Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbra Streisand

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

Arthur Balfour

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

bell hooks

One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

bell hooks

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Asa Butterfield

Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

Diana Vreeland

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

Demetri Martin

To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

Daniel Handler

The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.

Bob Dylan

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

Brigitte Bardot

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.

Brian Regan

I was watchin' the news the other day, and I heard them talking about a criminal named Brian Regan same spelling and everything. He's gonna be in jail for the rest of his life. So I'm sitting there doing a crossword puzzle and all of a sudden I hear, It is unknown whether the charges against Brian Regan will lead to his execution. Guess I can put this down. Honey, did we pay that parking ticket?!

Bradley Whitford

I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.

Bradley Whitford

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

Anurag Kashyap

I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.

Brooke Astor

If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I'm talking down to them. People expect to see Mrs. Astor, not some dowdy old lady, and I don't intend to disappoint.

Brittany Howard

Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to,

Brody Jenner

If a guy's talking to you at a club and you're having a long conversation, and then one of your friends comes up and he automatically devotes his attention to her, that's always a sign to look for. They're not always just doing it 'cause they're being 'friendly.' They want to look for somebody new.

Denis Leary

I actually like talking.

Deb Caletti

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.

Dido Armstrong

It's much better when I go out with my mates and we stop talking about me like I'm some sort of egomaniac. It's great when we can just have a drink.

Dennis Kucinich

When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.

Edward Snowden

I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.

Edward Furlong

If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

Elizabeth Kostova

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

Edna O'Brien

Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

Arthur Miller

I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know...

Art Buchwald

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Benjamin Crump

When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use of force against African-American citizens, it's hard to try to rationalize how this cesspool of racism doesn't spill over onto the individual officers.

Benjamin Disraeli

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

Ben E. King

Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.

Carl Sandburg

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.