Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winona Ryder

I remember being 18, and my first boyfriend said to me, "Unless you're in the room, you don't know if it's true." We were talking about gossip.

William Safire

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

William S. Burroughs

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.

William Kunstler

When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

William Jennings Bryan

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Violette Leduc

We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

William Shawcross

You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.

William J. Clinton

I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.

William James

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

Will Forte

Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.

Sarah Silverman

Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.

Sarah Silverman

I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.

Samuel P. Huntington

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

William Faulkner

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Willem Dafoe

It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women; I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.

Ronald Reagan

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

Saint Augustine

Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

Winston Churchill

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

Will Rogers

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.

Will Rogers

We do more talking progress than we do progressing.

Zora Neale Hurston

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Yvonne Strahovski

I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault,

William Hazlitt

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Walter Mosley

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

Walter Raleigh

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

Waka Flocka Flame

My watch say I made it, my chains say I'm rich. Diamonds in my mouth got me talking cash s**t.

Yanis Varoufakis

Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.

William P. Leahy

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

Zygmunt Bauman

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Only God knows You’re talking to him now.