Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Prepon

When you work with an actor, it's cool because they know what it's like to be directed themselves. Jodie directed a scene with me and Taylor that was when she starts talking to me again in prison and it's our first actual confrontation that we have, where some stuff comes out.

Larry Ellison

Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

Larry David

I don't like talking to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with.

Larry David

I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

Kylie Minogue

My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster. But I don't discount love when I'm talking about not getting married. I could... it's just something I haven't wanted to do yet.

Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

Sheryl Swoopes

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

Shia LaBeouf

It's very weird because the 'It' guy usually is not the 'It' guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about.

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.

Justin Bartha

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

Lawrence Welk

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

Lawrence Welk

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

Lauren Bacall

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

Laurell K. Hamilton

He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.

Lisa Guerrero

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

Linus Torvalds

I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.

Linus Torvalds

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

Leo Tolstoy

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

Leo Tolstoy

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

Pema Chodron

If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.

Peter Jurasik

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

Phyllis Bottome

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

Phyllis Bottome

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

Rachel Cohn

With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

Placido Domingo

To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Kobe Bryant

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

Kofi Annan

If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.

Kevin J. Anderson

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.