb through his tousled hair. "We wouldn't go to jail."
"Really?"
"We'd be shot."
"You always know just what to say."
"I try to look on the bright side.
Heidi Heilig
#11. For once, Evie didn't know what to say. She hadn't really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, indeed, human, with a deep wound named Rotke.
Libba Bray
#12. Gen, with his genius for languages, was often at a loss for what to say when left with only his own words.
Ann Patchett
#13. The queen did not know what to say about a man whose virtue was that he did not beat his wife. "He was even kind to his ponies," Mrs. Dai added. "I'm sure he was," said the queen, back on familiar ground.
Ken Follett
#14. I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
Maisie Williams
#15. Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
Lewis Carroll
#16. After a long pause, Mama said, "Well, I don't know what to say." Daddy checked his watch and marked the time. "It took thirty years, but it was bound to happen sometime.
Molly Harper
#17. It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it.
Dana Perino
#18. I don't need a coach to tell me what to say. I need a coach to figure out what kind of shirt to wear and how to look at the camera and how to avoid, you know, picking your nose on camera.
Michael J. Saylor
#19. I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
Ira Glass
#20. But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?
Cormac McCarthy
#21. My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.
Simon McBurney
#22. I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired particular words, I would say them. I would be anything you want, Jane. Just come back. Please come back.
- Matthew in a letter to Jane.
Charlotte Featherstone
#23. When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.
Paul Auster
#24. I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.
Robin Williams
#25. There is no shortcut to understanding the people. When you understand the people, you often know what to say and do and how. When the people know that the Christians understand them, they infer that maybe Christianity's High God understands them too.
George Hunter
#26. What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.
Jeanette Winterson
#27. He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in the spring verdure, which was too young; and the hidden strings in his breast began to quiver; and to sound.
This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul.
Halldor Laxness
#28. Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston Churchill
#29. My dad loved the shit out of her and hardly ever knew what to say to her and she loved the shit out right back out of him and filled the silent part of their lives with books and coffee and other things.
Miriam Toews
#30. I don't know what to say to this Clare who is old and young and different from other girls, who knows that different might be hard.
Audrey Niffenegger
#31. Dad?"
"What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us.
"What should I be when I grow up?"
The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest," I finally say.
Robert M. Pirsig
#32. I don't know what to say other than you're really honored another team is looking at you.
Don Mattingly
#33. You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? ... If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.
George Bernard Shaw
#34. Son, different rules apply during the End of the World. I did not know what to say to that.
John C. Wright
#35. The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn't help but notice that all this time, she was secretly watching me.
"You are beautiful."
I took my eyes off my phone and I saw the girl talking to me. I was embarrassed and didn't know what to say or how to react.
Nico J. Genes
#36. That teenager still lives inside you. That person you were before the world started telling you how to be, what to say, who you should be with.
T. Torrest
#37. The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
Jonathan Kellerman
#38. Honey, five-years-olds say what they think. Knowing what to say and when is called being an adult.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#39. I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved ... But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
George Bernard Shaw
#40. I don't know what to say to fill the silence. I don't know how to fix this. It seems wrong to leave him, but I have to. There's no compromise, no alternative. Things just weren't meant to be, which seems like a pansy-ass thing to say, until it happens to you.
H.M. Ward
#41. You give me strength I didn't know I had," I said. "You make me better."
She blushed. "I don't know what to say."
Emma, bright soul. I need your fire - the one inside you.
Ransom Riggs
#42. I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...
Glenda Millard
#43. I am the empty sound
that fills the space between two
when neither one
knows what to say.
I am the moment before
the faint,
the all black and soundless fall,
I am the echoless dark
of far off space.
I am the way it never needs sound to shine.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#44. So many of you have lost everything. I don't know what to say to you. But the Lord does know what to say to you. Some of you have lost part of your families. All I can do is keep silence and walk with you all with my silent heart.
Pope Francis
#45. I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.
Hannah Murray
#46. For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.
Itzhak Perlman
#47. 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
#48. I wasn't sure what to say. Shall I tell her you're out?
Neil Gaiman
#49. I don't know what to say to you expect that it tore my heart out of my body saying goodbye to you.
Vita Sackville-West
#50. I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.
Reif Larsen
#52. There may well be a scientific paper to be written on why walking in an art gallery is so much more exhausting than, say, climbing Helvellyn. My guess is that it is something to do with the energy required to hold muscles in tension, combined with the mental exertion of wondering what to say.
