Saying Quotes - page 88

I have the habit of always saying thank you to police and guards who watch us. (Ruth Westheimer)

I hear you younger people saying how many friends they have on the Internet. That's nonsense. That's not friends, that's acquaintances. The word 'friendship' has lost its significance.

Ruth Westheimer

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

Simon Van Booy

Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

Simon Sinek

I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.

Sara Shepard

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!

Cecily von Ziegesar

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

Cynthia Ozick

It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter.

Scott Belsky

Carried away. He got a little carried away. This is like saying Hitler was a tad aggressive.

Sophie Kinsella

We all think that this relationship thing is a game out here. All I'm saying to women is, "Okay. If it's a game, here are the rules that we play by". (Steve Harvey)

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.

Stewart O'Nan

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

Suze Orman

You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?

T.A. Barron

Life... becomes an anomalous puzzle that cannot be "explained" until scientists in laboratories find a way to animate the dead matter that is the normal condition of things. This amounts to saying that life has no "place" in the world until men-the gender that originally dominated the world and still does-can create it... in a laboratory and express it in a formula. Only then will we "understand" what life is.

Theodore Roszak

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

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

Tim Burton

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.

Tim O'Reilly

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.

Tim Robbins

To this day, she's still sad. Because there's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I'm just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn't hurt me at all.

Tom Perrotta

When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you. (William Boyd)

It sounds like they're saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That's a contradiction.

Philip K. Dick

Time to get up,” he informed her. "Don't you hear the Almighty bellowing in the living room?” "What's he saying?” Marsha murmured crossly. "Nothing in particular. Repent or suffer eternal damnation. The usual tribal tub-thumping.

Philip K. Dick

Then shall it come to pass the saying that is written,” a voice said. "Death is swallowed up. In victory.” Perhaps only Fred heard it. "Because,” the voice said, "as soon as the writing appears backward, then you know which is illusion and which is not. The confusion ends, and death, the last enemy, Substance Death, is swallowed not into the body but up-in victory. Behold, I tell you the sacred secret now: we shall not all sleep in death.

Philip K. Dick

When you say: The simple truth is this, and then you pause, and then you finish the sentence, people stop, and they think specifically about what you're saying. And it's, in essence, trying to boil it down to something that's very understandable and meaningful.

Frank Luntz

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