Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mcewan

Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.

Ian Frazier

Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.

If Hayley doesn't want to talk to you, I'm not going to make her.

If I hadn't been wearing a helmet, I wouldn't be here talking to you.

I can't talk right now -- they just escaped.

Rick Barnes

I can't talk about it. I don't think it's official.

Ben Howland

I don't want to talk about it. I get too emotional.

I don't want to talk about it at the moment. Sorry.

Jon Scheyer

I don't like to talk about that game.

Carlos Delgado

I don't like to talk about myself. But I think it's going to be a better lineup this time around.

I do a play because I want to do this play. Someone once said to me, 'How can you take yourself off the market?' ... I had no idea what he was talking about. This is what we do.

I do know that he has been talking to negotiators.

Nicolas Massu

If Coria comes to me with an apology, I will talk to him, but I will tell him that he was wrong.

Hugo Weaving

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

Humphrey Bogart

There is more to talking than just words.

Howard Dean

It is true that there`s an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth and all that kind of stuff.

James Brolin

One of the things I love about directing is I love actors, because no matter how complex they are, once you get down to working and talking to them and the toughest guy will want you to open them up and he wants to show you stuff he was afraid to show anybody before.

James Brown

Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!

Jackie Evancho

Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

Jackie Chan

When I came to Hollywood, I spoke no English - except nobody bullied me. Every day, I had nothing to do except training in English, to keep talking.

J. R. R. Tolkien

In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.

J. R. R. Tolkien

What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?

J. R. R. Tolkien

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

Isaac Mizrahi

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

Isaac Asimov

One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better

Iris Chang

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

By far, he was the mascot that was talked about the most.

Richard Hamilton

Hopefully, I can talk to someone. $15,000? I don't understand that one. ... I don't think that was fair.

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.