Top 83 You Don't Have To Say Anything Quotes
#1. If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don't have to say anything. Be friendly and then go do
your best. That will make you special, too!
Jeff Hutchins
#2. Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. And I think it's often very hard for close friends to understand that sometimes you want them to be there but you don't have to say anything, that their presence is as powerful as anything else.
Robin Roberts
#4. Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you
Robin McKinley
#5. It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.
Shia Labeouf
#6. On going to funerals: "You don't have to say anything. By showing up you are reassuring them that they are not alone. Just being there is enough.
Kunal Nayyar
#8. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#9. I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
Hanya Yanagihara
#10. Amy felt her phone vibrate. She held it up. It was from Ian.
DON'T ASK THE PRICE OF ANYTHING. DON'T SMILE. DON'T SAY "DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING CHEAPER?" DON'T
Amy shoved the phone back in her pocket. "Just pretend to be Ian," she told Dan.
Jude Watson
#11. They say that rape is the only crime in which the victim has to prove her innocence. And I want you to know, I believe in your innocence. You don't have to prove anything to me.
Alina Klein
#12. I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards - all that your can do is to have me killed.
Sophocles
#13. When I was younger, my parents used to say, "Trust us on this. We have more experience than you." And I was like, "Shut up, you don't know anything!" But I was an idiot. They did know more stuff because they'd experienced more things.
Chris Hardwick
#14. I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
Cate Blanchett
#15. Well, I don't have anything to say to Mr. Sneddon, you know? Nothing at all.
Tito Jackson
#16. I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.
Robert Barry
#17. I heard if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything. Let me tell you, I've always hated that saying.
Ashlan Thomas
#18. I don't know what goes on behind my back ... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.
Amy Heckerling
#19. If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it. People often say that my first years in Nashville, when I wasn't getting anything cut, were tough. Hell, those were great years.
Kris Kristofferson
#20. I know this is like the worst possible time, but I really need to tell you that I love you. Okay? Because I do. And you don't have to say it back or anything, but that's how it is.
Tere Michaels
#21. It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play. I don't know. I can only say this: I don't want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That's for sure. I'm open to anything else.
Dylan Walsh
#22. Now I will be anything else you please, except dull. You may say I have been dull already? As I am an honest woman, I don't agree with you. There are some people who bring dull minds to their reading - and them blame the writer for it. I say no more.
Wilkie Collins
#23. I have to say you don't look anything like a policewoman." Maxia's perfect eyebrows arched as she gave Eve's dress a quick scan. "Leonardo dresses you, doesn't he?"
"No, I usually do it myself.
J.D. Robb
#24. People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do - so even if I don't vote, I still have the right to speak out.
Lupe Fiasco
#25. I don't have to listen to anything you have to say.
Justin Bieber
#26. I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but you really don't have anything to say.
Lee Smith
#27. We have caller ID. We know who you are. If we wanted to talk to you, we would have picked up, but obviously we didn't. If you have anything at all that's important to say, you'll have to say it on the machine.
Don Bruns
#28. Don't be embarrassed about being loved. I'm not asking you for anything; just let me love you and play the piano again tonight, just once more, if I still have the strength to do it. In exchange I ask only one thing: If you hear anyone say that I'm dying, go straight to my ward. Let me have my wish.
Paulo Coelho
#29. If you don't have anything nice to say ... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.
Jeff Rich
#30. If you're not controversial you don't have anything to say. If you're not controversial you're boring. If you're bored you're boring to be with so don't ever tell anyone you re bored.
Sol Gordon
#31. I figured he was adhering to the adage that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't make fun of the person paying the mortgage.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#32. I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.
Wesley Snipes
#33. You don't even have a cat or a dog or anything?"
"You think I should?" George asks, a bit aggressive. The poor old guy doesn't have anything to love, he thinks Kenny is thinking.
"Hell, no! Didn't Baudelaire say they're liable to turn into demons and take over your life?
Christopher Isherwood
#34. You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don't, they're so numb they won't feel anything?
Gillian Flynn
#35. Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique ... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.
Charles Handy
#36. If I say to you I don't have an open marriage ... and you don't trust that, well, there's nothing that I really have to say to anybody about anything because at the end of the day, I'm living my life and I'm happy.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#37. The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.
Big Boi
#38. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all
A. J. Jacobs
#39. There's no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don't really have anything to say.
Charles M. Schulz
#40. If you ask an actor what he'd prefer to act on, he'd probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location out on a mountainside or by a river. It's just easier because you don't have to imagine anything.
Luke Evans
#41. I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.
Nate Ruess
#42. I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace.
Kate Langley Bosher
#43. I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'
Neil Gaiman
#44. There's no such thing as writer's block," she proclaimed. "If you can't write it's because you don't have anything to say. Or you're avoiding something.
Candace Bushnell
#45. Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!
