Say Anything famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I was really happy. I kept talking about myself, and didn't hear anything about Nana. But now that I know you better; I know you wouldn't say anything.
-- Ai Yazawa -
I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.
-- Aidan Gillen -
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.
-- Aleister Crowley -
If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
Don't say anything. Just act cool," I whispered. Mavkel started to shiver. "Like this?" it asked. "No, I mean act calm." Mavkel stopped shivering.
-- Alison Goodman -
I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.
-- Allen Carr -
I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.
-- Amy Heckerling -
I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.
-- Amy Schumer -
There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.
-- Andy Rooney -
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
-- Andy Rooney -
If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.
-- Angie Harmon -
I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself.
-- August Wilson -
I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.
-- Babyface -
But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.
-- Barney Frank -
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
-- Ben Whishaw -
One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
-- Bill Nighy -
I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.
-- Boy George -
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
-- Brian Tracy -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-- Camille Claudel -
The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
-- Carl Everett -
You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.
-- Cassandra Clare -
So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.
-- Chad Hugo -
The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.
-- Charles Baxter -
The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.
-- Charles Fleischer -
In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
Never be afraid to do what's right. If no one ever says anything, nothing ever changes.
-- Chris Kluwe -
This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.
-- Connie Chung -
But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?
-- Cormac McCarthy -
You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.
-- Cristina Garcia -
If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
-- Dane Cook -
It's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her or control her. She is yours because you can say anything to her, whenever you need to. And she can do the same, whenever she needs to.
-- David Levithan -
Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
I'm in a perfect position. I don't want to be more famous and I can't lose sponsors, so I can say anything I want.
-- Doug Stanhope -
Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.
-- Elizabeth Scott -
You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.
-- Eminem -
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 -
I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
-- Ernestine Rose -
If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.
-- Erwin Schrodinger -
I may not be able to say all I think, but I am not going to say anything I do not think.
-- Eugene V. Debs -
If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
-- Flip Wilson -
We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.
-- Francis Chan -
And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know.
-- Frank Bruno -
The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.
-- Frank Stella -
Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together. I am not afraid, he said to himself. "I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.
-- Garth Nix -
You can include me, too." William blew Olivia a kiss, and her cheeks heated with a blush. "No need to say anything. I already know what words are perched on your tongue. Stop me if I'm wrong, but my getting to know you will be your pleasure.
-- Gena Showalter -
In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
-- George Kennedy -
I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.
-- George Lopez -
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
-- George McGovern -
I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.
-- George Washington -
It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them
-- Georges Cuvier -
When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.
-- Greg LeMond -
And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.
-- Han Nolan -
The bankers' Satanic Conspiracy is the source of anti Semitism. The sooner Jews rise up to oppose it; the sooner anti-Semitism will end.. Obviously, many Christians are involved. When I criticize Rockefeller, no one says anything about 'anti-Christianism.'
-- Henry Makow -
I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
-- Howard Barker -
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.
-- Howard Hodgkin -
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
-- Howard Nemerov -
I found it to be kind of ironic, because I’m white, therefore I’m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - who’s white and won it many times - and they didn’t seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me.
-- Iggy Azalea -
Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.
-- Isocrates -
Tupac was just so passionate about what he believes in and not afraid to say anything.
-- J. Cole -
You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.
-- J. Willard Gibbs -
When she didn't say anything more, he frowned, thinking this was the pair of them in a nutshell: Standing three feet away from each other and being separated by miles.
-- J.R. Ward -
I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
-- Jack Kemp -
If you say three things, you don't say anything.
-- James Carville -
I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.
-- Jason Newsted -
I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.
-- Jayne Mansfield -
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him. What?' Ronald said. I didn't say anything.' You're breathing heavy.
-- Jennifer Crusie -
As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.
-- Jerry Lawler -
I won't say anything, but you should tell them. It's not weakness to admit you're not perfect.
-- Jess Bowen -
When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.
-- Jill Hennessy -
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
-- Jim Morrison -
Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
-- Joan of Arc -
Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
-- Joan of Arc -
Don't ever say anything negative about yourself.
-- Joel Osteen -
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.
-- John Hay -
I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'
-- John Lydon -
If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
-- Johnny Cash -
You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.
-- Jon Ronson -
What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.
-- Julius Charles Hare -
I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It's very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.
-- Karl Ove Knausgard -
I can criticize your religion all I want, and you can criticize mine. I don't like this whole climate of, 'You can't ever say anything bad about the group I'm in, cause every group is untouchable.' We can all criticize each other and engage in debate all we want.
-- Kathy Griffin -
The men I find myself attracted to are the ones who don't say anything and are quite shy.
-- Katie Price -
Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.
-- Kevin Sorbo -
Im not the type of person to point fingers at anybody, and I dont want anybody saying anything to me. There are situations where balls are bounced to your feet you dont say anything.
-- Keyshawn Johnson -
Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything
-- Khaled Hosseini -
So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.
-- Kim Novak -
I'm never going to say anything about who I'm dating unless I'm married or engaged.
-- Kirsten Dunst -
It's very difficult to say anything in Icelandic. I can say "takk," which means "thank you." That's about all I learned.
-- Kit Harington -
If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.
-- Knute Rockne -
Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
-- Leonardo DiCaprio
