Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Ice Cube

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

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.

Erica Jong

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Eminem

I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?

Elsa Maxwell

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

Jay Asher

That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about. You may have an idea, but you cant be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings. Is it a stand-in ―a symbol for another idea? Does it fit into a larger, more hidden, metaphor? ...I hated poetry until someone showed me how to appreciate it. He told me to see poetry as a puzzle. Its up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

Jay Asher

That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Jason Segel

It [voicing animation] is very freeing. Nobody in the cast is doing their voice. No one is talking like they normally talk and it's because, all of a sudden, you're freed from the physical limitations of how you look, which is amazing.

Hillary Clinton

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

Hillary Clinton

When I spend my time out on the campaign trail, it's usually about what I can do for somebody else. I don't like talking about myself, I don't like the whole atmosphere of how people are judged in American politics too often as to what you say instead of what you do. And so for me it's always about what can I do for you? How can I help you?

Evan Esar

A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.

Irving Thalberg

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

Ira Glass

I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

Jack McDevitt

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

Jack Kerouac

Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

J. C. Ryle

I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them...

Hannibal Buress

I like showing different types of comedy - showing that I could tell a story, or showing that I could do a one-liner, showing I could do stuff about music - so just trying to be versatile and talking about different topics.

Hannibal Buress

The jokes now, it's just more stories and personal experiences. And just talking about things that really happened. It's just becoming more comfortable as a performer, sharing my opinions on things, or things that've happened to me. That's where it's really going.

Greg Fitzsimmons

If we don't have souls then who am I talking to when I keep telling myself to be good?

Greg Gutfeld

The Islamophobia phobes, (ph) the writers and the editors and the talking heads who deny an existence of evil while blaming those who speak up. There no difference - different than the apologists for communism. As communism killed millions, they, they denied it.