Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Child

I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

Laurie Lee

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

John Travolta

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

James Joseph Sylvester

I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloquent mathematician must, from the nature of things, ever remain as rare a phenomenon as a talking fish, and it is certain that the more anyone gives himself up to the study of oratorical effect the less will he find himself in a fit state to mathematicize.

James Hunter

To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.

James Hansen

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

James Fallows

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

James Fenton

When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me.

Larry Flynt

My position has always been that there's two types of people opposed to pornography: those who don't know what they're talking about, and those who don't know what they're missing.

Libba Bray

What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You’re not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I’m talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it.

Leslie Stephen

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

Jon Porter

The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

Johnnie Cochran

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Excuse me?" Jess asked in disbelief. "This is Frozen Zarek I'm talking to, right? Not some weird pod person?" He shook his head at Jess's joking. "It's me, dickless." "Hey, now, that's way too personal. I don't need to know that much about you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You keep talking like that, Vane, and I might be forced to keep you.” “You keep looking at me like that, and I just might let you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What are you people talking about?” – Abigail “Nothing important. Just the end of the world as we know it, and for the record, I don’t feel fine. Neither will you when it all comes slamming down on your head.” – Zarek

Nigel Short

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

Nigella Lawson

I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.

Nigel Hamilton

If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.

N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

Miley Cyrus

You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.

Mike Mills

As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.

Peter Mayhew

You've got to be on the toes, ... You've got to know what you're talking about.

Nick Saban

And my wife told me once, 'I'll never talk to you again,'

Ned Yost

All we're talking about is a third of an inning,

All we do is talk about how our teams did each week.

All this consolidation could rekindle talks between everybody.

All I'll say is that we're going to talk about the future.

Elizabeth Smart

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

Peggy Noonan

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

Paulo Coelho

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

Paulo Coelho

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.