Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbra Streisand

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

Arthur Balfour

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

bell hooks

One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

bell hooks

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Asa Butterfield

Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

Diana Vreeland

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

Deborah Kerr

Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.

Don Cheadle

We're not talking about you scored more points than me and I know that you won and I lost, those are clear results. This is about people's opinions and their subjective takes on things, people that sometimes haven't seen all of the movies they're voting on.

David Brooks

Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Brian Chesky

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

Brandi Chastain

What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.

Bobby Scott

Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers' money and discriminate against minorities.

Bob Edwards

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

Bob Dylan

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

Brigitte Bardot

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.

Brian Regan

I was watchin' the news the other day, and I heard them talking about a criminal named Brian Regan same spelling and everything. He's gonna be in jail for the rest of his life. So I'm sitting there doing a crossword puzzle and all of a sudden I hear, It is unknown whether the charges against Brian Regan will lead to his execution. Guess I can put this down. Honey, did we pay that parking ticket?!

Brian Tracy

Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."

Brian Tracy

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brendan Behan

When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Brad Gilbert

Tim Henman has the all-time Betty Crocker draw. We're talking Easy Bake Oven.

Jamie Hyneman

We don't have formal training, that makes what we're experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Blair Underwood

The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.

Blaise Pascal

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Blaise Pascal

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

Blaise Pascal

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

Chris Cornell

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.

Dick Wolf

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.