Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Oscar Wilde

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

Go talk to the referees. They have all the answers.

For the most part, we've proceeded as normal. I know the team and I haven't talked about it.

Imre Kertesz

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

Ilana Glazer

I'm talking ideal, I live in heaven, and my stomach is bottomless.

Idries Shah

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

Hunter Tylo

I really like to communicate to my fans. I have a fan club president who I've had for over 15 years.

Gloria Swanson

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

Gloria Steinem

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

J. K. Rowling

For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.

Nathan Fielder

In my personal life, I will do whatever it takes to make a situation comfortable if I sense - if I'm talking to someone [and] I sense there's a silence, I'll try to fill that gap. It makes me very anxious when things get uncomfortable.

Nathan Fillion

I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

Ken Salazar

We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.

Ken Adam

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

Kathy Mattea

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

Kate Bush

I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it's my work that does the talking rather than me.

Julian Casablancas

No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

Julian Assange

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

Ken Jennings

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

Ken Kesey

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

Katie Couric

Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues.

Kim Gandy

We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services -- and there aren't alternatives.

Kevin Powers

It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was said. It wasn’t much in the way of comfort, but everything has a little failure in it, and we still make do somehow.

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.

There was a lot of talk that went on ... it was repartee.

There was a lot of talk about China.

At halftime, we just talked about getting after it on defense, so that we could widen the margin.

As we talked yesterday, it's his call. I don't have anything to say about it.