Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Young

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

Neil Young

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

Rachel Maddow

If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.

Rachel Maddow

I have learned when two Republicans are talking about legalizing drugs to shut up.

Nic Pizzolatto

And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

Noah Hawley

Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there's this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud.

Noam Chomsky

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.

Jodi Picoult

You keep distracting me,” I tell her. “All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!” “Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j

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.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

L. Neil Smith

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

Lilly Pulitzer

There will be a moment of silence while our prints do the talking.

P. J. O'Rourke

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

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.