Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Dessen

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

Sarah Dessen

It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.

Roseanne Barr

I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing.

Rod Laver

I like to let my racket do the talking.

Robin Quivers

I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing.

Robin McKinley

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

Robert Rauschenberg

I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

Sarah Paulson

I like that feeling in your brain when you've got seven things that you're holding in one moment-you heard that person cough, you heard that person laugh, you're also saying your line, you're also listening to the person who's talking to you.

Vincent McNabb

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Willa Cather

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

William Stafford

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

William Lilly

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

Walter Hill

I'm always happy to talk to somebody; it's flattering that people remember your movies. Especially some movie that you did, for Christ's sake, almost 35 years ago, or what's especially pleasant is if you're talking about some movie that you did 35 years ago and they're 20 years old.

William Julius Wilson

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

Yo-Yo Ma

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

Yogi Berra

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking.

Winona Ryder

I remember being 18, and my first boyfriend said to me, "Unless you're in the room, you don't know if it's true." We were talking about gossip.

William Safire

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

William S. Burroughs

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.

William Kunstler

When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

William Jennings Bryan

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Violette Leduc

We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

Winston Churchill

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

Will Rogers

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.

Will Rogers

We do more talking progress than we do progressing.

Zora Neale Hurston

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Yvonne Strahovski

I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault,

William Hazlitt

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Walter Mosley

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

Walter Raleigh

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

Waka Flocka Flame

My watch say I made it, my chains say I'm rich. Diamonds in my mouth got me talking cash s**t.

Vivienne Westwood

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.