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  • So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said, 'No, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.

    Eight   Years   Giving  
    "Staying on the Cutting Edge". Interview with Sam Varghese, www.theage.com.au. October 08, 2004.
  • It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

    John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.352
  • There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.

  • 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.

  • You kind of half-prepare a speech in your head, and then you get up there and then you end up saying nothing that was in your head before you went up there. It's a very weird thing. I never do award speeches too well.

    Awards   Half   Speech  
    Source: in.askmen.com
  • 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 (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.649, Delacorte Press
  • I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.

    Blow   Wind   Ears  
    Thomas De Quincey (1852). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And Suspiria de Profundis”, p.175
  • Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

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

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88
  • It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.

  • Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

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

    Gertrude Atherton (1908). “The Californians”, p.233, Library of Alexandria
  • My favorite scene on the show [The Office] is on the booze cruise when I finally get to talk to her and tell her, and I react exactly how I would react by saying nothing.

  • The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

  • You can't improve on saying nothing.

    Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”
  • Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.

    Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away”, p.101, St. Martin's Griffin
  • 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.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

  • I ain't affraid to let it out, i'm not affraid to take that fall, but i found beyond all doubt, you say more by saying nothing at all.

  • We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.

    War   Thinking   America  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.

    Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.126, Serpent's Tail
  • Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

  • To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

    "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.
  • There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

    Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”
  • Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

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

  • He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her.

    Forever   Soul   Matter  
  • you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.

    Senior   School   College  
    Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co
  • I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

    Thinking   Trying   Fans  
    "Actor Regina King: Divorce as a journey, staying a family and mind over matter". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her.

    Kings   Australia   Two  
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