Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sally Ride

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

Van Jones

The Whitehouse is talking different because we are walking different

Tyson Gay

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

Robert Jay Lifton

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

Rodman Philbrick

I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.

Rocco DiSpirito

Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.

Robertson Davies

It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion...

Robert Louis Stevenson

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

Wesley Clark

Certainly there’s a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they would be talking to Al Qaeda, that there would be some Al Qaeda there or that Saddam Hussein might even be, you know, discussing gee, I wonder since I don’t have any scuds and since the Americans are coming at me, I wonder if I could take advantage of Al Qaeda? How would I do it? Is it worth the risk? What could they do for me?

Walt Whitman

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

Sarah Dessen

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

Sarah Dessen

It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.

Roseanne Barr

I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing.

Rod Laver

I like to let my racket do the talking.

Robin Quivers

I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing.

Saint Augustine

Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

Winston Churchill

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

Will Rogers

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.

Will Rogers

We do more talking progress than we do progressing.

Zora Neale Hurston

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Yvonne Strahovski

I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault,

William Stafford

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Walter Hill

I'm always happy to talk to somebody; it's flattering that people remember your movies. Especially some movie that you did, for Christ's sake, almost 35 years ago, or what's especially pleasant is if you're talking about some movie that you did 35 years ago and they're 20 years old.

William Julius Wilson

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

Yo-Yo Ma

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

Yogi Berra

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking.

Tracy Chapman

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

Sam Brownback

If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That's insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.

Sam Altman

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

Ryan Cayabyab

The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.

Ryan Giggs

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

Roy Ayers

But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.