Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I'm the best at talking trash I'm also the best at going out there and backing it up.

Fran Lebowitz

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

George Meredith

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

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?

Elsa Maxwell

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

Jay Asher

That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about. You may have an idea, but you cant be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings. Is it a stand-in ―a symbol for another idea? Does it fit into a larger, more hidden, metaphor? ...I hated poetry until someone showed me how to appreciate it. He told me to see poetry as a puzzle. Its up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

Jay Asher

That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Jason Segel

It [voicing animation] is very freeing. Nobody in the cast is doing their voice. No one is talking like they normally talk and it's because, all of a sudden, you're freed from the physical limitations of how you look, which is amazing.

Hillary Clinton

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

Hillary Clinton

When I spend my time out on the campaign trail, it's usually about what I can do for somebody else. I don't like talking about myself, I don't like the whole atmosphere of how people are judged in American politics too often as to what you say instead of what you do. And so for me it's always about what can I do for you? How can I help you?

Guy Fieri

Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!

Guy Finley

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

Gillian Flynn

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

James Brolin

One of the things I love about directing is I love actors, because no matter how complex they are, once you get down to working and talking to them and the toughest guy will want you to open them up and he wants to show you stuff he was afraid to show anybody before.

Cassandra Clare

You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.

Josh Earnest

The most frequent way that I will communicate with him Obamacis when we're traveling. We talk about what's in the news, and I hear him talking about issues that are important to him.

Josh Fox

When you frack a well, you're exploding methane up into the atmosphere. So, Barack Obama, by supporting natural gas, and also talking about climate change is literally burning his own inaugural address. And he's doing it with natural gas.

Steven Pressfield

Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered.

Steven Cojocaru

You're surfing with all this glamour, and a lot of people are talking about Gwyneth, JLo, and Cameron.

Steven Weber

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.

Steven Tyler

The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.

Robbie Lawler

I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet.

Richard Stearns

What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?

Richard Sherman

It's hard coming in here talking a big game. It's hard, it's hard. It's a lamb coming to the wolves and throwing meat at them.

Richard Armitage

Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike.

Raymond Carver

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

John Berger

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Jimmy Fallon

I can watch an episode of Jerry Seinfeld, and by the end, I'm just walking around my house, you know, talking like Jerry Seinfeld. 'What is that? What are you doing? Who is it? What's going' - you know, I just had that thing, when I grew up, I'd just start talking like people. You know, I always had that.

Geoff Davis

Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.

Garry Shandling

I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over.

Garrison Keillor

Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans.

Gabriel Mann

If we're talking music I could go on and on and on.