Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Eleanor Roosevelt

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Edward Abbey

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

Eddie Redmayne

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

Atul Gawande

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

Ben Horowitz

When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.

Ben Jonson

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Ralph Carter

When I got into Irving's, ... everyone was talking about it.

Alfred Kazin

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Adam Duritz

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

Abel Ferrara

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

Abel Ferrara

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

Aaron Levie

You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.

A. A. Milne

Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

Agatha Christie

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

Adriana Trigiani

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

Adrian Mitchell

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

Adam McKay

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

Ada Leverson

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

Alex Steffen

For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.

Alex Pettyfer

I'm so terrible. When it comes to talking to women, I'm the worst. I don't know what to say. I come over very, very geeky.

Karen Finney

We're doing the work, we're not just talking about it.

We're kind of low-key. We don't like a lot of attention. Keep talking about the other teams, and we'll just come out and do our job.

Clifford D. Simak

I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.

Dwyane Wade

Immediately after games, we're talking about what we need to do for the next game. We're not satisfied in the moment that we're in.

Dwyane Wade

Yeah, at first people were talking about me. But now everyone is wearing their clothes more fitted.

Colin Powell

We are not shrinking from talking to Saudis or anyone else in the region, but it is up to each nation in the region to decide on its own how it will proceed and at what pace. There are other nations in the region that had similar policies to Saudi Arabia that are starting to make changes, such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Morocco. And so it takes time but when you see the need for such changes, then changes tend to follow.

Herbie Hancock

To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When I vote, I'm a citizen.

We've pitched them and are talking with them. Nothing is confirmed.

We're tying our ties while we're talking to our team about focus.

Louis C. K.

All talking is good, negative and positive. Stabbing is bad; talking is good.