Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

Isaac Mizrahi

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

Isaac Asimov

One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better

Iris Chang

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

Nate Burleson

I love hip-hop. I'm big into Jay-Z, Kanye, Little Wayne. Those are everyone's favorites, I know. I just like the fact that when they get on track and talk about whatever they're talking about, they have supreme confidence. That's pretty much what you need to have on the field. I like the way they approach their music, they feel like no one can touch them.

Morgan Freeman

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

Milan Kundera

If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some of them will join in the kill, the others will discreetly pretend to know nothing, hear nothing, so you can go right on seeing them and talking to them. That second category, discreet and tactful, those are your friends. 'Friends' in the modern sense of the term. Listen, Jean-Marc, I've known that forever.

Joschka Fischer

Everybody is talking today about the economy.

Jonathan Stroud

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.

Kevin Brady

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

Kevin Bales

It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.

Jimmy Carter

We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

John Cage

When I hear what we call ‘music,’ it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic — here on Sixth Avenue, for instance — I don’t have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound I don’t need sound to talk to me.

John C. Maxwell

Negative talking is contagious.

James Patterson

Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?" Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten. Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?" Any nausea? Headache?" Yep. And it's standing here talking to me.

Emile Hirsch

Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

Ellis Peters

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

The day after (Hurricane Katrina) hit, we were talking about doing something.

All of the things we are talking about are already under way.

All right, we're talking about someone who you know very well.

Helen McCrory

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realised I was in it.

Henry L. Stimson

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

Kurt Cobain

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Kevyn Aucoin

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

Khalil Gibran

I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

Kesha

The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.

Jonathan Swift

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Jonathan Nolan

I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to tell stories and so you hope that they will have resonance for people and for the kind of things you're talking about.

Jonathan Sacks

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things...

Jonathan Safran Foer

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits....

Napoleon Hill

When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.

Oscar de la Renta

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.