I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones. - Marc Andreessen After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement. - Timothy Garton Ash What is a rebel? Someone who says no. But saying no does not mean giving up: it also means saying yes, with every gesture. - Albert Camus Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. - Josh Billings The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair You know those times when an opportunity comes up and you hear yourself in some voice you hardly recognize saying yes? Like some imposter had invaded your throat, thumped on your vocal chords, and made a decision for you before you even ...

I have a confession." "Oh?" "I can't get you off my mind." His statement robbed her of words. Heat spread down the nape of her neck. He was saying too much. - Ted Dekker I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it. - Gil Gerard Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. - Robert Greenleaf I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you're a kid and you think you've found a soul mate in the new boy down the street and you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship and so act as you don't normally do and a lot more openly than you may even want to. - Philip Roth

Because when I look at you, I forget everything. I lose all track of what I'm saying or doing. I can see only your eyes. - Jennifer Ashley Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task. - Marcus Aurelius Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition. - Samuel Beckett Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time. - Bo Bennett It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're say...

It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing. - Douglas Adams I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to. - Lee Child Elli couldn't help it, she had to. She smiled before saying, "Nothing much, but Shea?" "Yeah?" he asked wearily as she smirked up at him. "I'll never break your heart. I'll never make you cry," she continued to sing the chorus of the well known Backstreet Boys song as Shea turned beet red with embarrassment. "Grace, I swear I'm going to kill you!" Shea yelled. - Toni Aleo It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. - John Ruskin Beckett, you're doing this for...

If the world ends tomorrow, understand that I regret saying no. - Alex Adams It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing. - Douglas Adams I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to. - Lee Child We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory. - Paulo Coelho Elli couldn't help it, she had to. She smiled before saying, "Nothing much, but Shea?" "Yeah?" he asked wearily as she smirked up at him. "I'll never break your heart. I'll never make you cry," she continued to sing the chorus of the well known Backstreet Boys song as Shea turned beet red with embarrassment. "Grace, I swear...

Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He'd been unhappy too, of course. It went without saying, his unhappiness. He'd put a lot of energy into it. - Margaret Atwood Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered. - Douglas Coupland Haiku sounds like I'm Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello. - Ellen Degeneres Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that ...

Dor shook his head. "The phrase. What does it mean?" Sarah wondered if he was kidding. "Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you're saying goodbye and it's like no time passed at all?" His eyes drifted. He liked it. "Time flies." "With you," she added. - Mitch Albom All I was afraid of is saying good-bye. - Mitch Albom Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy - Jodi Picoult A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another. - Cassandra Clare Mizpah ," he said. She blinked at him, a little dazed. "What?" "A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another. - Cas...

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument. - Douglas Adams He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name. - Cassandra Clare It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. - Plato Men are like dogs, Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch. - Lisa Kleypas You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say i...

It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some kind of beating or another, men saying and doing fantastic things for the sake of getting another man to smash his face. - Matt Bondurant Saying and doing are two things. - Matthew Henry Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life. - Susan Hill You know, no matter how cool some guys think they are, when it comes to some girls, it's like they lose their mind. They start saying and doing really stupid stuff - Julie Hockley Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. - Iris Murdoch

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument. - Douglas Adams I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to. - Lee Child 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 Izzy. My sister. She told me you liked me. Liked me, liked me." " Liked you, liked you?" Magnus buried his grin in the cat's fur. "Sorry. Are we twelve now? I don't recall saying anything to Isabelle.. - Cassandra Clare He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her a...

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. - Stephen Colbert Helen decided that the saying about "time healing all wounds" was a bunch of bull and probably only worked for people with very poor memories. The time she's spent apart from Lucas hadn't healed anything. The distance only made her miss him more. - Josephine Angelini I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it doesn't bother me a little bit, I'd be lying to you. - Carmelo Anthony My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message. - Christian Bale When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it wo...