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Saying Quotes


"I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it."


"You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you."


"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."


"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"


"Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house."


"Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality."


"I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!"


"Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker."


"Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying."


"A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did."


"Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial."


"The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying."


"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."


"I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it."


"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."


"I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself."


"At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying."


"I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'."


"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'."


"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."


"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."


"This is about Floridians saying what's most important to them and making sure that we create an agenda that we can drive and deliver back in Washington, D.C. So it's very exciting."


"When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him."


"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."


"If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there."


"When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away."


"I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying."


"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."


"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."


"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""


"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."


"I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch."
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