Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Groff

But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.

Lady Gaga

I don't like talking to celebrities.

Lewis Black

I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast.

Lewis Carroll

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

Joseph Campbell

Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second best are misunderstood : myths, which are metaphoric attempts to point to the way toward the first. And the third best have to do with history, science, biography, and so on. The only kind of talking that can be understood is this last kind.

Joseph Campbell

And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.

Karl Pilkington

Normally you can't hear you're own voice because you're talking over it.

John Mayer

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

John Madden

Whenever you talk about a Mike Shanahan offense, you're always going to be talking about his offense.

John Malkovich

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

John Lennon

When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.

John Lasseter

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

John Lahr

Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

Jimmy Carl Black

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

Jim Parsons

It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.

George Lopez

When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

George Lucas

I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types.

Emily Oster

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

Emily Mortimer

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

Emily Post

Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.

Elliot Perlman

As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.

Elliott Abrams

When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

Elizabeth Fishel

What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then - with great forgiveness and fortitude - dismissing them.

Judith Jamison

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

Judith Light

It happens all the time! People are always talking about that explosive moment in their family history that sort of changed everything and rattled the cage, and more times than not it has nothing to do with trans issues. That's why people are relating to this show [Transparent], because our family is their family and they understand that dynamic.

Judith Orloff

The most influential person in the room isn't the one who is being a bully, talking loudly, and imposing him- or herself on others. Surrendered people understand that true power comes from being respectful and listening.

Katherine Harris

So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.

Karen Armstrong

I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.

Kate McKinnon

I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

Karen Joy Fowler

Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.

Karen Kingsbury

There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

Justin Bartha

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.