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.”
Andrew Cuomo (1957) 56th Governor of New York
White House press conference on Violence in Public Housing 8 June 1997 https://www.c-span.org/video/?86456-1/violence-public-housing
Stevie Wonder (1950) American musician
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.”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Mortal Coil
“It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.”
Sam Levenson (1911–1980) American journalist
Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter
"Very well thanks and how are you?" <br class="br">"Say Goodbye" (song) <br class="br">Song lyrics <br class="br">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.”
Sam Levenson (1911–1980) American journalist
“Half of what I say is meaningless
But I say it just to reach you
Julia.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
"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!”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
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.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Bertrand Russell v. Frederick Copleston (1948)
1940s
