Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheryl Sandberg

Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.

Sheryl Sandberg

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.

Shel Silverstein

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

Taraji P. Henson

I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with the different stories, and have all these layers to peel back.

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.

Max Lucado

Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

May Sarton

People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

Max Greenfield

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

Matthew Lesko

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

Nate Burleson

I love hip-hop. I'm big into Jay-Z, Kanye, Little Wayne. Those are everyone's favorites, I know. I just like the fact that when they get on track and talk about whatever they're talking about, they have supreme confidence. That's pretty much what you need to have on the field. I like the way they approach their music, they feel like no one can touch them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.

John Green

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

John Ford

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.

John Flanagan

I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged. I did," he replied ruefully. "But while I was busy watching the ground, I hit that branch with my head. Broke it clean in two." Halt raised his eyebrows. "I assume you're not talking about your head," he muttered. Erak frowned at the suggestion. Of course not," he replied. More's the pity," Halt told him.

Jonathan Dimbleby

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

Kate Thornton

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

Kate Beckinsale

Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

Justin Verlander

I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

Julie Burchill

Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.

Judith Jamison

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

Judith Light

It happens all the time! People are always talking about that explosive moment in their family history that sort of changed everything and rattled the cage, and more times than not it has nothing to do with trans issues. That's why people are relating to this show [Transparent], because our family is their family and they understand that dynamic.

Judith Orloff

The most influential person in the room isn't the one who is being a bully, talking loudly, and imposing him- or herself on others. Surrendered people understand that true power comes from being respectful and listening.

Rachel Caine

I just—we were talking, and we fell asleep. I swear, we didn’t, um—’’ ‘‘Yeah, you’d better not have ummed.

Rachel Caine

When I want to be lectured on strategy, I'll consult someone who's actually won battles," Amelie said. "Not one who ran away from them." "Snap," Eve said. "You know what they're talking about?" Shane asked. "Don't need to know to get that one. She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.