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Saying Nothing Quotes (page 2)

A. A. Milne quote: "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. A. A. Milne
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. Mary Wortley
Walter Winchell quote: "Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves..."
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. Walter Winchell
There is an old saying "well begun is half done" - 'tis a bad one. I would use instead, "Not begun at all till half done;" so according to that I have not begun my Poem and consequently (a priori) can say nothing about it. John Keats
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy War, and the orators who talk so much about going on no matter how long the War lasts and what it may mean, could see a case--to say nothing of 10 cases--of mustard gas in its early stages--could see the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great mustard-coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes--sometimes temporally, sometimes permanently--all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a... Vera Brittain
The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else.[S]he wanted only her own strawberry farm, the fragrance of the fields and the cedar trees, and to live simply in this place forever.[S]he had fallen into loving him long before she knew herself, though it occurred to her now that she might never know herself, that perhaps no one ever does, that such a thing might not be possible.[Y]ou should learn to say nothing that will... David Guterson
You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive. Alice Walker
I found out I was in love with you, winter before last," she said. "I wasn't going to say anything about it because - well, you know. If you'd felt anything like that for me, you'd have known I did. But it wasn't both of us. So there was no good in it. But then, when you told us you're leaving ... At first I thought, all the more reason to say nothing. But then I thought, that wouldn't be fair. To me, partly. Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody... Ursula K. Le Guin
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. Nicholas Mosley
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. Joe Eszterhas
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Propositions show what they say: tautologies and..."
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Paul Brown quote: "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. Paul Brown
Alison Krauss quote: "You say it best, when you say nothing at all."
You say it best, when you say nothing at all. Alison Krauss
John Ruskin quote: "It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying..."
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. John Ruskin
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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