Top 100 What You Want To Say Quotes
#1. When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.
Jeff Buckley
#2. It's your choice what you want to say: compliments or complaints.
Sarvesh Jain
#3. First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.
C.S. Lewis
#4. Do not try to make your headline so short that it fails to express your idea properly. It's more important to say what you want to say - even if it takes 20 words to do than make it short and fail to express your idea.
John Caples
#5. It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
Evan Davis
#6. To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#7. If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.
Roberto Bolano
#8. Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
Orson Welles
#9. In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.
John Hench
#10. The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.
Hunter Hayes
#11. We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.
Dave Haywood
#12. Just say what you want to say ... and say it with all your heart.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#13. To say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again.
Giorgos Seferis
#14. Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.
Julie Taymor
#15. Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.
Pharoahe Monch
#16. Communicating is the biggest thing I struggle with. People either totally misunderstand what I am saying or just don't get it. It's tiring trying to explain what you want to say over and over. Even when I rephrase it, I still find it's not how it is in my head.
Tina J. Richardson
#17. The big things that I've learnt from my dad is that you can just say what you want to say.
Bindi Irwin
#18. You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.
Rula Jebreal
#19. Nobody makes anybody enlightened.
Just tell them what you want to say,
then let them decide for themselves.
Toba Beta
#20. The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.
William Friedkin
#21. Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.
Samuel Beckett
#22. Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
George Horace Lorimer
#23. In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
Aaron Siskind
#24. Confidence matters a lot than what you want to say, if you are not bold enough.
Auliq Ice
#25. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
Lorde
#26. [Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
Rachel Carson
#27. At times we're going to get angry. Anger is an emotion God built into us. But we don't have to blow up and say hurtful things that are going to damage our relationships. Learn to take a step back, collect your thoughts, and think about what you want to say.
Joel Osteen
#28. Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else's. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them, own them, you have to own people, then twist them into what you want to say about them.
Art Kane
#29. Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.
Allen Ginsberg
#30. Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.
Marc Jacobs
#31. Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.
Mariano Rivera
#32. Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.
Ron Fournier
#33. Always give your reader credit for being smart enough to figure out what you want to say.
Daniel Schwabauer
#34. Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that always rates as genuine on the page.
Betsy Beers
#35. You have to link what you want to say to what others' needs are.
John C. Maxwell
#36. I'm such an awful faker. Everything that comes out of my mouth needs to be the real deal. Not that I ever try to be deceiving, but sometimes it takes a while to find your voice and find what you want to say.
Steve Grand
#38. To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you ... a truth ... that used to elude you.
Norman Mailer
#39. I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.
Mike Leigh
#40. Sometimes communicating feels like a never ending maze. You know what you want to say, but you can't choose the right words. Then you go around and around trying to find them. Most of the time you just give up.
Tina J. Richardson
#41. Say what you want to say, and let the words fall out. Honestly, I wanna see you be brave!
Sara Barellies Brave
#42. You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Frank Zappa
#43. The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.
Lukas Foss
#44. If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.
Elena Anaya
#45. If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.
Jeffery Deaver
#46. There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.
William Zinsser
#47. 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
#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. Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
Etgar Keret
#50. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.
Allen Ginsberg
#51. A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#52. The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?
Graham Swift
#53. The greatest test of faith is when you don't get what you want, but still you are able to say Thank You Lord.
John Hagee
#54. Suffice it to say that something automatic and extraordinary happens in your mind when you create and focus on a clear picture of what you want.
David Allen
#55. [The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons.
John Daly
#56. That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
Maelle Gavet
#57. You are an artist," she said. "But then all scientists are artists, my father used to say. You think like an artist, at any rate, and I can see that you want what you create to be a work of art.
Pearl S. Buck
#58. I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
K'naan
#59. And also ... well ... i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms."
What'd they say?"
Over their dead bodies."
What did you say?"
I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.
Carolyn Mackler
#60. Basch: So why don't you ask her out?
The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no.
-So what? What have you got to lose?
-The possibility -if she says no- that she might have said yes. Whatever I do, I don't want to lose that possibility.
Samuel Shem
#61. Malone is surly, scary and ugly," I say. "So I'm gonna pass on him, if you don't mind." "I don't know," Chantal says. She looks past me. "What do you say, Malone? Want to go out with Maggie?
Kristan Higgins
#62. The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don't want to say it's a training ground; it really isn't, but what it does teach you is discipline.
Frank Grillo
#63. That's what being free means - not the right to do whatever you want, but the right to take a stand and say what you'll die for.