David Nicholls
#54. I'm not told what to say by any Republicans and I've never done a personal appearance topless.
Kola Boof
#55. We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting traditional lyricism, I speak with a bare body without the tattoos of culture on it.
Kim Hyesoon
#56. Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.
Sherri Shepherd
#57. It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.
Tone-Loc
#58. Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of interest in subject of image at moment of writing, and write outwards swimming in sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion.
Jack Kerouac
#59. I don't know what to say, so far... there is some evidence which say that "Reincarnation", exist, but is it true?
Deyth Banger
#60. I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
Andrew Greeley
#61. I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'
Guy Pearce
#62. But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.
Meghan O'Rourke
#63. I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.
Fernando Torres
#64. I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.
Robert Pattinson
#65. No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
Muhammad Ali
#66. Stewart got out of the truck and walked into the wheat field he'd parked beside. The stalks grew higher the deeper into the field he went. He continued walking. The stalks were slightly taller than his waist, but he still didn't know what to say.
Andrew Kaufman
#67. You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within ... flesh and blood's dream ... so you fly now, pay later, all of us ... I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER
Jack Kerouac
#68. I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.
Justin Hayward
#69. I just looked you in TedX, I just check out... you had a problem in one of the eyes... probably and in the both eyes... also you were woried. I'm sure as conclusion I can say that you weren't sure what to say.
Deyth Banger
#70. Didn't know what to say but I did know what to think and that was that Jake Spear was ... the ... bomb.
Kristen Ashley
#71. [ ... ] death never replies, not because she doesn't want to, but because she doesn't know what to say in the face of the greatest of human sorrows.
Jose Saramago
#72. When you speak to a lot of kids, as I've done over the years, you know what to say, keep them laughing, good illustrations and learn to read.
George Foreman
#73. I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.
Beverly D'Angelo
#74. At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.
Joyce Carol Oates
#75. I hate telling people this. I never know exactly how my voice is going to sound saying it, and I hate the stricken looks they get on their faces when they don't know what to say back.
Kendare Blake
#76. Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
Balthus
#77. It felt like a reunion after an embarrassing absence. The affection and appreciation were earnest, but things had changed so much no one knew what to say.
T. Geronimo Johnson
#78. Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.
Lesley Gore
#79. 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
#80. It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.
David R. Brower
#82. I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.
Howard Gordon
#83. What to say if I was wise and on your age I will take the chances and take Reddit Collection #1 and #2...
But if you are hungry... go and buy one sandwich!
Deyth Banger
#84. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
Galileo Galilei
#85. My favorite comic book growing up was 'Thor.' It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a huge name, but for me, to book a role in a Marvel movie, and for it to be 'Thor.' When my manager told me I booked 'Thor,' I literally didn't know what to say.
Joseph Gatt
#86. I've known Danny all my life." She spoke slowly, as though she was working out what to say. "I've known you for less than a month. Are you asking me to choose between you?
Sofia Grey
#87. She doesn't know what to say. She feels quietly furious with him, while conscious that she has no right to be. What has he ever promised her, after all?
Jojo Moyes
#88. When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I have no idea. Let's face it, I'm probably going to recommend artists that I represent.
Larry Gagosian
#89. The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.
Chris Van Allsburg
#90. You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
Ingrid Bergman
#91. Food is a language of care, the thing we do when traditional language fails us, when we don't know what to say, when there are no words to say.
Shauna Niequist
#92. and awful. He never had anything to say to me, and I never knew what to say to him. Finally
Jenny Han
#93. It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. ( ... ) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.
David Millar
#94. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.
Drake
#95. He has been in her heart for so long it is as if she knows him already, but she doesn't. She does not know what to say or how to say it, and suddenly she is afraid that there is a wrong way to move forward, a mistake that once made cannot be undone.
Kristin Hannah
#96. I want to own you," Griffin whispered into Michael's ear. Michael smiled and for the first time in his life knew exactly what to say and how to say it. "You already do.
Tiffany Reisz
#97. Maybe people don't think moms are cool. I don't know what to say about it. I don't know. Romantic comedies aren't for everybody, so maybe mom movies aren't for everybody.
Anne Fletcher
#98. She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.
Julia Quinn
#99. Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.
Ronnie Radke
#100. I'm so terrible. When it comes to talking to women, I'm the worst. I don't know what to say. I come over very, very geeky.
Alex Pettyfer
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