Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Wolcott

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

Jason Chaffetz

I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.

Matt LeBlanc

We've talked about it within the team and we've dubbed it the 'Reverse the Record' season.

We've talked about it. It's still a ways away. It's 50-50.

We've talked about it, but there's not been a decision.

Ray Durham

We've talked about it, but I'll let them decide. I'd be all for it, that's for sure.

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

Calvin Coolidge

I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I don't recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.

Carla Bruni

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

Charles Dance

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

Channing Tatum

If you're with someone you don't exactly trust then you have to watch yourself and that's the hardest thing for an actor not to do, and not listen to yourself as you're talking.

Blair Underwood

The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.

Blaise Pascal

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Blaise Pascal

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

Blaise Pascal

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

Edward Norton

But at the same time, the film industry just got torched. The risk tolerance for the types of movies we're talking about is lower, and the reason for that is that the captains of the industry were asleep at the switch when their core business was being disrupted. And they're never getting it back. In a way, it makes it all the more exciting when the good ones get through.

Edward Snowden

So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading,

Britney Spears

I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.

Brett Ratner

Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.

Brandon Routh

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

There are things that we can't talk about.

Antonio Banderas

I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to be free enough to try to understand what he wants from you. Especially when that director has a tremendous personality. And I'm talking about people like Pedro Almodovar and Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen. And you have to adapt. If you don't adapt to them, you are off the thing.

Brian Tracy

Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."

Brian Tracy

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brendan Behan

When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Brad Gilbert

Tim Henman has the all-time Betty Crocker draw. We're talking Easy Bake Oven.

Jamie Hyneman

We don't have formal training, that makes what we're experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Barbara Wagner

He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years.

Barbara Walters

The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.