Famous Quotes & Sayings

The day after (Hurricane Katrina) hit, we were talking about doing something.

All of the things we are talking about are already under way.

All right, we're talking about someone who you know very well.

Edward Burns

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

Edward Albee

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

Joschka Fischer

Everybody is talking today about the economy.

Jonathan Stroud

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.

Kevin Brady

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

Kevin Bales

It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.

Kurt Cobain

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Kevyn Aucoin

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

Khalil Gibran

I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

Jonathan Swift

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Jonathan Nolan

I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to tell stories and so you hope that they will have resonance for people and for the kind of things you're talking about.

Jonathan Sacks

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things...

Jonathan Safran Foer

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits....

Napoleon Hill

When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.

Lois McMaster Bujold

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

Ludacris

When you open up your mouth, everything of God comes out and it commands attention, it commands change. I'm talking about the power that's inside of you.

Louise Rennison

What in the name of Hitler's panties and matching bra set was she talking about?

Lord Chesterfield

Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.

Malcolm Forbes

Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.

Magic Johnson

I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

Gene Wilder

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Gene Wolfe

He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.

Gavin Bryars

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

Gavin MacLeod

That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.

Frank Luntz

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.

Maggie Grace

Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.

Oscar de la Renta

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

Orson Welles

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

Emile Hirsch

Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.