Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Covey

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

Stephanie Beacham

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

Viktor E. Frankl

We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

V. S. Pritchett

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

Suzanne Collins

I'm not good at talking about myself.

Tariq Ramadan

It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are no longer talking about Islam, they know they will have to talk about something else, which brings the spotlight on their inefficiency. They will have to talk about domestic social and economic issues and they will have to justify their foreign policy, which is obviously something they need to avoid at all costs.

Steve Spurrier

The Pope is 77 years old and he's in charge of a billion people. All I have to do is put 11 on the field.

Steve Spurrier

In Knoxville, they're still doing cartwheels because they went 7-6 and won a bowl game.

Steve Spurrier

You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.

Steve Spurrier

You can't spell Citrus without UT

Steve Spurrier

Will be the 14th time I've coached in Neyland Stadium. ... I've coached there more than some of their head coaches.

Stephen Merchant

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word wife on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.

Stephen King

Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.

Stephanie Mills

Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.

Stedman Graham

Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.

Sophia Bush

When I'm talking about a developing world, I also look at clean-water access - women who are more vulnerable to sexual violence when they're fetching water. And talking about what we have going on here, with our carbon footprints and our emissions, is just as important to me as figuring out how to provide clean water to people who need it in regions around the world.

Tiesto

I spend a lot of time talking to young and emerging producers on Twitter, feeding back thoughts and encouraging them.

Thomas Mars

One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.

Thomas Carlyle

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

Tom Skerritt

Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

Steve Bartlett

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

Steve Carell

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

Steve Carell

I had a friend who, after 25 years of marriage, found himself trying to date again, and it was completely different. Everything had changed, and he had to reacquaint himself. It was funny even talking to him about it. For someone who has been out of the loop, it's a different world.

Stephen Jackson

I got fined for talking to myself.

Stephen Hawking

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

Stephen Hawking

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

Sigmund Freud

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

Shirley Henderson

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

Shepard Smith

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Philip Levine

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

Keith Ellison

San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as - as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the United States.

Katy Perry

Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you

Ralph Vaughan Williams

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.