Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Farrell

Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

Paula Poundstone

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

Paul Walker

People are often talking when they are not supposed to be.

Philip Glass

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

Peter Thiel

The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.

Pema Chodron

If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.

Peter Jurasik

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

Phyllis Bottome

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

Phyllis Bottome

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

Rachel Cohn

With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

Placido Domingo

To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.

Terence McKenna

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

Ted Danson

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

Ted Allen

It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

Selena Gomez

I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

Sean Kinney

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

Si Robertson

My wife asked me about that: "What happened to your beard?" I said, "What are you talking about?" She said, "Hey, the right side is shorter than the left." I said, "You gotta be kidding me." So I went in there and looked, and I combed it out and I said, "I don't know, that's just the way it grows."

Sharleen Spiteri

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

Shantel VanSanten

I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.

Lewis Thomas

I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.

Laura Prepon

When you work with an actor, it's cool because they know what it's like to be directed themselves. Jodie directed a scene with me and Taylor that was when she starts talking to me again in prison and it's our first actual confrontation that we have, where some stuff comes out.

Larry Ellison

Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

Larry David

I don't like talking to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with.

Larry David

I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

Kylie Minogue

My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster. But I don't discount love when I'm talking about not getting married. I could... it's just something I haven't wanted to do yet.

Stephanie Beacham

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

Viktor E. Frankl

We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

V. S. Pritchett

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

Suzanne Collins

I'm not good at talking about myself.

Tariq Ramadan

It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are no longer talking about Islam, they know they will have to talk about something else, which brings the spotlight on their inefficiency. They will have to talk about domestic social and economic issues and they will have to justify their foreign policy, which is obviously something they need to avoid at all costs.

Steve Spurrier

The Pope is 77 years old and he's in charge of a billion people. All I have to do is put 11 on the field.

Steve Spurrier

In Knoxville, they're still doing cartwheels because they went 7-6 and won a bowl game.

Steve Spurrier

You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.