Top 100 You Don't Say Quotes
#1. I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.
Colleen Haskell
#2. Now you should be thinking about me fucking you," he hissed. "Because I sure as hell am."
"Oh God," Kelly breathed.
"No, you don't say his name when I fuck you. You say mine.
Abigail Roux
#3. The things you say, the things you don't say, the things you do, or the things you don't do are always sending a loud message to those around you. What kind of a message are you sending? Is it a true reflection of who you are?
Lindsey Rietzsch
#4. You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on.
Magnus Magnusson
#5. It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say.
Judith McNaught
#6. If it's true, does it have to be nice? If you have something true to say, but you don't say it because you just want to be nice, isn't that sort of like a lie?
Megan Hart
#7. You don't say," he said. "Personally, I'd rather stay in, reading.
Kerri Maniscalco
#8. Faith is not a drive-through restaurant, Tanner. You don't say a prayer and pick it up from the window.
T.M. Gaouette
#9. An old cardboard box: you think it but you don't say it.
Leftovers, that are swept up and glued together.
I am your alipte, I say, I am your personal trainer and masseuse. I oil you.
But there's no ointment against the bad thoughts and phantasms.
Helene Cixous
#10. Seduction is the art of saying what you don't do in order to do what you don't say
Lois Lancaster
#11. I've realized that you become a bully if you are just watching someone get bullied and you don't say anything. Speak up!
Emma Roberts
#12. There's something in your heart
And it's in your eyes
It's the fire, inside you
Let it burn
You don't say, "Good luck"
You say, "Don't give up"
It's the fire, inside you
Let it burn
John Legend
#14. You don't say "Maybe I should go to bed early tonight" or do any of that stuff. It's almost like you know you're alone and you have to get through it by whatever means - distracting yourself. Because, the more alone time the worse, you know?
Ladyhawke
#15. You know you're loudest when you don't say anything at all?
Garrett Leigh
#16. You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'
Chris Matthews
#17. One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.
Michael Jackson
#18. It's been said that actions speak louder than words. Sometimes, it's what you don't say or do, that sends the loudest message.
Carlos Wallace
#19. What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world."
"You don't say."
"Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for non.
Daniel Stashower
#20. I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.
Viggo Mortensen
#21. I've been thinking about you and all my fucking sauces have been splitting. O'Reilly, everything you don't say speaks to something gentle in me. Something I thought I'd choked.
Mel Bossa
#22. What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.
Evan Davis
#23. [M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however. These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however.
Stefano Benni
#24. I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules.
Martina Cole
#25. The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say 'I read a science fiction novel that says it's not a problem.' You take action.
Al Gore
#26. You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.
Evgeny Morozov
#27. You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.
Anthony Burgess
#28. People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.
Christopher Cross
#29. When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
John Lennon
#30. In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.
Anna Camp
#32. Who shit in your coffee this morning?"
"And you don't say things like that. You're Ryodan
Karen Marie Moning
#33. You never have to apologize for the thing you don't say.
Coolidge
#34. When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.
V.T. Davy
#35. If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.
Shams Tabrizi
#36. It's not always what you say that matters, sometimes it's what you don't say.
Mr. Krabs
#37. If you don't say it's wrong, then you're telling them you agree.
Kim Harrison
#38. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
Patrick Ness
#39. Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don't say: 'Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to burn? Has it ever burned before? Is my baby flame retardant?'
Al Gore
#40. Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.
Patrick Rothfuss
#41. Any idiot can write a long book. All it takes is patience and a willingness to keep pounding on the keys. A short book is a challenge. It's all about what you don't say. What you trust the reader to bring with them.
Jason Sheehan
#42. Listen to me, Whit. Don't ever struggle so hard trying to come up with something to say that you don't say anything. That's the real crime because you're never, ever guaranteed another chance. As long as you say something, they'll know exactly how you feel.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#43. Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?
Neil Gaiman
#45. The cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don't say.
Harlan Coben
#46. Like a kid, I hadn't wanted to make it true by saying it out loud. Because if you don't say it, there's still a chance God, or someone, or anyone will notice the mistake and fix it.
Lili St. Crow
#47. When you have people like Casey [Affleck] and Michelle Williams and they want to do more takes you don't say, "Sorry, that's it." And I also don't like to say, "It's fine, it's great." Unless it's clearly there.
Kenneth Lonergan
#48. But sometimes you don't say the word because you think a thing is ongoing when actually it is already over. The
Rachel Joyce
#49. I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.
Franka Potente
#50. If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.
Ruud Gullit
#51. If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Calvin Coolidge
#52. I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you've lost your deposit. It's best if you don't say it.
John Hurt
#53. For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.
D.H. Lawrence
#55. I always wanted to be an actor. It's something I always secretly wanted. You know, I had the experience of being picked on as a child, and I would tell people, 'You're gonna be sorry when I'm famous!' And then I learned after they kicked the stuffing out me that you don't say that out loud.
