Top 1200 Saying Nothing Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.

Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

Going away to prison was nothing, I'm just saying, compared to losing my mom.

A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

With 'Break The Night,' each verse is saying, 'Nothing's going right today; nothing ever does.' It's about that kind of repetition, it's that kind of mantra you can get in your mind when you're depressed or down, when it's become like a hamster on a wheel - it's very difficult to break.

The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

Let's look at what Donald Trump is now [in November 2016] saying. He's saying he wants to repeal and replace ObamaCare. He is also saying maybe that if you have a pre-existing condition, you'll be able to buy insurance.

What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

There's nothing wrong with women saying that we can be ambitious and that we can want the same things that men have traditionally wanted.

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. Some Latino poets who barely speak English and Asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. It was luck nad being in the right place. I wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

I can rippity rap, lyrical miracle all day, but if you don't have a message behind it and you not saying nothing, it doesn't make sense.

Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings.

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

Nothing lights a fire under you like somebody saying, 'You're not going to be able to do it.'

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.

There's nothing worse than someone saying 'wear this' and it not being you.

I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Just having people saying no to racism on a commercial changes nothing.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

I don't remember saying nothing about me crossing over. I did R&B collaborations but I never tried to do no pop stuff.

Of course, it's hard to get interested in the whole idea of government. Nothing ever changes, especially people saying 'nothing ever changes,' despite the fact their kid now has a free nursery place and their aunt was forced to work despite having dementia.

What is deemed "unlikeable" in Washington is actually standing up to Washington and saying no, saying "The emperor has no clothes," saying "We made promises to the people who elected us; let's do that."

I have learned that nothing gets readers so fired up as saying something everyone knows is true.

When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.

There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.

Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you'll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq. It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known.

The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his metaphors? Through his metaphors, he risks saying it partially and obscurely, and risks saying nothing at all. But the risk must be taken, for direct statement leads to abstraction and threatens to take us out of poetry altogether.

There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.

I'm saying nothing new that Dave Pasquesi is really good at what he does.

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated. But this says nothing about their causation.

Sometimes I hear people saying, 'Nothing has changed.' Come and walk in my shoes.

There's nothing harder than going on TV and saying something that you don't believe. I don't do that anymore.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

When Marlee [Matlin] won her Oscar, she said, "and I just want to thank my parents." When I was saying those words for her, I knew my parents were in the audience. I was saying it for her and a little bit for myself, even though I wasn't saying it in sign language and they didn't understand what I was saying.

This saying is both true and terse: There's nothing bad but might be worse.

I'm not saying my own looks don't give the game away. Nothing I can do about that anymore. A nip and tuck ain't gonna do it.

Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.