Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Greg Kinnear

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

George Herbert

Talking payes no toll.

Gene Krupa

When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

Jerry Bridges

Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.

I do a play because I want to do this play. Someone once said to me, 'How can you take yourself off the market?' ... I had no idea what he was talking about. This is what we do.

I do know that he has been talking to negotiators.

Ralph Carter

When I got into Irving's, ... everyone was talking about it.

We're not talking about tens of thousands, but it's significant.

Abel Ferrara

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

Abel Ferrara

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

Aaron Levie

You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.

Adriana Trigiani

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

Adrian Mitchell

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

Adam McKay

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

Ada Leverson

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

Joe Torre

You know we're capable. It's always talking about the thumpers and all of the big things we can do.

J. J. Johnson

We got to talking, and he got talking about his case.

We aren't talking about a whole lot of money.

We are not talking about a tax issue, we are talking about a constitutional requirement.

We are not talking about a $20,000 truck here.

You are actually talking to Obeidi? ... Where is he? What did he say?

We've pitched them and are talking with them. Nothing is confirmed.

David Byrne

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

David Byrne

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

Darryl F. Zanuck

Don't say yes until I finish talking.

David Levithan

I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

David Levithan

This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it

David Letterman

About half an hour before air time - that's when I become hyper. I put everything else out of my mind and just let that nervous energy surge through my body. I start talking faster and louder. My confidence comes up. It's actually a great feeling.

David Letterman

I was talking to a friend about Santorum. He said, 'For all my years in the State Department, I know one thing. Terrorists, what they fear most is a guy in a sweater vest.'

David Letterman

They're talking about putting a woman on the $20 bill. And Hillary said, 'I'm available.'

David Mamet

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

David Mamet

I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'