Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anurag Kashyap

I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.

Brooke Astor

If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I'm talking down to them. People expect to see Mrs. Astor, not some dowdy old lady, and I don't intend to disappoint.

Brittany Howard

Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to,

Brody Jenner

If a guy's talking to you at a club and you're having a long conversation, and then one of your friends comes up and he automatically devotes his attention to her, that's always a sign to look for. They're not always just doing it 'cause they're being 'friendly.' They want to look for somebody new.

Bobby Cannavale

I just want different parts; I wanna be that guy who people mention and they don't know who you're talking about until you say a few movies they've been in and then people are amazed that it's the same person.

Billy Idol

I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

Billy Joel

I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.

Betty Williams

There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution

Betty White

The thing that I love about television there are no more than two or three people watching you at a time. If there are more than two or three people in a room they're talking to each other, they're not listening to you.

David Wain

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

David Hoffman

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

David Hockney

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

David Hockney

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

David Hume

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

David Brock

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

David Brooks

I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.

Arthur Ransome

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

Edna O'Brien

Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

Barbara Wagner

He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years.

Barbara Walters

The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.

Barbra Streisand

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

Arthur Balfour

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

bell hooks

One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

bell hooks

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Asa Butterfield

Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

Diana Vreeland

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

Demetri Martin

To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

Daniel Handler

The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.

Dana Perino

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

Dana Perino

I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or Twitter. I'm talking hard-copy note.

Dan Ariely

Interesting thing that is happening in American society is that people are starting to talk about money. I don't know how you feel about this, but for a long time, nobody was talking about money. It was a secret. And it's kind of very interesting because we do lots of stuff to portray to people about how much money we have, the clothes we wear and the cars we have and the house - they all kind of depict to other people, signal how much money we make, but we don't talk about it specifically.