Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Lopez

I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

Christopher Fry

Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?

Christine Quinn

I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.

Christine Quinn

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.

Chris Rock

There's not one reference in that thing that doesn't play. People deal with emotions in music all the time, but comedians are always talking about what they see. But we seldom talk about what we feel.

Gertrude Stein

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

Forest Whitaker

In my career, I've had people talking about different things many times, but then not get nominated.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I'm the best at talking trash I'm also the best at going out there and backing it up.

Fran Lebowitz

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

George Meredith

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

Friedrich Nietzsche

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Nate Burleson

I love hip-hop. I'm big into Jay-Z, Kanye, Little Wayne. Those are everyone's favorites, I know. I just like the fact that when they get on track and talk about whatever they're talking about, they have supreme confidence. That's pretty much what you need to have on the field. I like the way they approach their music, they feel like no one can touch them.

Morgan Freeman

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

Milan Kundera

If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some of them will join in the kill, the others will discreetly pretend to know nothing, hear nothing, so you can go right on seeing them and talking to them. That second category, discreet and tactful, those are your friends. 'Friends' in the modern sense of the term. Listen, Jean-Marc, I've known that forever.

Josef Albers

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

Joschka Fischer

Everybody is talking today about the economy.

Jonathan Stroud

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.

Kevin Brady

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

Kevin Bales

It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.

Jimmy Carter

We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

John Cage

When I hear what we call ‘music,’ it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic — here on Sixth Avenue, for instance — I don’t have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound I don’t need sound to talk to me.

John C. Maxwell

Negative talking is contagious.

James Patterson

Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?" Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten. Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?" Any nausea? Headache?" Yep. And it's standing here talking to me.

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.

The day after (Hurricane Katrina) hit, we were talking about doing something.

All of the things we are talking about are already under way.

All right, we're talking about someone who you know very well.

Herbie Hancock

And I don't always talk about music, and I don't always play music, and I don't always think about music.

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.

Kurt Cobain

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.