Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Rayburn

Don't ever talk until you know what you are talking about.

Rumi

I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

Ron Perlman

You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive.

Roland Barthes

Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things

Susan Powter

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

Studs Terkel

One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his computer. I hire people from here and make deals from this room, he told me. Then he took me to the trading room. Nobody was talking to anybody else, the place was silent as a tomb, they were all sitting there watching their terminals - a great word, terminal. I tell you, it scares the crap out of me.

Stockard Channing

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

Steve Jobs

Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!

Steve Case

We need that same mentality in philanthropy, trying things, taking risks, recognizing the first try, maybe the second try, maybe the third try won't work. But if you stay at it and you're learning, you're talking to others, and you're learning together, eventually you'll break through and see the kind of impact you were hoping for.

Stephen Farrell

Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

Paula Poundstone

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

Paul Walker

People are often talking when they are not supposed to be.

Philip Glass

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

Peter Thiel

The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.

Pema Chodron

If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.

Peter Jurasik

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

Phyllis Bottome

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

Phyllis Bottome

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

Rachel Cohn

With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

Placido Domingo

To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.

Terence McKenna

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

Ted Danson

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

Ted Allen

It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

Selena Gomez

I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

Sean Kinney

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

Si Robertson

My wife asked me about that: "What happened to your beard?" I said, "What are you talking about?" She said, "Hey, the right side is shorter than the left." I said, "You gotta be kidding me." So I went in there and looked, and I combed it out and I said, "I don't know, that's just the way it grows."

Sharleen Spiteri

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

Shantel VanSanten

I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.

Lewis Thomas

I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.

Leonard Lauder

I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

Laura Prepon

When you work with an actor, it's cool because they know what it's like to be directed themselves. Jodie directed a scene with me and Taylor that was when she starts talking to me again in prison and it's our first actual confrontation that we have, where some stuff comes out.

Larry Ellison

Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

Larry David

I don't like talking to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with.