Say Quotes

Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room.

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

I love New York... I think it's the best city in the world. As far as cities go, everything's there. I think it's so vibrant. I love the people, I think they're honest, in your face. If they don't like you, they'll say, 'Get out of my way,' if they like you they'll slap you on the back and support you. It's a very intoxicating environment to be in.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

I love it when these Internet dudes say to me, 'Hey man, we just want to be 'content neutral.'

You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Learn to say "I don't know." If used when appropriate, it will be often.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.