Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Ringo Starr

I don't like talking. It's how I'm built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don't mind talking or smiling, it's just I don't do it very much. I haven't got a smiling face or a talking mouth.

Tim Robbins

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

Lenny Bruce

I was a Jew talking about Goyim religion. If I had just stuck to Moses, everything would have been cool. But, copping to being part of the whole Christ murder conspiracy got everyone goose-stepping again.

Laurie Colwin

And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

Laurie Anderson

All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.

Latrell Sprewell

Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

Laura Bell Bundy

I actually met Larson [Paine] on Larchmont in Los Angeles. He was eating and he stopped me because I was massaging my larynx. I was doing a show and trying to loosen up my throat. He had sort of this southern vibe about eating alone and talking to people. And it was funny because I had just having eaten with Larry O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin.

Laura Bush

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

Lara Flynn Boyle

I love talking about myself.

Thom Yorke

I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.

Thom Yorke

If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.

Thierry Henry

People are talking about me more than they talk about Eastenders.

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

Terry Pratchett

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

Terry Pratchett

It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

Terry Pratchett

Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.

Selena Gomez

I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

Sean Kinney

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

Si Robertson

My wife asked me about that: "What happened to your beard?" I said, "What are you talking about?" She said, "Hey, the right side is shorter than the left." I said, "You gotta be kidding me." So I went in there and looked, and I combed it out and I said, "I don't know, that's just the way it grows."

Sharleen Spiteri

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

Shantel VanSanten

I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.

Lewis Thomas

I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.

Leonard Lauder

I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

Laura Prepon

When you work with an actor, it's cool because they know what it's like to be directed themselves. Jodie directed a scene with me and Taylor that was when she starts talking to me again in prison and it's our first actual confrontation that we have, where some stuff comes out.

Larry Ellison

Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

Larry David

I don't like talking to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with.

Larry David

I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

Kylie Minogue

My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster. But I don't discount love when I'm talking about not getting married. I could... it's just something I haven't wanted to do yet.

Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

Philip Glass

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.