Sebastien De Castell
#64. You can say whatever you want; it doesn't matter. It doesn't faze me. I'll still go out and do what I have to do, whether that's making A's in the classroom or doing well on the field.
Robert Griffin III
#65. You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.
Sam Altman
#66. I want to be clear here: It does not matter what you say in your will or trust; the beneficiary document attached to your IRA accounts and your life insurance policy overrides what you say elsewhere. If you want to change the beneficiary, you must change the beneficiary document.
Suze Orman
#67. If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
Carl Safina
#68. I want to help people help themselves, not have government tell people what to do. I just don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you.
George W. Bush
#69. If you want to know whether or not you have had a successful life, think about what people would say about you at your own funeral.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#70. What'd you say sweetie? Oooh, yeah. You can tell me. You don't need to whisper. You're here now, I'm here. There's no one else... Tell me you want it, too.
Scott Burtness
#71. People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.
Joseph Boyden
#72. I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.'
'You're acting how they want you to now', he says,'but what happens when your Abnegation-wired brain tells you to do something else, something they don't want?
Veronica Roth
#73. If you were to die tomorrow, what would you want people to say about you?
Write it down. That is your personal vision statement.
Unknown
#74. You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
Brian McKnight
#75. The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
Al Pacino
#76. So just say F**k It to it all. Just do what the hell you want.
John C. Parkin
#77. What will they say, Ce, when we dance together? I want to do that. I want to hold you in my arms, in front of the entire damn world. Would you do that? Would you dance with me?
L.B. Gregg
#78. When I was 7 years old, my father asked me a simple question. He said, 'do you want to see someone fly?' What 7 year old boy is gonna say no to that?
Matt Striker
#79. When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?" you say, "What do you mean? I am with this goddess of love, the fulfillment of my whole life. Why are you saying this? Why do you want to throw a rock at her or punish me for being in love with her?
John Lennon
#80. People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.
Cynthia Lord
#81. Most of the time when there's a communication problem, it's because the message being received is not the message you want. It's not that they don't know what they need to do, how we need to act as a team, whatever. If you don't like the message, then you go say there's a communication problem.
Mike D'Antoni
#82. Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.
Martin Parr
#83. It's still not perfect, and maybe perfection isn't all it's cut out to be anyway. But it's good. It's really good. They say you can't always get what you want. But sometimes you can, and you do, even when you don't deserve it.
J.H. Trumble
#84. Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.
Fred Durst
#85. You talk to some people who are opposed to same sex marriage, and they'll say, 'If we allow that, what's next? Will people want to marry animals?' ... You have to wonder about people who go straight to that idea
and they think WE'RE weird!
Ellen DeGeneres
#86. If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.
Prince Charles
#87. No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
Ed Koch
#88. They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?
Scott Rudin
#89. All these corporations don't want their drivers to ruin their image, so you can't say what you think. You're basically not allowed to have a personality. How can you have any heroes if you don't allow personalities?
Jacques Villeneuve
#90. If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.
Margaret Atwood
#91. Make your siren's call and sing all you want. I will not hear what you have to say.
Mumford
#92. Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.
Helen Mirren
#93. If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.
Dylan Thomas
#94. Then if you want something and it's a good thing and you got it in the right way, you better hang on to it and don't let nobody talk you out of it. You care what a lot of useless people say 'bout you you'll never get anywhere, 'cause there's a lotta folks don't want you to make it.
Mildred D. Taylor
#95. You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.
R.C. Sproul
#96. She goes on to explain about how need to not only listen to what the other person is saying but try to hear the meaning behind their words. But my thing is that if you want someone to understand what you're saying, you should say what you mean.
Susane Colasanti
#97. There was a lot of pressure to find a genre and stick to it. People would tell me all the time, 'You can't be all things to everyone.' I would say, 'I'm not trying to be! I'm being what I want to be for myself.'
Tyler Joseph
#98. You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don't know who I am at all. And either way I'm not happy.
Holly Black
#99. Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me.. which is why I so often say publicly that I don't know or don't care what they're really about. And yet I can also say that the paintings are prayers.. that they have to do with whatever it is that makes you want more than what daily life affords.
Susan Rothenberg
#100. When I ask the young people from California why they want to go to New York, and the ones from the East why they're determined to go West, I hear what you'd expect: new challenges, different weather, boyfriends, girlfriends, to make a name ... They laugh when I say, 'But your poor mother.'
Susan Estrich
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