300 Quotes on Saying

• I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

  Author: Slavoj Zizek

• I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

  Author: Neil Young

• I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

  Author: Angus Young

• There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

  Author: Will Wright

• When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

  Author: Alfre Woodard

• As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

  Author: Alfre Woodard

• Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

  Author: Ed Wood

• No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

  Author: Naomi Wolf

• If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character.

  Author: Alicia Witt

• I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

  Author: Alex Winter

• I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

  Author: Walter Winchell

• Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

• There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

  Author: Ted Williams

• Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

  Author: Robin Williams

• The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

  Author: Robin Williams

• The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.

  Author: Charles Williams

• I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.

  Author: Prince William

• Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

  Author: Ron White

• Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

  Author: Mae West

• It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman.

  Author: Peter Weir

• What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?

  Author: Lemuel Washburn

• Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.

  Author: Lalla Ward

• A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

  Author: Bill Walton

• But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

  Author: David Wallace

• Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.

  Author: Greg Walden

• The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.

  Author: George Wald

• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• A witty saying proves nothing.

  Author: Voltaire

• I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

  Author: Tom Verlaine

• I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

  Author: Eddie Vedder

• If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

  Author: Charlie Trotter

• When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

  Author: Calvin Trillin

• Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

  Author: Obie Trice

• Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

  Author: Obie Trice

• It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

  Author: Alvin Toffler

• No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.

  Author: Cheryl Tiegs

• Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

  Author: James Thurber

• People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

  Author: Kristin Thomas

• It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

  Author: Randall Terry

• Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

  Author: Johannes Tauler

• A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

  Author: Wislawa Szymborska

• A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

  Author: Graham Swift

• There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.

  Author: Pat Summerall

• You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

  Author: Preston Sturges

• If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.

  Author: Theodore Sturgeon

• All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

  Author: Bart Stupak

• We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

  Author: Bart Stupak

• I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.

  Author: Madeleine Stowe

• Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

  Author: Louis Stokes

• Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality.

  Author: Elvis Stojko

• There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

  Author: Tom Stewart

• To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting.

  Author: Craig Stevens

• Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

  Author: Pamela Stephenson

• Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

  Author: James Stephens

• But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

  Author: Jason Statham

• And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.

  Author: Ringo Starr

• I couldn't believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes.

  Author: Koo Stark

• Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

  Author: Paul Stanley

• The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

  Author: Morgan Spurlock

• What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go!

  Author: Jeremy Spencer

• It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• A short saying often contains much wisdom.

  Author: Sophocles

• But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

  Author: Sophocles

• The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

  Author: Richard Snelling

• In those days reputation was a big thing. If you could win a game before you went out, win it. That could mean winning it in the papers by saying certain things or by not saying certain things. You got very crafty at the game.

  Author: Tommy Smith

• There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.

  Author: Maggie Smith

• I have had to learn about saying no.

  Author: Jaclyn Smith

• The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

  Author: Nikki Sixx

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  Author: Isaac Singer

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  Author: Isaac Singer

• I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.

  Author: Ashlee Simpson

• I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

  Author: Paul Simon

• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  Author: Ignazio Silone

• So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

  Author: Mark Shields

• They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

  Author: Allan Sherman

• I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

  Author: Richard Sheridan

• You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

  Author: Antony Sher

• When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.

  Author: Cybill Shepherd

• Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

  Author: Christopher Shays

• During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

  Author: Anne Sexton

• It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.

  Author: Ayrton Senna

• Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

  Author: Compay Segundo

• I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.

  Author: Pete Seeger

• I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

  Author: David Sedaris

• Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

  Author: Lance Secretan

• I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

  Author: George Seaton

• The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

  Author: William Scranton

• I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

  Author: Tony Scott

• People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

  Author: Lee Scott

• Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?

  Author: Joel Schumacher

• Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves.

  Author: Rose Schneiderman

• The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.

  Author: Sally Schneider

• When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

  Author: Boz Scaggs

• There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'

  Author: John Sayles

• Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

  Author: Alexei Sayle

• Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

  Author: George Santayana

• I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.

  Author: Harrison Salisbury

• The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

  Author: Bob Saget

• We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

  Author: Meg Ryan

• That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'

  Author: David Russell

• I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work.

  Author: David Russell

• Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

  Author: John Ruskin

• But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

• They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

• Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

  Author: Margaret Runbeck

• But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• Usually we are saying only part of the truth.

  Author: Erno Rubik

• Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.

  Author: Pete Rozelle

• I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

  Author: Diana Ross

• A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.

  Author: Christina Romer

• What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

  Author: Sonny Rollins

• Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

  Author: Will Rogers

• I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.

  Author: Richard Rogers

• But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.

  Author: Edith Rogers

• I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then.

  Author: Michelle Rodriguez

• As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting.

  Author: John Robinson

• At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying.

  Author: Frank Robinson

• It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.

  Author: Jay Roach

• I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

  Author: Larry Rivers

• I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

  Author: Thelma Ritter

• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  Author: Faith Ringgold

• However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

  Author: Adam Rickitt

• So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

  Author: Lionel Richie

• We're not saying that you don't need coal, but when you do mine the coal there are responsibilities to it. It may cost a little more, but it is the right thing to do.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

  Author: Buddy Rich

• Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

  Author: Leah Remini

• The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable.

