Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Ringo Starr

I don't like talking. It's how I'm built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don't mind talking or smiling, it's just I don't do it very much. I haven't got a smiling face or a talking mouth.

Tim Robbins

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

Stevie Nicks

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

Steven Soderbergh

Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.

Steven Soderbergh

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

Reggie White

Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.

Tommy Chong

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.

Tom Tancredo

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

Thomas Keller

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

Vin Scully

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

Victor Garber

One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again.

Vernon Howard

Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate. We're going to do that now. Let's see what we're talking about. All troubled people, which is all people, must if they are going to be delivered from themselves, must make the concession that there is a force, an entity, a power that is higher than their own present nature.

Renee Fleming

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

Thornton Wilder

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

Thomas Otway

Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.

Timothy Dalton

I've never liked talking about my personal life, ever. Ever since I was 20, I've lived in a kind of public arena; and there have been stalkers, blackmailers, death threats, physical violence and threats to friends of mine, colleagues of mine, to myself.

Rumi

Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.

Rumi

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

Rumi

Empathy is even better than talking in one language

Tom Berenger

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders

Todd Helton

We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.

Tony Goldwyn

One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.

Tommy Smothers

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

Steve King

My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the Greek civilization as the Greeks were developing their Age of Reason. And we're talking about the foundation of Western Civilization, and almost concurrently with that, Roman law was emerging as well.

Steve Albini

I don't feel like embarrassing Kurt by talking about what a psycho hosebeast his wife is, especially when he knows it already.

Stephen Covey

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

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.

Steven Pressfield

Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered.