Top 100 When You Say Quotes
#1. The world is full of narcissistic cybersex playboys ready to replace you with the swipe of finger when you say "no" or order an appetizer with your drink.
Cat Volz
#2. When you say you don't think we should have public schools, they can't believe you mean that. You must mean that they should be smaller. But you can't really mean no public schools.
Dave Barry
#3. To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a thing as good. When you say there is such a thing as good, you must assume there is a moral law by which to distinguish between good and evil.
Frank Turek
#4. Saying No gains you respect. When you say No, the other person may feel disappointed. But ultimately, they will respect you for taking good care of yourself. And most of all, you'll respect yourself because you are being true to yourself!
Doreen Virtue
#5. When you say politics, you conjure a whole bunch of associations: elections, campaigning, debates, fundraising. None of this exists in Russia! We are still fighting not for election victories but for having elections at all.
Garry Kasparov
#6. When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.
Curt Schilling
#7. When you say, 'I can't do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn't do that before.'
Leo Tolstoy
#8. Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.
Larry Winget
#9. You're a chain-smoking, alcoholic hyper-violent sociopath with daddy issues!"
"When you say it like that it sounds bad ...
S.L.J. Shortt
#10. Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?
Sharon Creech
#11. Your lips are so cute when you say things that mean nothing to me.
Karen Akins
#12. Evie narrowed her eyes. "A time limit. Four weeks of the swooniest, swellest romance New York City has ever seen. And then, kaput. Over and out. Off the air."
"Golly, when you say it like that, it sounds as if our love's not real, Lamb Chop.
Libba Bray
#13. The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.
Geri Halliwell
#14. In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
Bill Conti
#15. Words have meanings.When we call something a theory in science, it means something. Reggie, when you say that you 'can't help yourself' if a girl is wasted, that means something,too.You're saying that our natural state as men is 'rapist'.
Aaron Hartzler
#16. You're so far away, but when you say i love you it feels like your right beside me.
Bernard Dsa
#17. People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.
Taylor Swift
#18. Self-pity leads to continuing to love the sin so it still has power over you, but hating yourself. Real repentance is when you say, "What has this sin done to God? What has it cost God? What does God feel about it?
Matt Papa
#19. Ty:"It sounds pretty when you say it, but I have no clue what the hell you're talking about."
Imogen:"It's Shakespeare," she said.
Ty:"Well, I was pretty sure it wasn't Kenny Chesney.
Erin McCarthy
#20. Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.
Michael Josephson
#21. [In New York,] when you say you're an actor, there's a certain level of respect that goes with that.
Condola Rashad
#22. When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'
Jane Elliott
#23. There are many kinds of sincerity and insincerity. When you say 'thank you' for the salt, do you mean what you say ? No. When you say 'the world is round,' do you mean what you say ? No. It is true, but you don't mean it
G.K. Chesterton
#24. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
Maya Lin
#25. When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair. -E.B. White
E.B. White
#26. Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.
Jose Marti
#27. When you say three things, you say nothing.
Chip Heath
#28. Dellwyn: I will teach you everything you need to know to entice your father's murderer into killing his wife to be with you."
Aya: It sounds so disturbing when you say it like that.
Kate M. Colby
#29. I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?
Roy Blount Jr.
#30. When you say you experience my writing as sacred, what you are touching is the divine place within me that is my mother. Sugar is the temple I built in my obliterated place.
Cheryl Strayed
#31. I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.
Tracey Gold
#32. You're never terrified when you say what you mean - are you?
Mo Mowlam
#33. When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
Gloria Steinem
#34. The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.
Stanley Kubrick
#35. Honestly, I'd love to think I was in a position where I had that decision. But last year I worked on a movie in Bulgaria, now I'm in New York or LA. It really sounds jet-setting when you say it, but there's lots of down-time where you wonder what you're doing or you wonder about life.
Sean Mahon
#36. When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#37. When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto Von Bismarck
#38. When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
Max Frisch
#39. It's all over you when you say his name. Like glitter or something. You can't ever get that shit off. Glitter is the herpes of the craft world.
Leta Blake
#40. I'd love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.
Kandyse McClure
#41. It's very rare to have a patient who isn't absolutely delighted when you say, 'I read your feedback. The session didn't go well. You actually got more upset, and I made about three really horrible errors.' If you do that from the heart and not as a gimmick, boy, it's a wonderful thing.
David D. Burns
#42. When you say "Ghetto Fights," that sounds extremely racist.
Sean Hannity
#43. Rhymes make me feel better when I'm down ... When you say the words and the sounds match, it feels like everything in the world is in its place and whatever you say is powerful and true.
Liesl Shurtliff
#44. The amount of excitement when you say hi will be paid back when you say bye!
S.E. Sever
#45. When you say "Yes!" to your dream and do what you truly love to do, you are also transforming the world for the better.
Cheryl Hamada
#46. When you say "I will do it", you will stretch your capabilities and achieve something extraordinary.
Avinash Narula
#47. Love is a rose
But you better not pick it.
It only grows
When it's on the vine.
Handful of thorns
And you'll know you missed it.
