Say Quotes

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life.

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.