Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bradley

You can talk about the past, but I want to talk about the future,

Martin Scorsese

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

Lee Child

I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

Laurie Lee

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

John Travolta

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

James Joseph Sylvester

I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloquent mathematician must, from the nature of things, ever remain as rare a phenomenon as a talking fish, and it is certain that the more anyone gives himself up to the study of oratorical effect the less will he find himself in a fit state to mathematicize.

James Hunter

To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.

Sheryl Swoopes

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

Shia LaBeouf

It's very weird because the 'It' guy usually is not the 'It' guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about.

Sheryl Sandberg

Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.

Sheryl Sandberg

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.

Shel Silverstein

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

Taraji P. Henson

I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with the different stories, and have all these layers to peel back.

Peggy Noonan

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

Paulo Coelho

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

Paulo Coelho

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

Paulo Coelho

Try doing something different every day-like talking to the person at the next table to you in a restaurant, visiting a hospital, putting your foot in a puddle, listening to what another person has to say, allowing the energy of love to flow freely, instead of putting it in a jug and standing it in a corner.

Marlon Brando

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

Marlon Brando

People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.

Marisha Pessl

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

Mariah Carey

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Megyn Kelly

What I don't like is talking points.

Megan McCafferty

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.

Max Lucado

Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

May Sarton

People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

Max Greenfield

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

Matthew Lesko

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

The first time I talked to him I thought he wasn't going to live.

Nate Burleson

I love hip-hop. I'm big into Jay-Z, Kanye, Little Wayne. Those are everyone's favorites, I know. I just like the fact that when they get on track and talk about whatever they're talking about, they have supreme confidence. That's pretty much what you need to have on the field. I like the way they approach their music, they feel like no one can touch them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.

John Green

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

John Ford

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.

John Flanagan

I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged. I did," he replied ruefully. "But while I was busy watching the ground, I hit that branch with my head. Broke it clean in two." Halt raised his eyebrows. "I assume you're not talking about your head," he muttered. Erak frowned at the suggestion. Of course not," he replied. More's the pity," Halt told him.