Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Brooks

If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.

Albert Camus

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

Annie Baker

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

Annie Leibovitz

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

Anna Quindlen

Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?

Chuck Mangione

Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

Andrew Greeley

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Anthony Bourdain

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

Andy Rooney

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Andy Stanley

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

Andy Warhol

I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

Ann Romney

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.

Angela Braly

People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

Analeigh Tipton

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.

Anatole France

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

Anne Enright

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking

Renee Fleming

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

Thornton Wilder

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

Thomas Otway

Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.

Timothy Dalton

I've never liked talking about my personal life, ever. Ever since I was 20, I've lived in a kind of public arena; and there have been stalkers, blackmailers, death threats, physical violence and threats to friends of mine, colleagues of mine, to myself.

Robert Morley

We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.

Robert Greenwald

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Rickey Henderson

I love talking about baserunning.

Richard Armitage

Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike.

Raymond Carver

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

Tariq Ramadan

I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

T. Boone Pickens

I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

T. S. Eliot

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

Scott Westerfeld

Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

Ray Romano

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

Ray Kurzweil

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.