Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Thomas

Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used

Leo Ornstein

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

Leo Kottke

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

Lauren Groff

But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.

Lady Gaga

I don't like talking to celebrities.

Lewis Black

I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast.

Lewis Carroll

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

Joseph Campbell

Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second best are misunderstood : myths, which are metaphoric attempts to point to the way toward the first. And the third best have to do with history, science, biography, and so on. The only kind of talking that can be understood is this last kind.

Joseph Campbell

And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.

Karl Pilkington

Normally you can't hear you're own voice because you're talking over it.

Joy Williams

As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

Joy Behar

You can see a lot of politics on a lot of different channels. I'm not interested, really, in talking in some wonky conversation about politics, though. It's not my speed. I'm not interested in the ins and outs of health care.

Joy Behar

I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.

Joyce Brothers

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand.

Justin Bieber

At concerts it makes me happy to see my Beliebers talking to each other because i made them family.

Jules Renard

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy, England is talking about splitting with Wales and Scotland and England. And it goes on and on and on.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

Julius Peppers

How can you say you want to be somewhere when you're not really sure if they want you there because they're not even talking to you?

Ouida

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

Kanye West

If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?

Paul Krugman

I'm especially baffled by the idea of taking insurance against a U.S. default. If America defaults, we're talking about a chaotic world - Mad Max, more or less - in which case, who imagines that insurance claims will be honored?

Patrick Stewart

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Patrick Fugit

One day, youre a nobody, and the next, youre in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

Ottessa Moshfegh

I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

Paul McCartney

Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

Patty Duke

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say

Paulette Goddard

Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.

Paullina Simons

Tatiana...you and I had only one moment..." said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another life could have still been possible." He kissed her lips. "Do you know what I'm talking about?" When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street. "I know that moment," whispered Tatiana.

Pauline Kael

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

Paul Valery

We must always apologize for talking painting.

Karen Armstrong

I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.

Kate McKinnon

I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.