Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen DeGeneres

It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience is just as important as that guest that's sitting next to me. It's not about me and that guest exchanging energy and talking. It's about everything that's going on in that room, and they're as much a part of the show as anything. I like this better than anything I've ever done.

Ellen DeGeneres

There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

Ian Mcewan

Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.

Ian Frazier

Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.

Gloria Steinem

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

J. K. Rowling

For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.

J. K. Rowling

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Itzhak Perlman

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.

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.

If I hadn't been wearing a helmet, I wouldn't be here talking to you.

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.

Hugo Weaving

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

Humphrey Bogart

There is more to talking than just words.

Ralph Carter

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

Zulima Farber

We're not talking years -- we're talking weeks or months, not years.

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

Mack Brown

We're not talking about starters, because we're going to need all of those guys.

Karen Finney

We're doing the work, we're not just talking about it.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.

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.

A. A. Milne

Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

Agatha Christie

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot