Quotes about talking
talking
You can't just keep talking about it -- eventually, you have to do it.
talking people
One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand. Gertrude Stein
talking calming-effect islands
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island. Gerry Adams
talking no-trust fleeing
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future Horace
talking listening mouths
One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything. Herbie Hancock
talking people trying
We stay away from pop culture almost all the time, you know. That's sort of a rule. You won't really hear people on our show talking about Beyoncé or Adele. We try to make it a little bit more timeless. Jill Soloway
talking roles way
I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles. Jessica Chastain
talking trying acting
I love talking about acting. I'm just such a fan of actors and filmmakers, and I try to choose roles where I get to talk to great actors about acting and learn.
talking hair sometimes
Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking! James Brown
talking waiting normal
Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance. Jackie Evancho
talking training hollywood
When I came to Hollywood, I spoke no English - except nobody bullied me. Every day, I had nothing to do except training in English, to keep talking. Jackie Chan
talking long speak
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying. J. R. R. Tolkien
talking white league
Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.
talking upset littles
What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?
talking speak habit
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
talking want lasts
The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be Isaac Mizrahi
talking soul hats
One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better Isaac Asimov
talking space people
I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. Iris Chang
talking giving rooms
Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back. Ellen DeGeneres
talking important sitting
It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience is just as important as that guest that's sitting next to me. It's not about me and that guest exchanging energy and talking. It's about everything that's going on in that room, and they're as much a part of the show as anything. I like this better than anything I've ever done.
talking laughing people
There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.
talking mind saying-nothing
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
talking delight warning
The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.
talking mind desire
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
talking vanity giving
The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.
talking boredom together
The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.
talking work-out choices
Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily. Ian Mcewan
talking ears speech
Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's. Ian Frazier
talking listening easy
A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening. Evan Esar
talking space guy
In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses. Esther Dyson
talking want where-you-are
You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are. Esther Hicks
talking way
Stop talking about the way things are, unless you like them.
talking please
Would you please please please please please please please stop talking? Ernest Hemingway