Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew McConaughey

I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me.

Marina Abramovic

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.

Mathieu Kassovitz

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

Patricia Briggs

Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.

Patricia Briggs

I was talking cannibalism, not romance.

Pat Nixon

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

Paula Deen

Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.

Martin Scorsese

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

Lee Child

I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

Laurie Lee

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

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.

Nick Lowe

And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite a fan of. I heard him talking in a rather similar way on the radio. He said I'm the sort of person - I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was rather interesting - he said I'm the sort of person that can be reduced to tears in an empty church and feel like I'm the CEO of the Devil's organization in a full one, and I tend to feel like that as well. I love empty churches and going into them looking around, but I'm not a churchgoer at all.

Peggy Noonan

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

Paulo Coelho

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

Paulo Coelho

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

Paulo Coelho

Try doing something different every day-like talking to the person at the next table to you in a restaurant, visiting a hospital, putting your foot in a puddle, listening to what another person has to say, allowing the energy of love to flow freely, instead of putting it in a jug and standing it in a corner.

Marlon Brando

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

Marlon Brando

People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.

Marisha Pessl

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

Mariah Carey

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Megyn Kelly

What I don't like is talking points.

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.

Nigel Short

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

Nigella Lawson

I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.

Nigel Hamilton

If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.

N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

Miley Cyrus

You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.

John Prescott

There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.

Mario Lopez

I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

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.