Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Collier

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

Esther Dyson

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

Esther Hicks

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

Esther Hicks

Stop talking about the way things are, unless you like them.

Ernest Hemingway

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Erin Heatherton

I love going on dates and talking.

Fiona Shaw

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

Fetty Wap

I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?"

Fiona Apple

I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

Fernando Meirelles

Is so interesting, is that when you're blindfolded and you're talking to somebody the conversation goes to places that it would never go if you could see the other person's reaction. You start talking about very intimate things. It's such an interesting experience.

Henry Moore

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

Cassandra Clare

You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.

Gillian Flynn

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

James Brolin

One of the things I love about directing is I love actors, because no matter how complex they are, once you get down to working and talking to them and the toughest guy will want you to open them up and he wants to show you stuff he was afraid to show anybody before.

James Brown

Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!

Jackie Evancho

Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

Jackie Chan

When I came to Hollywood, I spoke no English - except nobody bullied me. Every day, I had nothing to do except training in English, to keep talking.

J. R. R. Tolkien

In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.

J. R. R. Tolkien

What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?

J. R. R. Tolkien

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

Isaac Mizrahi

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

Isaac Asimov

One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better

Iris Chang

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

Ellen DeGeneres

Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.

Ellen DeGeneres

It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience is just as important as that guest that's sitting next to me. It's not about me and that guest exchanging energy and talking. It's about everything that's going on in that room, and they're as much a part of the show as anything. I like this better than anything I've ever done.

Ellen DeGeneres

There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

Jennifer Hudson

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

Jeff Bezos

If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about.

George Will

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.