Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 Hazlitt

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Walter Mosley

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

Walter Raleigh

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

Waka Flocka Flame

My watch say I made it, my chains say I'm rich. Diamonds in my mouth got me talking cash s**t.

Yanis Varoufakis

Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.

William P. Leahy

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

Zygmunt Bauman

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

Robert Morley

We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.

Robert Greenwald

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Rickey Henderson

I love talking about baserunning.

Rian Johnson

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

Red Barber

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

Rebecca Hall

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

Rob Bell

When I talk about the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, I'm talking about our facing that which most terrifies us about ourselves, embracing it and fearing it no longer, refusing to allow it to exist separate from the rest of our being, resting assured that we are loved and we belong and we are going to be just fine.

Richard Pryor

To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up... Your muscles trick you; they did me.

Richard Rohr

The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine.

Tucker Max

Corporate tweets are like one robot talking to another.

Tucker Carlson

I very much like "Canada, the adults are talking" stance.

Tamora Pierce

Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry

Swami Vivekananda

Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.

Roy Spencer

Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there's a consensus now on global warming or the science has been settled, but you have to ask them, what is there a consensus on? Because it really makes a difference. What are you talking about? The only consensus I`m aware of is that it's warmed in the last century. They completely ignore the fact that there's this thing called the Oregon petition that was signed by 19,000 professionals and scientists who don't agree with the idea that we are causing climate change.

Rosario Dawson

As an advocate to end violence against women, I have come to learn that the shame surrounding domestic violence is a barrier to talking about the issue. #‎ PurplePurse provides victims and those who support the cause with information and resources they need to take the necessary actions to break the vicious cycle with confidence.

Ron White

I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.

Rumi

Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.

Rumi

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

Rumi

Empathy is even better than talking in one language

Tom Berenger

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders

Todd Helton

We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.

Steve Case

We need that same mentality in philanthropy, trying things, taking risks, recognizing the first try, maybe the second try, maybe the third try won't work. But if you stay at it and you're learning, you're talking to others, and you're learning together, eventually you'll break through and see the kind of impact you were hoping for.

Stephen Farrell

Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

Sri Chinmoy

How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally different. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself.