Saying Quotes

I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional.

~ Charli Xcx

People keep saying how amazing it is having a female lead, and I just sort of feel, 'Well, of course!'

~ Felicity Jones

My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.

~ Dylan O'brien

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.

~ Maria Montessori

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.

~ Faith Ringgold

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

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

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.

~ Dennis Franz

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

~ Tony Blair

I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

~ Nancy Pelosi

Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced diet - what more do you need? Nobody got fat.

~ Frank Mccourt

That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

~ Chester Brown

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

~ Quentin Tarantino

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

~ Lillian Hellman

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

~ Harri Holkeri

There's no point in saying anything but the truth.

~ Amy Winehouse

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

~ Mel Brooks

Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

~ Tara Brach

Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.

~ Cynthia Mckinney

Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'

~ Sean Covey

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.

~ Barack Obama

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

~ Alan Rickman

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

~ Tim Burton

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.

~ Pierce Brosnan

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

~ Michael Gove

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.

~ Lenny Abrahamson

I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

~ Andy Warhol

Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

~ Dick Cavett

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

~ Bill Bradley

Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying, 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well, we all waited till that year, and we didn't get anything at all like that.

~ Robert J. Sawyer

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

~ Will Rogers

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

~ Walter Winchell

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

If you're sort of interested in politics but sort of upset about contemporary politics, it's kind of wonderful to read about periods who were very eloquent and admirable - generally. People are articulating ideas you can sympathize with or understand both sides of. Or at least feel like one side is saying the right things.

~ Whit Stillman

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

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.

~ John F. Kelly

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

~ Alicia Machado