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Saying Quotes


"Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along."


"I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking."


"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."


"Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much."


"I keep saying the word "weird" over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it."


"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."


"I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going."


"I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected."


"I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that."


"This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed."


"While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying."


"I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing."


"My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years."


"Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that."


"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."


"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not."


"I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet."


"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."


"The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned."


"Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?"


"No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell."


"But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky."


"Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal."


"So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself."


"Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral."


"I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me."


"I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying."


"Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake."


"As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is."


"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"


"When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries."


"It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?"


"Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys."
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