Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katie Couric

Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues.

Kim Gandy

We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services -- and there aren't alternatives.

Kevin Powers

It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was said. It wasn’t much in the way of comfort, but everything has a little failure in it, and we still make do somehow.

Ice Cube

You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat.

Imre Kertesz

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

Ilana Glazer

I'm talking ideal, I live in heaven, and my stomach is bottomless.

Idries Shah

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

Hunter Tylo

I really like to communicate to my fans. I have a fan club president who I've had for over 15 years.

Gloria Swanson

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

Gloria Steinem

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

J. K. Rowling

For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.

J. K. Rowling

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Itzhak Perlman

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.

Greg Kinnear

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.

George Herbert

Talking payes no toll.

Gene Krupa

When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

Jerry Bridges

Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

Ian Mcewan

Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.

Ian Frazier

Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.

If I hadn't been wearing a helmet, I wouldn't be here talking to you.

I do a play because I want to do this play. Someone once said to me, 'How can you take yourself off the market?' ... I had no idea what he was talking about. This is what we do.

I do know that he has been talking to negotiators.

Hugo Weaving

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

Humphrey Bogart

There is more to talking than just words.

Howard Dean

It is true that there`s an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth and all that kind of stuff.