Quotes on Saying

When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.

Author: Kirstie Alley

When you make a bet, you're saying something.

Author: Al Alvarez

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

Author: Neil Armstrong

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

Author: Christopher Atkins

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Author: Pierre Beaumarchais

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

Author: Polly Berends

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

Author: Jello Biafra

I always think 12 times before saying anything.

Author: Brenda Blethyn

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

Author: Eva Braun

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Author: Kingman Brewster, Jr.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Author: Italo Calvino

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Author: Noam Chomsky

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Author: Winston Churchill

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

Author: Rosemary Clooney

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Author: Jean Cocteau

I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.

Author: Jessi Colter

As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me.

Author: Tony Conrad

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.

Author: Sam Dash

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Author: Ram Dass

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

Author: Neil Diamond

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

Author: Kate DiCamillo

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

Author: Janice Dickinson

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

Author: John Drinkwater

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

Author: Duke Ellington

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.

Author: Will Ferrell

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

Author: Ralph Fiennes

There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'

Author: Robert Flaherty

So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.

Author: Art Garfunkel

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.

Author: Kevin Garnett

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

Author: Gil Gerard

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

Author: Robert Greenleaf

This is about Floridians saying what's most important to them and making sure that we create an agenda that we can drive and deliver back in Washington, D.C. So it's very exciting.

Author: Katherine Harris

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

Author: Zahi Hawass

When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.

Author: Mitch Hedberg

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"

Author: Joseph Heller

Saying and doing are two things.

Author: Matthew Henry

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!

Author: Thierry Henry

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Author: Christopher Hitchens

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

Author: Howard Hodgkin

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

Author: Felicity Huffman

It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?

Author: Neil Innes

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

Author: Janet Jackson

Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually.

Author: Elton John

Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.

Author: Donald Judd

Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.

Author: David Kay

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Author: Helen Keller

I keep saying the word "weird" over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.

Author: Chuck Klosterman

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

Author: John Kluge

You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you.

Author: Judith Light

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

Author: Abbey Lincoln

Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.

Author: Lindsay Lohan

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

Author: Robert Lynd

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

Author: Wilma Mankiller

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

Author: Demetri Martin

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

Author: Walter Martin

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Author: Groucho Marx

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

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

Author: Menander

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

Author: Angela Merkel

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

Author: Iris Murdoch

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

Author: Ajay Naidu

Without saying word to anybody, cover thy face.

Author: Thomas North

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

Author: Susie Orbach

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

Author: Jean-Marie Pen

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

Author: John Pistole

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

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

Author: Jamie Redknapp

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

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

Author: Joan Rivers

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

Author: Frank Robinson

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

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

Author: Marilyn Savant

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

Author: Devon Sawa

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

Author: Diane Sawyer

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

Author: Robert Scheer

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

Author: Christopher Shays

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

Author: Paul Simon

I have had to learn about saying no.

Author: Jaclyn Smith

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

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

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

Author: Craig Stevens

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

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

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

Author: Tanya Tucker

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

Author: Mark Twain

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

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

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

Author: Lalla Ward

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

Author: Oscar Wilde

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