Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Safran Foer

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things...

Jonathan Safran Foer

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits....

Napoleon Hill

When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.

Lois McMaster Bujold

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

Ludacris

When you open up your mouth, everything of God comes out and it commands attention, it commands change. I'm talking about the power that's inside of you.

Louise Rennison

What in the name of Hitler's panties and matching bra set was she talking about?

Lord Chesterfield

Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.

Malcolm Forbes

Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.

Magic Johnson

I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

Gene Wilder

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Gene Wolfe

He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.

Gavin Bryars

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

Gavin MacLeod

That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.

Frank Luntz

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.

Maggie Grace

Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.

Norman Reedus

I'm more of a listener than a talker.

Oscar de la Renta

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

Orson Welles

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

Emile Hirsch

Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

Ellis Peters

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Helen McCrory

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realised I was in it.

Henry L. Stimson

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

Joan Didion

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

Jimi Hendrix

There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

Emma Roberts

I just don't like talking about my relationships or anything like that, in any reference.

Emma Stone

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

Emma Watson

My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she has kind of like a translator so she can understand without having to ask me, "What on Earth are you talking about when you say 'nackered'?"

John McCain

When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.

John Hawkes

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

Benjamin Crump

When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use of force against African-American citizens, it's hard to try to rationalize how this cesspool of racism doesn't spill over onto the individual officers.

Benjamin Disraeli

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

Evil tongues never want a whet.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.