Top 100 When Someone Says Sayings
#1. Criticism is always hard to take - we musicians are sensitive. It's always hard when someone says something negative - but you try to learn to just let it roll off and not worry about it.
Joshua Bell
#2. The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band ... '
Mark Hoppus
#3. When someone says your name like that, when they won't even look you in the eyes, there is nothing more you can do or say. Their mind is made up.
Jay Asher
#4. And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response. The words said it all.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#5. the most basic rule of human discourse: when someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster
Stephen King
#6. WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, It's the Squirrel, you don't ask questions.
Rick Riordan
#7. When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.'
Julianne Moore
#8. Why is it that when someone says there are billions upon billions of stars up there in that beautiful sky you believe them, but when a sign says 'wet paint' you just have to touch it?
Allie Little
#9. I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.
Angelina Jolie
#10. When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
Damon Lindelof
#11. When someone says "just saying" what they really mean is, "You would be a colossal idiot to not take my advice." (on Facebook)
Stephen Altrogge
#12. I believe that we're not alone. How can we be alone in an infinite universe? I'm using the word 'alien' with a little trepidation because I know that sparks so many different versions of that word, and there are so many different images that come into one person's head when someone says it.
Rose Leslie
#13. It is like the feeling you have when someone says your first name all the time in conversation and you know he's been reading Carnegie.
Reid Hoffman
#14. have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place. In Louis Chen's case, he sometimes says my name as if it were a lesser-known word for bacon.
Helen Oyeyemi
#15. Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.
Donald Judd
#16. You know you've made it in D.C. when someone says that--"It isn't clear what he does"--about you.
Mark Leibovich
#17. When someone says, 'I admire your character,' I never know whether the person is talking about my ethics or referring to someone in one of my books.
Stifyn Emrys
#18. It's good when someone says, "Would you write a song for this purpose," or "would you record a song for this purpose," or "would you help me realize this song," again, for this purpose.
Will Oldham
#19. When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
Alanis Morissette
#20. Humans cover themselves, and protect themselves, and when someone says, "You are pushing my buttons," it is not exactly true. What is true is that you are touching a wound in his mind, and he reacts because it hurts.
Miguel Ruiz
#21. I do understand that not everyone is going to sit and listen to an Enya album. When someone says it's not their cup of tea, it's not their kind of album, that's fine by me.
Enya
#22. Do you know what you're saying when you say, "Whatever"? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by "you." And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' " Blaze leaned back. "So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.' (72)
Nicholas Sparks
#23. The first thing I say when someone says they want to be an actor is, 'Go get 'Backstage.' You know what's going on, you know who's doing what, and there's work that you can find in there. It's an incredible resource, and there's nothing else like it.
Geneva Carr
#24. My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' is so much fun.' That's what I want to do: smart, fun and big movies. I cannot lie, I love working with those big paint brushes. I have a blast doing these movies.
Louis Leterrier
#25. I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
Olivia Munn
#26. When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?
Richie Norton
#27. When someone says "don't freak," wouldn't a person think that maybe they should freak?
Jazz Feylynn
#28. I'm never satisfied. I can always find things that I can do better and go further on, so I force myself to accept when someone says, "We have it, it's good and we can move on."
Noomi Rapace
#29. As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.
Jenny O'Connell
#30. Something happens to me when someone says, 'You can't.' I'm generally not very competitive; unless someone tells me I can't do something that should be done.
Jim DeMint
#31. Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.
Joe Hill
#32. Tell me if you ever cared,
if a single thought
for me was spared.
Tell me when you lie in bed,
do you think of something
I once said.
Tell me if you hurt at all,
when someone says
my name with yours.
It may have been so long ago,
but I would give
the world to know.
Lang Leav
#33. If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
Patrick Wang
#34. When someone says you can't, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can't.
Tim Fargo
#35. When someone says they feel old, I always want to ask them why they feel old. Time passes for everyone. No one is exempt.
Donna Lynn Hope
#36. Even to this day, when someone says something derogatory about Boy George, it still upsets and offends me. Part of me will always be quite attached to him.
Douglas Booth
#37. I'm not that interested in fashion ... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
Bruce Oldfield
#38. Scientists in Australia are working on making biodegradable car parts out of hemp. This might get confusing. When someone says, roll up the window, they might mean, roll up the window!
Jay Leno
#39. I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.
Bindi Irwin
#40. When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything.
Isaac Mizrahi
#41. Murphy's Law; When someone says 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' nine times out of ten, it's the money.
Mitchell Symons
#42. I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."
Henry Rollins
#43. When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
Parker J. Palmer
#44. I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that.
