
“'Just say no' isn't enough unless there is something to say 'yes' to.”
White House press conference on Violence in Public Housing 8 June 1997 https://www.c-span.org/video/?86456-1/violence-public-housing
Towards Jeff Hardy. Used as a multiple meaning phrase referring to the fact that Hardy was contemplating hitting Punk, Hardy having yet to sign a new contract extension with WWE in real life, and Hardy's history of being unable to say no to drugs, also real life. July 3, 2009.
Friday Night SmackDown
“'Just say no' isn't enough unless there is something to say 'yes' to.”
White House press conference on Violence in Public Housing 8 June 1997 https://www.c-span.org/video/?86456-1/violence-public-housing
I Just Called to Say I Love You
Song lyrics, The Woman in Red (1984)
“Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.”
Source: Mortal Coil
“It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.”
"Very well thanks and how are you?"
"Say Goodbye" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Say Goodbye" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCLuE28J-WU (song on YouTube)
“It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.”
“Half of what I say is meaningless
But I say it just to reach you
Julia.”
"Julia" on The Beatles (1968); these lines were adapted from lines of Sand and Foam (1926) by Khalil Gibran: "Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you".
Lyrics
“It is impossible to say just what I mean!”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while If one, settling a
Pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all."
“I should say that the universe is just there, and that is all.”
BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Bertrand Russell v. Frederick Copleston (1948)
1940s