Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Atwood

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Marcel Marceau

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

Kid Rock

I'm single and loving it. It is always weird talking about that stuff. When someone is talking about who they are going out with, I am always like, who cares? Talk about your music or something.

Kenny G

You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Kelly LeBrock

I want to get the American people to start sitting at a table together and talking to each other, holding court, and enjoying a meal - and it doesn't have an expense.

Katie Leung

I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!

Mark Twain

I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

Paul Reiser

People come up to us and ask how we knew so much about their own family... I'm talking about people from faraway places, too. I get people from Turkey and Chile coming up to me and saying I wrote about their family.

Paul Giamatti

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

Patrick Ness

That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.

Patrick Rothfuss

Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

Lakhdar Brahimi

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

L. Neil Smith

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

Lilly Pulitzer

There will be a moment of silence while our prints do the talking.

P. J. O'Rourke

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

Paul Mooney

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

Paul Buchheit

Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.

Paul Cellucci

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

Oscar Wilde

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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.

Nathan Fielder

In my personal life, I will do whatever it takes to make a situation comfortable if I sense - if I'm talking to someone [and] I sense there's a silence, I'll try to fill that gap. It makes me very anxious when things get uncomfortable.

Nathan Fillion

I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

Ken Salazar

We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.

Ken Adam

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.