Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

Friedrich Nietzsche

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

John Prescott

There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.

Norman Granz

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

Noel Fisher

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

Ninette de Valois

No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress.

Nita Ambani

I dont like talking about any projects till they solidify and take off.

Mike Vogel

Film is very much about sitting around and talking about ideas, and that's the stuff that I love, but I haven't experienced that yet in the television that I've done so far. It makes me long for movies again because, creatively, I always have a much more fulfilling experience there.

Mike Tyson

I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.

Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Edward Burns

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

Edward Albee

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

Jonathan Dimbleby

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

Kate Thornton

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

Kate Beckinsale

Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

Justin Verlander

I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

Julie Burchill

Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.

Laurie Colwin

And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

Laurie Anderson

All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.

Latrell Sprewell

Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

Laura Bell Bundy

I actually met Larson [Paine] on Larchmont in Los Angeles. He was eating and he stopped me because I was massaging my larynx. I was doing a show and trying to loosen up my throat. He had sort of this southern vibe about eating alone and talking to people. And it was funny because I had just having eaten with Larry O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin.

Laura Bush

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

Lara Flynn Boyle

I love talking about myself.

Thom Yorke

I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.

Thom Yorke

If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.

Thierry Henry

People are talking about me more than they talk about Eastenders.

Terry Thomas

Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used

Terry Pratchett

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

Terry Pratchett

It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

Terry Pratchett

Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.

Tennessee Williams

I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own lifestyle, from what was going on in the world. After I recovered I was amazed at certain people who had died. I hadn't noticed that they had gone. Not friends ... I'm talking about public figures who had passed away.

Terence McKenna

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.