Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stedman Graham

Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.

Sophia Bush

When I'm talking about a developing world, I also look at clean-water access - women who are more vulnerable to sexual violence when they're fetching water. And talking about what we have going on here, with our carbon footprints and our emissions, is just as important to me as figuring out how to provide clean water to people who need it in regions around the world.

Stanley Kunitz

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.

We have been in contact with our customers, we've been actively talking to them. Our customers are important to us, so we decided to compensate appliance repairs.

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.

Tony Goldwyn

One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.

Tommy Smothers

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

Steve King

My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the Greek civilization as the Greeks were developing their Age of Reason. And we're talking about the foundation of Western Civilization, and almost concurrently with that, Roman law was emerging as well.

Steve Albini

I don't feel like embarrassing Kurt by talking about what a psycho hosebeast his wife is, especially when he knows it already.

Stephen Hawking

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

Shane Claiborne

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

John von Neumann

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

John Travolta

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

John Philpot Curran

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

Mark Spitz

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the moustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it — and everybody was talking about it — that I decided to keep it.

Megan McCafferty

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.

Michael Caine

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

Mason Cooley

Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

Jesse Jackson

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

Hillary Clinton

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

Chris Hayes

I`ve heard this theory that this is basically Jeb`s [Bush] people trying to get their supporters to basically put the stake in Marco Rubio because if people are talking about accepting [Donald] Trump over [Ted] Cruz, what they`re really saying is Marco Rubio`s no longer viable.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?

Eminem

I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?

I didn't know I was in the zone until talking about it after. I didn't know how I did that.