Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roxane Gay

We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.

Robert Jay Lifton

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

Rodman Philbrick

I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.

Rocco DiSpirito

Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.

Robertson Davies

It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion...

Vincent McNabb

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Willa Cather

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

Vivienne Westwood

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

Walter Benjamin

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form - it may be called fleeting or eternal - is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.

Werner Erhard

I could always tell when an organization was in good shape. I could tell because the manager of the organization would always be talking about how great the people in the organization were. If the manager was talking about anything other than how great people in the organization were, I knew that the organization was in bad shape. The way to manage an organization successfully is to manage it in such a way that you can be proud of the people with whom you are working. You have to find a way to interact with the people with whom you are working in a way that makes you proud of them.

Wayne Rogers

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

Wayne Williams

Modeling is more important than the talking we do.

Wale

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

Wale

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

I'm exhausted from not talking.

Samuel Butler

When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

Salvatore Ferragamo

Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about

Sally Ride

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

Van Jones

The Whitehouse is talking different because we are walking different

Tyson Gay

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

Stephen Amell

And what better way to get people talking than by creating a new word.

Stephen Chbosky

But at one point, Craig was talking about something, and Sam turned to me and smiled. It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay.

Stephen Colbert

We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist.

Tim Tebow

I'm going to listen to John Elway. He knows what he's talking about.

Tim Cook

We're talking about a world where the PC is no longer the center, but just a devicewhere your new devices need to be more portable, more personal.

Tim Berners-Lee

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

Thomas Ferguson

Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.

Thomas Keller

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

Vin Scully

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

Victor Garber

One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again.

Gerry Adams

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

Horace

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

Herbie Hancock

One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.