Quotes About Saying

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.'

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

She was a southern girl, which is the same as saying she was insane. All southern women are insane. Some are cold blooded killers and some are harmless eccentrics, but the best of the breed exhibit both of these characteristics and always the one you expect the least at the time you least expect it.

Saying what the Father is saying releases the creative nature and Presence of God into a situation to bring His influence and change.

My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

The faded engraving read: A Ma Vie de Coer Entier, which was a fifteenth-century French saying, "You Have My Whole Heart for My Whole Life.

I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

There's an old saying, you know, that if you scratch a secret, you'll find a thief.

What Mrs. Schuyler is saying, General Schuyler added, is that it is the Schuylers who would be honored by a union woth so brilliant and noble a personage as Colonel Hamilton.

To discuss endlessly what silly people mean when they say silly things may be amusing but can hardly be important.

Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told, and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment.

In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so." "I don't mind.

had learned what the saying meant at Spook School, and thought it was silly, as testicles were small, easy to remove, and easily injured.

As the Siberian saying goes: One hundred versts (roughly a hundred miles) is no distance. A hundred rubles isn't worthwhile money. And a hundred grams of vodka just makes you thirsty.

The Japanese have a saying that for every new food we try, we gain seven days of life. I may be immortal by now.

One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country saying.

Memory is like riding a trail at night with a lighted torch. The torch casts its light only so far, and beyond that is darkness. —Ancient Lakota saying

I don't want to be on a soapbox, but I feel like a lot of documentary filmmakers are part of the ancient tradition of writing down notes, of saying, 'Hey people, hey people!'

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.