Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Mooney

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

Paul Buchheit

Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.

Paul Cellucci

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

Kathy Griffin

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.

Kristen Stewart

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

Kristen Stewart

I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

Oscar Niemeyer

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

Oprah Winfrey

Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.

Olivia Wilde

You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

Oliver Goldsmith

Error is always talkative.

Oliver Goldsmith

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.

Margaret Atwood

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Marcel Marceau

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

Marc Bolan

Sometimes I get a funny feeling inside me that I shan't be here very long, and I'm not talking in terms of things like success. It frightens me sometimes

Kid Rock

I'm single and loving it. It is always weird talking about that stuff. When someone is talking about who they are going out with, I am always like, who cares? Talk about your music or something.

Kenny G

You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Kelly LeBrock

I want to get the American people to start sitting at a table together and talking to each other, holding court, and enjoying a meal - and it doesn't have an expense.

Katie Leung

I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!

Mark Twain

I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

Paul Weyrich

We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.

Paul Wellstone

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

Mary Oliver

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.

Mary Doria Russell

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

Peter Milligan

When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.

Prince Philip

I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

Paul Walker

People are often talking when they are not supposed to be.

Terry Pratchett

It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

Selena Gomez

I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

Sharleen Spiteri

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

Shantel VanSanten

I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.

Lewis Thomas

I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.