  Author: Mitchell Reiss

• No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.

  Author: Rosser Reeves

• People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

  Author: Keanu Reeves

• Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

  Author: Henry Reed

• But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.

  Author: Jamie Redknapp

• It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

  Author: Ted Rall

• I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'

  Author: Mary Rajskub

• Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town.

  Author: Anthony Quinn

• I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

  Author: Marcel Proust

• You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

  Author: Priscilla Presley

• Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

  Author: Colin Powell

• To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

  Author: Emily Post

• There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

  Author: Parker Posey

• No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.

  Author: Pete Pont

• I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

  Author: Frederik Pohl

• The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

  Author: Edgar Poe

• I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'.

  Author: John Pistole

• Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

  Author: Prince Philip

• So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.

  Author: Roger Penrose

• I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

  Author: Jean-Marie Pen

• I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

  Author: Nancy Pelosi

• It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

  Author: Ivan Pavlov

• What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

  Author: Ron Paul

• As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

  Author: Ron Paul

• I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

  Author: Rand Paul

• Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

  Author: Boris Pasternak

• If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

  Author: Dolly Parton

• Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

  Author: Trey Parker

• They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'

  Author: Robert Parker

• I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

  Author: Joe Pantoliano

• That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

  Author: Chuck Palahniuk

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  Author: Jack Paar

• In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

  Author: Cynthia Ozick

• People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'

  Author: Major Owens

• But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.

  Author: Buck Owens

• I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

  Author: Joel Osteen

• If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

  Author: Joel Osteen

• I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

  Author: David Ortiz

• The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.

  Author: Peter Orszag

• Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'

  Author: Robert Orben

• Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

  Author: Susie Orbach

• One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

  Author: Georgia O'Keeffe

• A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.

  Author: Sandra Oh

• I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

  Author: Carroll O'Connor

• Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

  Author: Richard O'Brien

• Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

  Author: Barack Obama

• I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?

  Author: Michael Nyman

• In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

  Author: Trevor Nunn

• There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

  Author: Gary Numan

• Without saying word to anybody, cover thy face.

  Author: Thomas North

• I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

  Author: Larry Norman

• I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament.

  Author: Greg Norman

• We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

  Author: Yannick Noah

• People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

  Author: Vaslav Nijinsky

• There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

  Author: Leslie Nielsen

• But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

  Author: Juice Newton

• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  Author: Ted Nelson

• Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

  Author: Pola Negri

• We've probably gotten 500 calls from people saying what the heck is going on with gas, and I gotta say I agree with you. What the heck is going on with gas?

  Author: Janet Napolitano

• The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

  Author: Ajay Naidu

• Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.

  Author: Mike Myers

• In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

  Author: Bill Murray

• Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

  Author: Iris Murdoch

• When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

  Author: Walter Murch

• I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.

  Author: Bill Mumy

• A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

  Author: Martin Mull

• To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

  Author: Nicholas Mosley

• We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

  Author: Samantha Morton

• Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

  Author: Errol Morris

• No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard.

  Author: Mary Moore

• Now some are saying maybe $1.6 trillion in is not enough maybe we should look at $2 trillion.

  Author: Dennis Moore

• A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.

  Author: Mario Monti

• We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

  Author: Maria Montessori

• Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

  Author: Mary Montagu

• I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

  Author: Bob Monkhouse

• The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

  Author: Kylie Minogue

• What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

  Author: Liza Minnelli

• The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.

  Author: Kenneth Miller

• I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

  Author: Ed Miliband

• I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

  Author: Tiffeny Milbrett

• I'm not saying I didn't have ample time to recover, ample time to get to my best, I felt this year I did fine. When I stepped on the field for the national team, I was ready and able to make an impact, to score goals, to create chances.

  Author: Tiffeny Milbrett

• This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  Author: H. Mencken

• 'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

  Author: Menander

• I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

  Author: John Mellencamp

• It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

  Author: Fred Melamed

• For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.

  Author: Kendrick Meek

• Toots said to me, 'I gotta hand it to him, thought, when he got into the big money, he came by and handed me the cash, saying, 'Here's what I'm sure I owe you.'

  Author: Audrey Meadows

• Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

  Author: Ed McMahon

• Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

  Author: Mignon McLaughlin

• I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'

  Author: Ian Mckellen

• It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel.

  Author: Tim McGraw

• You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

  Author: George McGovern

• I did feel Dr. Cox, the character that I was auditioning for, was too similar to the head of the hospital. He was too arrogant and mean. I approached him kind of like I had a miniature Max sitting on my shoulder. I pictured Max saying, "This guy has got to give love every once in a while. He has to!" I knew there had to be tiny little windows of redemption.

  Author: John McGinley

• I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

  Author: John McGahern

• In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

  Author: Colleen McCullough

• The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

  Author: Colleen McCullough

• Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

  Author: Paul McCartney

• We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.

  Author: Yukihiro Matsumoto

• Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

  Author: Harry Mathews

• First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes.

  Author: Kim Mathers

• I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.

  Author: Richard Marx

• Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

  Author: Groucho Marx

• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  Author: Walter Martin

• Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

  Author: Demetri Martin

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