Olympia Dukakis
#46. Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You may be laughing and nodding, but do you realize how few people, when asked the basic question, 'What can you do?' stumble on the answer and have nothing to say? Most people.
Tucker Max
#47. In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all.' In high school, we should say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, shut your mouth.' So that's what I'm telling high schools all around the world.
Nick Vujicic
#48. If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.
Gordon Parks
#49. Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended.
Michael Michele
#50. You know, it doesn't matter how beautiful you are, if you don't have anything interesting to say, then you're still boring.
Shirley Manson
#51. I grab a chair. "I don't mean to pry," I say, "but we're in a hospital. You sure you're fine?"
She sighs heavily. "No getting anything past you, huh?"
"I also often notice when water is wet. I have a keen detective's mind like that.
Holly Black
#52. I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.
Yao Ming
#53. I try to stick to one, single rule, "If you don't have anything to say, shut the fuck up." I think that's in the Bible or something.
Christopher Moore
#54. Listen, murderer, I don't want to hear anything you have to say! Jackson growled loudly.
Shakuita Johnson
#55. The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.
Roberto Rossellini
#56. No one said anything; they didn't need to. That's what it's like between best friends. Sometimes you just know what each other's thinking. You don't always have to say it.
Rose Impey
#57. Girl, you're free, can't you see that? You've got your child, you've got your family down here who love you, you've got your farm. You don't have to ask for anything. You know how few women in this world get to say that, black or white?
Natalie Baszile
#58. If you don't have anything good to say about someone, you must be talking about Hillary Clinton.
Jeff Foxworthy
#59. They [Marvel] don't tell you. You never know with them. They have their world, but they don't like to spoil anything, so nobody knows until it's set in stone. You don't know. I actually don't know what they have in store for Wilson Fisk, or my Wilson Fisk, I should say.
Vincent D'Onofrio
#60. The rule of thumb in student files seemed to be, If you have nothing negative to say, don't say anything at all.
Harlan Coben
#61. I don't talk to myself or anything, but sometimes I say things and I laugh at myself. Sometimes you have to make fun of yourself.
Kellie Pickler
#62. In the immortal words of Duke Vaughn, "If you don't have anything nice to say, take a big bite and chew slow.
Matthew FitzSimmons
#63. I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#64. I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.
Bill Drayton
#65. If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.
Angie Harmon
#66. Being a writer
is all about having something to say. And it'd better be interesting. If you don't have anything
interesting to say, don't become a writer. Become something useful. Like a doctor.
Candace Bushnell
#67. Gia." Jax caught my upper arm as I moved to pass him. "I've got this. Don't stress."
"Easy for you to say." I told him, my chin lifting. "You don't have anything on the line."
His jaw tightened. "I love you. I've got everything on the line.
Sylvia Day
#68. If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.
Morgan Freeman
#69. I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.
Branford Marsalis
#70. When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.
Nancy Reagan
#71. In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you. It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.
Chloe Sevigny
#72. The mice have a message for you,' he whispered. Coraline didn't know what to say. 'The message is this. Don't go through the door.' He paused. 'Does that mean anything to you?
Neil Gaiman
#73. If I said he really wants to see you, would you care a little bit?"
"No."
"You don't have anything you want to say to him?"
"I do, but I'm trying to be a better person and not use those words as much.
Deborah Nam-Krane
#74. I don't say no as much as I should. I'm an extreme workaholic. So I can be sick, and I still say yes to anything. When you are the CEO of your own company, editor of your own videos, your own writer ,and you do every role yourself, you have a hard time saying no to opportunities.
Lilly Singh
#75. You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.
Christopher Doyle
#76. Maybe superficial is exactly what I want right now. If you don't talk about anything that matters, no one can say anything that'll hurt you
and you don't have to talk about the things that are eating away at you from the inside.
Liz Kessler
#77. Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
Patrick Stump
#78. But the truth is, feelings don't change anything. To change something, you have to say things out loud. Do things. Take chances. Take a stand" -Riley
Jeff Garvin
#79. Alan Blunt got in touch with me and asked me to put you up here for the rest of the week, to pretend that you're my son. I have to say, you don't look anything like me."
"I don't look anything like myself either," Alex said.
Anthony Horowitz
#80. One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
Bill Nighy
#81. Be true to yourself, be kind to others, be honest, don't say anything if you have nothing nice to say
Lois H. Gresh
#82. I don't have enough knowledge or wisdom to say anything profound to people all over the world. But maybe a simple "I love you," as corny as it may sound, shows them that I am willing to be compassionate, generous, and peaceful with them.
Richard Brancatisano
#83. It's always the balance between the individual's subjective experience and the social structural condition. As individuals we have access to more than we've ever had before. Giving up our data seems a small price to pay, especially if, as you say, we don't feel we have anything to hide.
Astra Taylor
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