Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Swift

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Jonathan Nolan

I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to tell stories and so you hope that they will have resonance for people and for the kind of things you're talking about.

Jonathan Sacks

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things...

Jonathan Safran Foer

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits....

Napoleon Hill

When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.

Norman Reedus

I'm more of a listener than a talker.

Oscar de la Renta

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

Orson Welles

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

All I'll say is that we're going to talk about the future.

Elizabeth Smart

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

Eric Hoffer

You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

Eric Bana

I enjoy just being cocooned in production and it's completely different to your other life that you have. I enjoy that. I enjoy being on the set and hanging out and talking to whoever we're working with and just being in the moment.

Emmett Shear

People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void.

Peter Mayhew

You've got to be on the toes, ... You've got to know what you're talking about.

Nick Saban

And my wife told me once, 'I'll never talk to you again,'

Ned Yost

All we're talking about is a third of an inning,

All we do is talk about how our teams did each week.

All this consolidation could rekindle talks between everybody.

Jimmy Carter

We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

John Cage

When I hear what we call ‘music,’ it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic — here on Sixth Avenue, for instance — I don’t have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound I don’t need sound to talk to me.

John C. Maxwell

Negative talking is contagious.

Emile Hirsch

Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

Ellis Peters

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

The day after (Hurricane Katrina) hit, we were talking about doing something.

Tony Blair

Enough of talking. It is time now to do.

Simone de Beauvoir

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

Simon Sinek

When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.

Rick Riordan

Calm down, Horus said. "Don't tell me to calm down!" Bast frowned. "I didn't." "Talking to him!" I pointed at my forehead.

Rick Riordan

I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.

Rick Riordan

She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.

Swami Vivekananda

We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right.

Robert Anthony

You are walking, talking evidence of your beliefs.