Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Young

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

Neil Young

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

Rachel Maddow

If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.

Rachel Maddow

I have learned when two Republicans are talking about legalizing drugs to shut up.

Nic Pizzolatto

And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

Noah Hawley

Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there's this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud.

Noam Chomsky

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.

Glenn Close

I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.

Harry Shum, Jr.

It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh.

George H. W. Bush

Know what you're talking about.

George Harrison

I've been the same all along. I talk when I feel like it and I shut up when I don't feel like talking.

H. Rap Brown

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

Jean de la Bruyere

We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

Kristin Scott Thomas

'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!

Moliere

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

Molly Ivins

Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what's wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.

Mike Shinoda

I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up

Nathan Fielder

In my personal life, I will do whatever it takes to make a situation comfortable if I sense - if I'm talking to someone [and] I sense there's a silence, I'll try to fill that gap. It makes me very anxious when things get uncomfortable.

Nathan Fillion

I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

Ken Salazar

We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.

Ken Adam

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

Kathy Mattea

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

Kate Bush

I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it's my work that does the talking rather than me.

Julian Casablancas

No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

Julian Assange

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

Julian Assange

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

Ken Jennings

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

Ken Kesey

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

Katie Couric

Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues.

Kim Gandy

We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services -- and there aren't alternatives.

Kevin Powers

It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was said. It wasn’t much in the way of comfort, but everything has a little failure in it, and we still make do somehow.

Kathy Griffin

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.

Kristen Stewart

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.