Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carl Black

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

Jim Parsons

It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.

George Lopez

When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

George Lucas

I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types.

Emily Oster

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

Emily Mortimer

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

Emily Post

Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.

Elliot Perlman

As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.

Elliott Abrams

When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

Elizabeth Fishel

What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then - with great forgiveness and fortitude - dismissing them.

John Coyle

As soon as you start talking about Scouting, there's an immediate connection and brotherhood.

Joel Osteen

Instead of talking yourself out of your future start talking yourself into it.

Joel Osteen

If you'll spend time praying for people instead of talking about them, you'll get better results.

Jimmy Page

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

Loudon Wainwright III

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

Madeleine M. Kunin

When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

Tariq Ramadan

I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

T. Boone Pickens

I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

T. S. Eliot

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

Scott Westerfeld

Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

Ray Romano

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

Ray Kurzweil

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

Rani Mukerji

I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.

Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Tracy Pollan

I never questioned I would have any trouble doing what I wanted to do. I'm not talking about getting to a certain position - or to success. It was just that I knew I wanted to act, and that I would make my living that way. Having the unconditional support of your parents is really freeing.

Verne Troyer

If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

Rodrigo Rato

We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

Robin Williams

They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it.

Robin Ince

You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that's not a balance, that's misleading and it's just wrong.

Robert Redford

I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"

Richard Paul Evans

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst

Richard Wilbur

That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.