Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

Oscar Wilde

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Oscar Wilde

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Madonna Ciccone

I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.

Lykke Li

I had a period after touring the first record where I didn't agree with the way things worked in the music industry as far as how you release music, demand, the pace of everything. You don't know who's talking to you. Who's Spotify? Who's iTunes? Who are all those bloggers? Who says I have to do this? Why do you have to do all this press? Why do I have to do so many shows? Why do I have to do a regular album right now? I don't understand it.

Luke Wilson

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

Lucinda Williams

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it

Louis Kronenberger

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

Louis L'Amour

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

Lorraine Hansberry

Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!

Michael Curtiz

Don't talk to me while I'm interrupting.

Melanie Lynskey

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

Marshall Allman

Talking about spirituality is like talking about new love - it always sounds kooky to those who aren't experiencing it.

Nicki Minaj

I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.

Nicki Minaj

We got the Hawks I aint talking about the Peach state

Matt Damon

And you know, we were talking about American identity, and where we've come from and where we are and where we're headed. We knew that we wanted to have a hopeful ending and we wanted it to be pro-community, and a pro-democracy type of movie.

Matt Damon

For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.

Marv Levy

I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now.

Mark Twain

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

Mark Twain

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Nicholas Sparks

You don't feel the need to talk all the time, do you," she said. He smiled. "No." "Most people don't know how to appreciate silence. They can't help talking." "I talk, I just want to have something to say first.

Nicholas Sparks

Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.

John Green

Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

John Green

I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I find interesting, and the Internet is a great way to do that.

Pat Robertson

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

Paul Neilan

And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.

Paul Farmer

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

Paul Feig

Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

Mary Hart

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.

Martha Grimes

Talking's just a nervous habit.

Mark Helprin

Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long enough to recognize the decisive thunder of its occurrence, that it can be manifest within a generation, within ten generations, within the entire span of human existence? What you are talking about is common sense, not justice. Justice is higher and not as easy to understand - until it presents itself in unmistakable splendor. The design of which I speak is far above our understanding. But we can sometimes feel its presence.

Oswald Chambers

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.