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Say Quotes by Nick Hornby
- A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants…
- We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful,…
- Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
- Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".
- My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and…
- Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can…
- And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other…
- [about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when…
- It takes a child to say the unsayable.
- She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.
- She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is…
- You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.
- I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"…
- I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
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- I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being… — Neil Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash