Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.
You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we’ve taken on a role or we’re acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.
To see that I have this huge platform now, and so many people are listening to what I have to say, it really makes me want to orientate toward something that would really educate people, create awareness, do something more than just show them a cute outfit or what I’m having for lunch.
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
You can still say whatever you want to say on social media, but you have to be willing to stand by your words.
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a… very brutal disciplinarian.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it – but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
I come from a rare place. It’s a different culture, different atmosphere, police crooked. Different emojis, and when I say emojis, I mean personalities.
This confidence is not something that happens overnight. I have been working on it for a long time. I look in the mirror and do affirmations: ‘You are bold. You are brilliant. You are beautiful.’ If my lower pooch is really popping out that day, I look at it and say, ‘Pooch, you are cute!’
You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.
I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.
Food is a lot of people’s therapy – when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It’s releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.
A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you’re talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn’t say anything about it. Then the liar isn’t sure which lies are compromised.
My characters are always unlucky in love. It’s annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it’s why I play such damaged people when I’m not particularly damaged myself, I would say.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
I was in a mental hospital. That’s all I wanna say. I don’t wanna say anything more.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
Don’t believe the hype. I don’t care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don’t care how much they say you’re great, don’t believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you’re supposed to do.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Expect the unexpected, is what I’d say about ‘Taboo.’
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?
I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.
I’ve never met an animal I didn’t like, and I can’t say the same thing about people.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
It’s fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don’t care what you say, this is my heaven.
People say, ‘We remember the good times.’ Well I remember the bad times.
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
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.
Can you say that in 20 years people would still use the iPhone? Maybe not. Maybe we’d have a new product or something more innovative. What I can say today is that, in 20 years, I’m quite convinced that people will still drink Dom Perignon.
For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
It’s a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It’s not the truth I’m here to say. You know, don’t judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don’t care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible – to live in the truth, as I say – to get out of the lie.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
People say it’s not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, ‘Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.’
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
I always say don’t make plans, make options.
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ‘when!’
I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.
I’m a fabulous date, I make sure I look good, I like hearing what a guy has to say and I make sure the evening is a real laugh. I like to laugh.
I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ’em and I could deliver with the best of ’em.
My style changes every day. I would say its casual chic.
All I have to say is: Jessica Simpson is the most beautiful woman on the planet!
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
I am very happy to say I look just like my dad. But mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
