Quotes About Saying

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

His low, dark voice curled in her ear. "There's a saying we have about whisky: Slow fire makes sweet malt.

Kuchi zamishi is a Japanese saying. It's the act of eating because your mouth is lonely

it's cold enough to freeze the nuts off a brass monkey," Mikey said. The kids giggled. "Mikey said nuts," Nina said. Kate held up a hand, the sign for silence. "The saying comes from the Civil War days, when the cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they'd crack and break off. Breaking the nuts off the brass monkey. Get it?

That is not a remarkable thing to say, but it is a remarkable thing to have in one's memory.

Don't offer me advice; give me money.

When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

We have a saying in Italy. Once a toy is broken, you can't fix it. You must toss it into the furnace and find a new one.

One popular saying was, "The boy who goes into medicine is too lazy for farm or shop, too stupid for the Bar, and too immoral for the pulpit.

[Optimism] is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

Yes, I totally would date a fan! I get this question a lot, but I'm always saying yes.

With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen.

Tibble, can you possibly be saying that you've had this letter in your office since my father and mother died six months ago?

A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you're the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people - and I think that it's always quite satisfying to do that.

Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.

Sometimes what seems like setting a boundary - saying no - is actually a cop out, an inverted way of saying yes. The challenge is to get past the fear and say yes.

I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo .

The only consolation of saying goodbye to someone you love is the glimmer of hope that someday after that goodbye there will be another hello.

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

Mark Twain was credited with saying, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

I felt ridiculous," Prowse says of Vader's paternity revelation. "I thought I was saying one thing and here they have me saying another.

THERE IS an old saying that in Belfast it rains five days out