Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Redford

I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"

Richard Paul Evans

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst

Robert Louis Stevenson

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

Wesley Clark

Certainly there’s a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they would be talking to Al Qaeda, that there would be some Al Qaeda there or that Saddam Hussein might even be, you know, discussing gee, I wonder since I don’t have any scuds and since the Americans are coming at me, I wonder if I could take advantage of Al Qaeda? How would I do it? Is it worth the risk? What could they do for me?

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.

William Shawcross

You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.

William J. Clinton

I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.

William James

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

Will Forte

Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.

Sarah Silverman

Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.

Sarah Silverman

I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.

Samuel P. Huntington

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

William Faulkner

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Willem Dafoe

It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women; I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.

Ronald Reagan

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

Saint Augustine

Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

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.