Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lahr

Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

Jimmy Carl Black

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

Julie Burchill

Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.

Judith Jamison

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

Judith Light

It happens all the time! People are always talking about that explosive moment in their family history that sort of changed everything and rattled the cage, and more times than not it has nothing to do with trans issues. That's why people are relating to this show [Transparent], because our family is their family and they understand that dynamic.

Judith Orloff

The most influential person in the room isn't the one who is being a bully, talking loudly, and imposing him- or herself on others. Surrendered people understand that true power comes from being respectful and listening.

Katherine Harris

So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.

Karen Armstrong

I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.

Kate McKinnon

I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

Karen Joy Fowler

Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.

Karen Kingsbury

There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

Justin Bartha

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

Lawrence Welk

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

Lawrence Welk

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

Joy Williams

As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

Joy Behar

You can see a lot of politics on a lot of different channels. I'm not interested, really, in talking in some wonky conversation about politics, though. It's not my speed. I'm not interested in the ins and outs of health care.

Joy Behar

I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.

Joyce Brothers

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand.

Justin Bieber

At concerts it makes me happy to see my Beliebers talking to each other because i made them family.

Jules Renard

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy, England is talking about splitting with Wales and Scotland and England. And it goes on and on and on.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

Julius Peppers

How can you say you want to be somewhere when you're not really sure if they want you there because they're not even talking to you?

Ouida

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

Kanye West

If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?

Paul Krugman

I'm especially baffled by the idea of taking insurance against a U.S. default. If America defaults, we're talking about a chaotic world - Mad Max, more or less - in which case, who imagines that insurance claims will be honored?

Patrick Stewart

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Patrick Fugit

One day, youre a nobody, and the next, youre in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

John Philpot Curran

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

Mark Spitz

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the moustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it — and everybody was talking about it — that I decided to keep it.

Nick Lowe

And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite a fan of. I heard him talking in a rather similar way on the radio. He said I'm the sort of person - I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was rather interesting - he said I'm the sort of person that can be reduced to tears in an empty church and feel like I'm the CEO of the Devil's organization in a full one, and I tend to feel like that as well. I love empty churches and going into them looking around, but I'm not a churchgoer at all.

Paul Neilan

And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.

Paul Farmer

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.