DJ Qualls
#56. If you don't say anything it can't become important, but if you say it everyone's ever after got to walk round it like a pile of rocks in the living room.
Philip Hensher
#57. One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say.
Fredrik Backman
#58. Saying good-bye is basically an invitation not to see a person again. It's making it okay for that to be the last conversation you have. So if you don't say it--if you leave the conversation open--it means you'll have to see them again." ~Roger Sullivan
Morgan Matson
#59. If you don't say what you need to say when you have a chance ... you'll regret it. Even if you're mad, say it. Scream it into the world while you still have a chance to. Because once life passes you by, it's gone. And so are the words left unspoken.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#60. 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
#61. Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.
Jim George
#62. If you don't say what you're thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
Banana Yoshimoto
#63. These are the things you don't say, even to someone you love.
Johnny Rich
#64. Qui tacet consentire. If you don't say no, you just said yes. He
M.R. Carey
#65. When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don't focus on dialogue, only focus on what you're expressing.
Michel Hazanavicius
#66. You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.
Anthony Doerr
#67. When you're on the street and, in love, you hand someone a sandwich because he or she has no food, even if you don't say a word, your actions are prophesying to the person the heart and mind of God - and that's demonstration of love.
Shawn Gabie
#68. They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'
Albert Finney
#69. It's what you don't say, I hear the loudest
S.L. Northey
#70. You don't say words like 'gig', lady."
"My man's a biker. Shit rubs off.
Kristen Ashley
#71. I think, with certain characters, you have to listen. Sometimes, listening can be funnier: the thing you don't say is the one-liner. That's the ying to the yang.
Ray Santiago
#72. If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don't say: Let's stop fighting right now, because you're not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.
Natan Sharansky
#73. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'
Alain Resnais
#74. Sometimes it's what you don't say that counts.
Paulo Coelho
#75. Chicks dig a man of mystery." "You don't say." "You know what else chicks dig?" "Subatomic vaporizers?" "And werewolves. Chicks really dig werewolves." "Poor
Ilona Andrews
#76. How can you talk if you don't say anything? I said.
You talk without words. We are always talking without words.
Well, what good are words, then?
Not very good, most of the time. Most of the time they're only good to keep back what you really want to say, or something you don't want known.
William, Saroyan
#77. You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.
Will Rogers
#78. ... if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true.
John Green
#79. As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.
Hugh Jackman
#80. Shut up. For the rest of this conversation, you don't say anything. When I tell you what you did wrong, you don't say you're sorry, because I already know you're sorry. And when you drive outta here alive, you don't thank me for being alive. And you don't even say goodbye to me.
Neal Stephenson
#81. You don't say hello to Mr. DeNiro? Show the respect, will ya?
Joe Pesci
#82. Magdalena doesn't ask what Rebecka is doing at the hospital. That's how Rebecka realizes that Magdalena knows. It's the things you don't say. That's what always gives a person away.
Asa Larsson
#83. Silence heals nothing, fixes nothing, and unlocks nothing. Just because you don't say something doesn't make it any less true.
Mary Calmes
#84. It's just sometimes you don't say nothin' for so long, you forget why ya shut up in the first place.
Tiffany McDaniel
#85. When you love someone, you are sure. You don't need time to decide. You don't say stop and start over and over, like you're playing some kind of sport. You know the immensity of what you have and you protect it.
Nina LaCour
#86. I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-
John Green
#87. If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.
Charles Koch
#88. You don't say, Helena said. She took a cigarette out of her ripped purse and lit it because she smoked. She was a smoker.
Daniel Handler
#89. It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.
Richard Kadrey
#90. Just because you don't say much doesn't mean people don't notice you. It's actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There's this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there's the quiet one, the eye of the storm.
Amy Efaw
#91. Ah," Mark said. "I see. Awkward silence."
"You don't say 'awkward silence'," Alex said. "You just let it happen."
"I said 'awkward silence' to fill the awkward silence. It's meta."
"I don't think it is.
Lisa Henry
#92. Control is about fear, see. If you're afraid enough of the reprisals, you don't say no, you don't fight back, you don't run away. Saying yes is how you survive. It becomes normal.
David Mitchell
#93. It's easier to be authentic if you don't say you are authentic.
B. Joseph Pine II
#94. This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.
Connie Chung
#95. Let's be honest, honest it's important. I don't care about you, don't say bullshit and if there isn't any important thing please don't write me.
Deyth Banger
#96. Because no one gets upset if you don't say anything. All almost-eight-year-olds know that.
Fredrik Backman
#97. When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.
Joe Frazier
#98. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."
Madonna Ciccone
#99. I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable or flawed in any way. You deserve to be loved. You deserve kind words and an unwavering eye.
Menna Van Praag
#100. I would never dream of telling people how to dress. but I do say to them, however you are dressing, accept responsibility for it. And also, unless asked, I don't judge. And if asked to judge - I would approach it socratically, I would approach it with questions.
Tim Gunn
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