Famous Quotes & Sayings

Skrillex

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

Skeet Ulrich

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

Rajneesh

The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself.

Sojourner Truth

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

Snoop Dogg

I tell the truth. And I know what I'm talking about. That's why I'm a threat.

Socrates

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.

Meredith Brooks

There are very few interviews I turn down, because I really dig talking to people and hanging out.

Michelle Rodriguez

People don't like talking about it, but if you're Spanish, you feel a weight.

Michael Moorer

Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.

Michael Moore

Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out.

Terry McAuliffe

People ought to quit talking to the press.

Marcus Buckingham

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't talking.

Kin Hubbard

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Kin Hubbard

Look out for the people who allow you to do all the talking.

Michael Bloomberg

We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.

Michael Irvin

I don't see how any African-American, with any inkling of history, can say that you don't have the right to live your life how you want to live your life. No one should be telling you who you should love, no one should be telling you who you should be spending the rest of your life with. When we start talking about equality, and everybody being treated equally, I don't want to know an African-American who will say everybody doesn't deserve equality.

Oil now, as a result of the Saudi production, is priced so low that there are not going to be new fracking investments made. A lot of companies that have gone into fracking are heavily debt-leveraged, and are beginning to default on their loans. The next wave of defaults that banks are talking about is probably going to be in the fracking industry. When the costs of production are so much more than they can end up getting for the oil, they just stop producing and stop paying their loans.

Randy Quaid

Honestly, it was pretty challenging working with a talking raccoon.

Randy Newman

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

Randy Pausch

Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.

Rand Paul

The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.

Eric Hoffer

You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

Eric Bana

I enjoy just being cocooned in production and it's completely different to your other life that you have. I enjoy that. I enjoy being on the set and hanging out and talking to whoever we're working with and just being in the moment.

Emmett Shear

People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void.

James Altucher

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

Henry Rollins

One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

Henry Rollins

Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on people below a certain fiscal level. It is a calculated, systematic weakening of people. Many labour, a few benefit. Try talking about cleaning up the place with these people. The hostility is incredible.

Henry Adams

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Henry Adams

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

Henry A. Kissinger

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Helen Gurley Brown

Talkers expand like bread dough.

Helen Gurley Brown

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.