Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Winona Ryder

I remember being 18, and my first boyfriend said to me, "Unless you're in the room, you don't know if it's true." We were talking about gossip.

William Safire

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

William S. Burroughs

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.

William Kunstler

When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

William Jennings Bryan

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Violette Leduc

We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

William Shawcross

You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.

William J. Clinton

I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.

William James

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

Will Forte

Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.

Sarah Silverman

Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.

Sarah Silverman

I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.

Samuel P. Huntington

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

I'm exhausted from not talking.

Samuel Butler

When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

Salvatore Ferragamo

Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about

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.

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.

Saul Williams

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

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.

Robin McKinley

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

Robert Rauschenberg

I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

Yvonne Strahovski

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