Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Child

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

Nicki Minaj

We got the Hawks I aint talking about the Peach state

Matt Damon

And you know, we were talking about American identity, and where we've come from and where we are and where we're headed. We knew that we wanted to have a hopeful ending and we wanted it to be pro-community, and a pro-democracy type of movie.

Matt Damon

For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.

Marv Levy

I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now.

Mark Twain

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

Mark Twain

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Nicholas Sparks

You don't feel the need to talk all the time, do you," she said. He smiled. "No." "Most people don't know how to appreciate silence. They can't help talking." "I talk, I just want to have something to say first.

Nicholas Sparks

Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.

Muhammad Ali

There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

Muhammad Ali

I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.

Mitchell Hurwitz

People have outs for numbers of episodes, usually, written into their contract. Some studios will say, "We're going to let Julia Louis-Dreyfus off of Veep to do three episodes, but not three episodes of the same show." But, that's all business affairs, so I'm talking over my head here.

Maria Bamford

I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

Mark Hoppus

He [Patrick Stump] is been a friend of ours for a long time, and when we were talking about working with different producers and songwriters for the record, Patrick's name came up. We were excited to work with him - he's a very gifted lyricist and songwriter, and a really cool guy and it was a pleasure to work with him in the studio.

Mark Batterson

There comes a moment when you must quit talking to God about the mountain in your life and start talking to the mountain about your God. You proclaim His power. You declare His sovereignty. You affirm His faithfulness. You stand on His Word. You cling to His promises.

Marguerite Duras

I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.

Mikhail Gorbachev

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.

Imre Kertesz

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

Ilana Glazer

I'm talking ideal, I live in heaven, and my stomach is bottomless.

Idries Shah

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

Hunter Tylo

I really like to communicate to my fans. I have a fan club president who I've had for over 15 years.

Gloria Swanson

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

Gloria Steinem

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

J. K. Rowling

For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.

J. K. Rowling

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Itzhak Perlman

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.

Greg Kinnear

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.

Paul Farmer

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

Paul Feig

Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

Mary Hart

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.

Martha Grimes

Talking's just a nervous habit.

Mark Helprin

Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long enough to recognize the decisive thunder of its occurrence, that it can be manifest within a generation, within ten generations, within the entire span of human existence? What you are talking about is common sense, not justice. Justice is higher and not as easy to understand - until it presents itself in unmistakable splendor. The design of which I speak is far above our understanding. But we can sometimes feel its presence.

Oswald Chambers

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.