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I always think 12 times before saying anything. -- Brenda Blethyn
There's no point in saying anything but the truth. -- Amy Winehouse
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything. -- Bil Keane
I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room. -- Lou Reed
I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does. -- Doug Henning
Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice. -- Charles Barkley
I've learned I'm not lying by not saying anything, so I just don't say it anymore. -- Pink
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance. -- Annie Lennox
There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting. -- Craig Stevens
I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything. -- Nelsan Ellis
A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot. -- Bill Walton
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. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different. -- Garry Winogrand
If you really want to stab me do it without saying anything. -- Ma-Roo
Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything. -- Will Rogers
It's the quiet, humble guy that's not saying anything. That's the really dangerous one. -- Carlos Condit
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations. -- Andreas Vesalius
Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything. -- Teresa Medeiros
If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said. -- Michel de Montaigne
Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy. -- Carole King
Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever! -- Winston Churchill
If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Is any blogger out there saying anythingâ??do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times. -- Lindsey Graham
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I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad. -- Louis C. K.
No one is demonizing or even saying anything as intemperate as Donald Trump has said about blacks living in squalor conditions. -- Donna Brazile
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt. -- Marcus Aurelius
Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm. -- Edward Burns
True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything. -- Shunryu Suzuki
I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign. -- Jack Abramoff
In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything. -- Molly Parker
If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail. -- Joline Godfrey
No one is spreading any kind of rumors or saying anything about Donald Trump supporters or, for that matter, the supporters of Ted Cruz and everyone else. -- Donna Brazile
One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it. -- Dale Murphy
Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science. -- George Gaylord Simpson
I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead! -- Terry Pratchett
In a lot of things I'm reacting to a lot of things. I'm reacting to a lot people around me. Sometimes not necessarily saying anything but I just have to be thinking it. -- Morris Chestnut
Great movie stars like Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor who were capable of saying so much without saying anything at all merely by carrying themselves in a classic fashion that's timeless yet relatable. -- Lily Collins
[My mom's] funny that way, celebrating special occasions with blue food. I think it's her way of saying anything is possible. Percy can pass seventh grade. Waffles can be blue. Little miracles like that. -- Rick Riordan
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything. -- Boz Scaggs
Im not the type of person to point fingers at anybody, and I dont want anybody saying anything to me. There are situations where balls are bounced to your feet you dont say anything. -- Keyshawn Johnson
I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter. -- Ned Vizzini
In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything. -- Thomas Keating
The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me. -- John Lennon
I'm indifferent and it's a matter of wanting to stay away from the whole Michael Vick situation, whether he is involved or not. I'm not saying anything about dogfighting or anyone who might be involved in it. -- Jonathan Vilma
The words I AM are your sacred identification as God- your highest self. Take care how you use this terms because saying anything after I AM that's incongruent with God is really taking the Lord's name in vain! -- Wayne Dyer
There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand. -- Lawrence Lessig
Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me. -- Jojo Moyes
Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but encourages others to proliferate in reaction and in self-defense. Is anybody saying anything about this? -- Noam Chomsky
My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success. -- Wendy O. Williams
I'm certainly not saying anything new, and I'm not even saying anything all that different from what everyone else I know is saying right now - I'm saying what millions of people are saying. I'm just saying it publicly. -- Marianne Williamson
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I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107) -- Dorothy Allison
It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body. -- James Elkins
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past. -- Frank Knight
Love is when you can sit in front of each other for hours not saying anything, yet feel like you've had the best conversation possible. Love is when you can spend hours on end thinking about each other even when planets apart! -- David Hall
So, without saying anything to the others, it made its way to the farthest corner of the meadow and began to toast an imaginary muffin. That was always the best way to unwind when things got to be too much for it. -- Thomas M. Disch
I don't like not saying anything. I don't like having a wall between me and the audience. I want to break down that wall and communicate with the people in the room, 'cause we're there together and we're having a nice moment. -- Aurora Aksnes
There's no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there's always someone with an answer and there's nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you'd be punching morning noon and night. -- Frank McCourt
Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut. -- Tamora Pierce
He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too. -- Patricia Briggs
I think it's such a risky thing doing interviews. I try to limit the amount of interviews that I do because no one is that interesting especially when you're not really saying anything. And I don't particularly want to be an character in society or whatever. -- Robert Pattinson
The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored. -- Penn Jillette
I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out. -- Joshua Jackson
I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out." -- Joshua Jackson
If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our own standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything. -- Donald Davidson
The key to culture is it's a framework for making decisions. And if it's baked into your culture, people learn how to make decisions across that culture without you ever saying anything. You never have to really do anything except watch and promote and move people around. -- Keith Rabois
But I'm not saying anything because I've just noticed the brick. Or rather the lack of brick. Of course, some of the dark shapes on the floor probably are bricks, but they don't look like my brick. The one that can be up against the door. But isn't. -- Nicky Singer
A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement. -- Theodore Roosevelt
One of the least appealing aspects of modern presidential candidates is that, to avoid saying anything that might prove to be an embarrassing, costly blunder, they cling to a rigid set of talking points that reveal as little as possible about what they really think and who they really are. -- David Horsey
Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter. -- Veronica Roth
I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything. -- Rupert Friend
I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters. -- Ari Graynor
You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything. -- Mark Burnett
If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it. -- Thelma Ritter
It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard. -- Angela Ruggiero
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. -- Trey Parker
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?' -- Joseph Heller
I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that. -- Barbara Feldon
With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it. -- Trevor Moore
Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do. -- Fredric Brown
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything -- Aldous Huxley
I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak. -- Chrissie Hynde
What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything. -- Allen Tate
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you. -- Erica Jong
I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him. -- George Washington
Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool. -- Alma Guillermoprieto
We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying -- Stephen E. Ambrose
I'm just saying what I think about at the time. I don't make a point to do anything, really. -- Vince Staples
If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth. -- Neel Burton
Well, I'm not saying that America is a bad place or anything. I just think 9/11 needed to happen sooner or later. -- Zach Braff
I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods. -- Nikki Sixx
I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. -- Patti Smith
Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with. -- Earl Wilson
Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all. -- Viggo Mortensen
Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead. -- Frances Hardinge
I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India. -- Freida Pinto
A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God -- J. C. Ryle
You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work. -- Gene Simmons
Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do. -- Gloria Steinem
I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven. -- Bill Ayers
I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity. -- Tavi Gevinson
At Nature's Kitchen we take pride in saying that we wouldn't serve anything to your children that we wouldn't feed to our own children. -- Brenda Peterson
There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head. -- Daniel Handler
I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare. -- Harry Redknapp
Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it. -- Kenneth Patchen
I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things -- anything and everything I think and feel. -- Maria von Trapp
You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying. -- Anne Carson
If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything"." -- Serita Ann Jakes
Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it. -- Waris Dirie
I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true. -- Serena Williams
But I will never say anything about who they are, what teams they are on. I'm just saying there's some famous people, and I'm not the only one. -- Michael Sam
True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything". -- Serita Ann Jakes
I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved. -- Anjelica Huston
I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it. -- Will Wright
Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress. -- Doc Childre

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