You lose your love
When you say the word MINE.
Neil Young
#48. There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
Charles Baxter
#49. When you say something, and a thousand people are hearing it, you hope you leave an impression.
Mickey Drexler
#50. When you say vision you have a track that this is what I would like to say.
Muhammad Yunus
#51. When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".
Steve Maraboli
#52. Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.
Ursula Burns
#53. When you say, "I love you," my heart dances with joy. When you say, "I belong to you," I become you and enjoy.
Debasish Mridha
#54. I want to wake up every morning and listen to your heart. I want to be the last man you slept with. When you say it's been a long time since you made love, I want that time to be a matter of hours. Because I loved you last night. And I'm going to love you again tonight.
Suanne Laqueur
#55. When you say we're bringing a product to market, you make sure you execute.
Thorsten Heins
#56. "Perceive" is the word that became in the '72 campaign what "charisma" was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. "Perceive" is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.
Hunter S. Thompson
#57. When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
Taylor Swift
#58. No means no. I don't care when you say it, Lily. Once it's out there, it's out there. Any halfway decent guy would have backed off.
Krista Ritchie
#59. To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, "I believe in my friend."
Frederick Buechner
#60. Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.
Christopher Atkins
#61. I think the most significant moment at a wedding is when you say "I do" and when you do the first dance.
Tyrese Gibson
#62. When you say you are HAPPY, it also means that you have experienced sadness.. Because you wont know, without sadness, what happiness is ...
Gayathri Purushothaman
#63. I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about what you actually do believe in, instead of when you say you're an atheist, and it's really just a statement of what you don't believe in.
Greg Graffin
#64. When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.
Tommy Lasorda
#65. Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
Chuck Close
#66. When you say gorgeous," Jen started, "are we talking Brad Pitt boyish good looks, or Johnny Depp make ya want to slap somebody?" "No, we're talking Brad and Johnny need to bow down and recognize" Jacque answered.
Quinn Loftis
#67. Now when you say staring, are you including yourself in this assessment? I recall you taking in the view on several occasions."
"For the last time, I was not staring at you." I was a terrible liar. "Now, if you're done, I'd like to finish asking my question.
Stacey O'Neale
#68. When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.
Ed Smith
#69. The hour when you say, What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. I like your story," I say, running my hand up his sweater. "Happy endings are sexy." Ford grins. "When you say shit like that, I can't believe you don't hear how fucking dirty you sound.
Bijou Hunter
#71. The belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men'
you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain:
humility and brotherhood.
Agatha Christie
#72. Everything's better when you say it in Latin.
Holly Black
#73. The connection was so bad, and I couldn't talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back 'What?
J.D. Salinger
#74. Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."
Norman Vincent Peale
#75. When you say your Rosary, the angels rejoice, the Blessed Trinity delights in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and I myself am happier than you can possibly guess. After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, there is nothing in the Church that I love as much as the Rosary.
Alanus De Rupe
#76. From the moment you say 'action,' this is the fun part - things should happen that surprise you, excite you, scare you, turn you on, make you laugh. If things aren't surprising you, when you say 'cut,' whisper things to the actors that will make them do things that do surprise you.
Jill Soloway
#77. I love the sweet sound of my name when you say it with love.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.
Ice-T
#79. We shoulder it so these people don't have to know it too. And I know this because that's what you say. And when you say it, I believe you. And when I believe you, I'll follow you anywhere.
A.C. Gaughen
#80. Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.
Richard Bach
#81. If you can't keep a promise to your family, can't keep a promise to your wife, you're having an affair, you're lying about the affair repeatedly. Why should the American people trust you when you say you're not gonna lie to them. Why should we trust you?
Sean Hannity
#82. You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.
Sandra Bernhard
#83. You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.
Rod Coronado
#84. You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.'
How?'
Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.
Jodi Picoult
#86. Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'
Nell Newman
#87. Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier
#88. I raise my wrist, show him the bracelets. I have pride in them now. They're true, and people can't screw with them. And when you say the truth you get stronger.
Ned Vizzini
#89. Sweetheart, when you say Matt's name, you have the same look in your eyes that he'd get whenever he'd say yours.
Sarah Ockler
#90. Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
Clarence Darrow
#91. It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?
Dr. Dre
#92. You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#93. People get upset when you say you kill people. Fair enough.
Adam Sternbergh
#94. When you say '90210,' everyone knows what you're talking about. So why not make use of that? And they certainly have. I think the show looks beautiful, and all the actors are doing a great job. It's a tangled web they've created thus far. It's great.
Jason Priestley
#95. It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.
Sandra Bullock
#96. When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.
Luigi Pirandello
#97. The word 'try' is for losers. When you say 'I will try', it means that you are planning never to do it in your lifetime.
Ankit Uttam
#98. Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.
Marilyn Manson
#99. I don't think you're entirely understanding how this boyfriend thing works, Ben. Denying me in the shower, it's very hurtful."
"You do realize I can actually hear the air quotes when you say boyfriend.
John Wiltshire
#100. When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me."
That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.
Augusten Burroughs
