Top 66 Reply Quotes

I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will not dignify such journalism with a reply or an answer. I never will.

I went through much deliberation on choosing my next TV role after ‘Reply 1988.’

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, ‘Just open your eyes.’

Now we’re e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

Even now, when I’m asked how I’m doing, I like to reply, ‘Pretty good. I’ve got all my fingers and both eyes.

Here’s a simple guideline: if five names or fewer are cc’d, just go nuts and hit ‘reply all.’ But if more than five folks appear in the cc line, pause. Give it a thought. Some people are promiscuous and cc dozens of people who don’t need to know each other’s business.

I learned playing cello in ‘Cantabile’ and Go in ‘Reply 1988.’ In ‘Moonlight Drawn by Clouds,’ I learned horse riding and Geomungo. It’s fun to learn new things.

People say, ‘I’m only suing for the principle of the thing,’ and I reply that I can’t give you principle – only money.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

One day Mani Sir called me to his office and narrated the script of ‘Raavan.’ He then asked me how good my Hindi is. When I told him that it’s quite good, he asked one of his assistant directors to talk to me in Hindi and I was asked only to reply in Hindi.

When someone asks ‘what’s the use of philosophy?’ the reply must be aggressive, since the question tries to be ironic and caustic. Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power.

When someone asks you, ‘What’s punk?’ my reply is, ‘If you have to ask, you’re never going to know.’

Apparently, there are as many as 880 spoken languages in India, out of which 31 languages have been given an official status. To hear, decode, process, understand, speak, wait for the next person to decode your message, process, understand and then reply is to have a conversation.

I’ve never written a children’s book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, ‘Children’s books?’ Maybe it’s something about my face.

I get home from work at six or seven. When I’m busy, I set my alarm for three, get out of bed at quarter past three. I have a cup of tea and read a magazine and take the dogs for a walk up the lane. Go through my text messages and reply to anything that needs it, then get my biking gear on ready to cycle to work.

We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl – when we looked at men sending messages to women – the very first word can have a tremendous… can have a very accurate prediction of whether you’re going to get a reply.

I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as ‘I’m cool, look at how many e-mails I get.’ That perception doesn’t scare me, because I know who I am.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Since when has delivering a fitting reply to a terror attack become politicisation of security?

On every birthday, I ask my wife, ‘What would you like this year?’ and her instant reply is, ‘Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!’ I’m always living in hope that one day she’ll say she just wants me!

Usually, I prefer not to clarify anything that is being talked about me, but when it goes out of limits, I reply.

I think it’s essential to engage with your followers. I always used to email bloggers, and no one ever replied, so I try to reply to every comment and question, and although sometimes I regret it when I’m sat on Instagram til 3 A.M., it’s worth it.

Fortunately, I’ve done so many interviews that I’ve become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.

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

My co-stars call me selfish. They say, ‘You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.’ I reply, ‘I can’t help it; it’s what got me where I am.’

When the journalists asked Gene, ‘Why didn’t you marry the beautiful girl in ‘The Woman in Red’?’ he would always reply, ‘I did!’

If you’re ever bcc’d, do not go near ‘reply all.’ ‘Bcc’ is ‘blind carbon copy.’ It means you’re a fly on the wall, dude! If you hit reply all, it’s beyond bad etiquette to out the person who gave you the superpower of invisibility. It’s like screaming, ‘I’m a spy!’

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them to ask for a job. Within five minutes, I got a reply from the then three- star Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier.

I get a ton of scam emails. But instead of deleting them, I decided to hit reply.

I don’t want to get embroiled in any controversy. At the same time, I want to take part in those conversations that are meaningful. I have not entrusted anyone to reply on behalf or react to any issue pertaining to me.

When you get a co-star with whom you can do some give-and-take, it becomes like one of those lawn tennis matches where you give a great reply to a serve.

When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.

If terrorism tries to dent the security of this country and its sovereignty, we will give it a befitting reply.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can’t reply to your smile. It’s a denial of identity.

If one person reaches out to me, who am I not to reach back? Even if it takes me a year to reply, they do get that message and they feel it.

People come up to me and say, ‘Can I just thank you for writing my life?’ And I reply, ‘I’m glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.’

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.

Initially when I was working on TV, people would ask why I’m not trying for films. My reply was that I was enjoying TV and had no reason to shift.

Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, ‘No comments.’

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn’t use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

You have to live with your decisions every day. Why live with one you’re uneasy with? ‘Because it’ll make you money’ is a common reply. But I don’t think that’s good enough.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’

Nobody in the developing world is going to take, as an answer to their aspirations, the developed world’s reply: ‘Sorry, you can’t; we’ve already used it all up.’ To earn the right to look the developing world in the eye and start this conversation, we need a reassessment of how we live and what we want.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a ‘do-not-reply’ address. It’s ridiculous! Don’t you want your customers to reply to you?

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

I told them that I cannot lie when a writer asks me what’s my feeling not doing the game. I said I have to be honest. And my honest reply to you is, obviously, I’m a loyal team player. I will go where my bosses tell me to go.

Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: ‘I can’t think of anyone I’d rather write for.’

I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: ‘Hey, there’s a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!’

Nowadays, people don’t ask you how you are, they say, ‘Are you busy?’ meaning, ‘Are you well?’ If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust ‘Busy!’ to which the person will reply ‘Good!’