Harlan Ellison
#45. It's rarely good when someone says your full name, except perhaps when it's at the end of I have a package for.
Lemony Snicket
#46. You know when someone says, 'no offense,' I pointed out to him, 'the thing they say directly after that is always offensive
Ripley Patton
#47. Sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#48. When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. Any conversation that takes place will be accidental.
James Anderson
#49. When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.
Winston Churchill
#50. I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.
Diane Keaton
#51. When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.
Martin Parr
#52. I found in the past when I did a bit of punditry, I was very conscious of not saying anything negative about people I played against, because players are elephants and they remember when someone says something - I stored things for years and just waited for my opportunity.
Brian O'Driscoll
#53. It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#54. Artists have to believe in the merit of their own work and persevere whether they receive public recognition or not, but it's ever so nice when someone says, "Job well done"!
Mary Pope Osborne
#55. I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.
Gene Robinson
#56. In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.
Stanley Hauerwas
#57. When someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster than a horse can trot.
Stephen King
#59. I'm a fighter, so when someone says 'no' to me, I try to figure out what I need to adjust to hear the yes.
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
#60. When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#61. When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
Celia Green
#62. But when someone says 'Paul Simon', don't you just inevitably think of a piece of wonder bread just sittin' there on a counter top?
Paul Simon
#63. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'
Cory Booker
#64. Ideally, what you would like to have eventually is such a unique and identifiable brand that when someone says 'Indiana State University,' they know exactly what that means. And that takes a long time coming.
Marc Edwards
#65. When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
Damon Lindelof
#66. Nothing lasts forever. That is the only truth we are guaranteed in life. When someone says they will love you forever, what does that really mean? Then again, what really is love? I think that's why we're here. For each of us to discover what love means to us.
Jewel E. Ann
#67. My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'
Jim Rohn
#68. I'd have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place.
Helen Oyeyemi
#69. When someone says something petty or nasty, one of those little passive-aggressive things that would usually just pick at me for days, my new response is not to shut the door and bitch to anyone who will listen. Now? The moment they say it? "What did you mean by that?" I ask in a calm voice. It
Shonda Rhimes
#70. It's like when someone says, 'How are you?' do you say, 'Well, mt head hurts and I'm lonely and depressed and I'm worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil? Or do you say, I'm fine?
Sara Shepard
#71. I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody.
Kenyon Martin
#72. When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of." That
Michael Lewis
#73. We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#74. All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.
Lil' Kim
#75. When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'
Matthew McConaughey
#76. When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.
Tara Brach
#77. When I put the plate down, you don't hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be just right. When someone says, "How come you're just a waitress?" I say, "Don't you think you deserve being served by me?"
Studs Terkel
#78. Why is it that when someone says "trust me", I always feel less inclined to do so?
Gemma Halliday
#79. I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
Baz Luhrmann
#80. When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.
Alan Perlis
#81. It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.
Kate Winslet
#82. Happiness is.. when someone says I am happy for you.
Vikrmn
#83. When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
Brunello Cucinelli
#84. I mean when someone says I forbid it, that's a good sign it's worth doing.
Rick Riordan
#85. You see, when someone says "it's impossible,' I have this very bad habit, I can't help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break.
Douglas Preston
#86. When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken", I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on".
Fred Rogers
#87. When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing that person to control you.
Joel Osteen
#88. It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.
Tyler Labine
#89. When I look at someone's face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, 'Finally you and I have met again. And now we must find out why'.
Caroline Myss
#90. Never Forget what someone says to you when they are drunk. Because Drunk words are Sober Thoughts
Wiz Khalifa
#91. When someone asks whether they have bourbon, the bartender says smugly, 'Yes, of course, James Beam, very good.' " "James Beam. That is
Don DeLillo
#92. I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'
Paul Feig
#93. I'm tired of someone being called 'quirky' because they tripped or got a stain on their shirt. It's like a beautiful blonde lady who's quirky because she has bedhead, or she's quirky because she sometimes says the wrong, cute thing. I like it when women are quirky as human beings.
Jenny Slate
#94. When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.
Godfried Danneels
#95. When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
Carol Burnett
#96. When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says."
Jonah Hill
#97. I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'
Carmen Electra
#98. The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, 'You saved my dad's life.'
Dick Cavett
#99. I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations.
John C. Reilly
#100. There is something really wrong with those boys. When your mother says don't walk in front of a bus, she has a good reason."
From the kitchen, Persephone's soft voice called, "If someone had stopped you from walking in front of a bus, Maura, Blue wouldn't be here.
Maggie Stiefvater
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