Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shane Claiborne

My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

Shane Claiborne

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

Sean Bean

You've only got to walk into a pub or a café or anything and you'll find people talking about topics they're very unhappy with. You feel as though things are being eroded and people don't know where they belong anymore.

Schoolboy Q

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

Mick Jagger

There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist, but you are talking through them to people who presumably are fans of the Rolling Stones. The interviews give you a chance to say a few things and maybe clear up some of the things people read about the band.

Michelle Obama

And that's my message to voters, this isn't about Barack, it's not about person on that ballot -- its about you. And for most of the people we are talking to [blacks], a Democratic ticket is the clear ticket that we should be voting on, regardless of who said what or did this -- that shouldn't even come into the equation.

Oscar Wilde

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

Oscar Wilde

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Oscar Wilde

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Madonna Ciccone

I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.

Lykke Li

I had a period after touring the first record where I didn't agree with the way things worked in the music industry as far as how you release music, demand, the pace of everything. You don't know who's talking to you. Who's Spotify? Who's iTunes? Who are all those bloggers? Who says I have to do this? Why do you have to do all this press? Why do I have to do so many shows? Why do I have to do a regular album right now? I don't understand it.

Luke Wilson

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

Lucinda Williams

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it

Louis Kronenberger

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

Louis L'Amour

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

Lorraine Hansberry

Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!

Melanie Lynskey

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

Michael Cera

The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.

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.

Michael Caine

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

Melanie Griffith

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?

Mason Cooley

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

Mason Cooley

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

Mason Cooley

Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen.

Mary Kay Ash

If I'm talking to someone in a crowded room, I try to make this person feel as though we're the only ones present. I shut out everything else. I look directly at the person. Even if a gorilla were to walk into the room, I probably wouldn't notice it.

Michael Gambon

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

Michelle Williams

It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.

Michio Kaku

One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

Michel Hazanavicius

First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt that people needed justification. Why are you doing a silent movie? Is it just for your own pleasure? I felt it was not enough for them so I realized I have to choose the subject that will make things easier for them and to tell the story of a silent actor makes sense for doing a silent movie.

Martha Wainwright

I don't like talking about music.

Teri Garr

I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community.