Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Didion

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

Jimi Hendrix

There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

Emma Roberts

I just don't like talking about my relationships or anything like that, in any reference.

Emma Stone

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

Emma Watson

My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she has kind of like a translator so she can understand without having to ask me, "What on Earth are you talking about when you say 'nackered'?"

John McCain

When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.

John Hawkes

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

Ralph Bakshi

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.​ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold​, comes at long last over everyone.

Shane Claiborne

My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

Shane Claiborne

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Sean Bean

You've only got to walk into a pub or a café or anything and you'll find people talking about topics they're very unhappy with. You feel as though things are being eroded and people don't know where they belong anymore.

Schoolboy Q

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

Mick Jagger

There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist, but you are talking through them to people who presumably are fans of the Rolling Stones. The interviews give you a chance to say a few things and maybe clear up some of the things people read about the band.

Michelle Obama

And that's my message to voters, this isn't about Barack, it's not about person on that ballot -- its about you. And for most of the people we are talking to [blacks], a Democratic ticket is the clear ticket that we should be voting on, regardless of who said what or did this -- that shouldn't even come into the equation.

John Frusciante

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

John Oliver

The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.

John Mulaney

I'm a very straightforward person. But that's fine for a comedian. Because a lot of times you're talking about everyone else.

John Dewey

Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.

John Berger

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Jimmy Fallon

I can watch an episode of Jerry Seinfeld, and by the end, I'm just walking around my house, you know, talking like Jerry Seinfeld. 'What is that? What are you doing? Who is it? What's going' - you know, I just had that thing, when I grew up, I'd just start talking like people. You know, I always had that.

Geoff Davis

Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.

Garry Shandling

I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over.

Garrison Keillor

Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans.

Gabriel Mann

If we're talking music I could go on and on and on.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Frank Crowninshield

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

Frank Carlucci

The problem is that neither the M1 nor the M60 or indeed neither any tank, has sufficient ground pressure to drive a [bulldozer] blade into even marginally hard ground. They are not bulldozers, they are tanks, whether you are talking about the M1 or the M60's. So if you are going to dig in a tank, you need to have some kind of equipment.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.

John Coyle

As soon as you start talking about Scouting, there's an immediate connection and brotherhood.

Joel Osteen

Instead of talking yourself out of your future start talking yourself into it.

Joel Osteen

If you'll spend time praying for people instead of talking about them, you'll get better results.

Jimmy Page

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.