Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin McKinley

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

Robert Rauschenberg

I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

Sarah Paulson

I like that feeling in your brain when you've got seven things that you're holding in one moment-you heard that person cough, you heard that person laugh, you're also saying your line, you're also listening to the person who's talking to you.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Rickey Henderson

I love talking about baserunning.

Rian Johnson

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

Red Barber

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

Rebecca Hall

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

Rob Bell

When I talk about the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, I'm talking about our facing that which most terrifies us about ourselves, embracing it and fearing it no longer, refusing to allow it to exist separate from the rest of our being, resting assured that we are loved and we belong and we are going to be just fine.

Richard Pryor

To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up... Your muscles trick you; they did me.

Richard Rohr

The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine.

Tucker Max

Corporate tweets are like one robot talking to another.

Tucker Carlson

I very much like "Canada, the adults are talking" stance.

Tracy Pollan

I never questioned I would have any trouble doing what I wanted to do. I'm not talking about getting to a certain position - or to success. It was just that I knew I wanted to act, and that I would make my living that way. Having the unconditional support of your parents is really freeing.

Verne Troyer

If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

Rodrigo Rato

We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

Robin Williams

They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it.

Tracy Chapman

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

Tony Snow

It's hard to describe, but there are times when... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up - to speak to Him about us!

Sam Brownback

If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That's insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.

Sam Altman

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

Ryan Cayabyab

The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.

Ryan Cabrera

People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves.

Ryan Giggs

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

Roy Ayers

But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.

Roxane Gay

Twitter has allowed the conversation to broaden and become more inclusive. At times, the conversation is really tense but that's because we're talking about really important issues. It's not going to be easy but at least the conversations are happening.

Roxane Gay

We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.

Robert Jay Lifton

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

Rodman Philbrick

I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.

Rocco DiSpirito

Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.

Robertson Davies

It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion...

Vincent McNabb

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Willa Cather

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.