Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Rickles

When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.

Dale Carnegie

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

Dale Carnegie

In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.

Craig McCracken

It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

Craig Newmark

From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I'd ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it - and then ask for more feedback.

Daniel Radcliffe

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

Dylan Moran

The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

Andy Warhol

I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

Ann Romney

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.

Angela Braly

People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

Analeigh Tipton

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.

Anatole France

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

Anne Enright

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking

Chuck Palahniuk

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

Chuck Palahniuk

The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.

Chuck Berry

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

Anne Bancroft

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Anne Tyler

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

Anne Rice

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.

Anna Friel

My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.

Andrew Sullivan

In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

Andy Kindler

Eddie Izzard is doing his show in French... Will he be able to fake ad-lib as well in other languages? He's been speaking French for a while now, but he's talking about doing his act in German. Haven't the German people suffered enough?

Andy Murray

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

Ambrose Bierce

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.

Alice Schwarzer

If I read the Bible, I can also find a few harsh verdicts. Every religion can be abused. We're not talking here about religion and faith. We are talking about the politicization of Islam, and, by the way, it is first and foremost exerting pressure on the majority of peaceful Muslims who live here in Germany.

Alice Sebold

Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us had needed it. And when I wasn’t watching I could hear the others talking to those they loved on Earth: just as fruitlessly as me, I’m afraid. A one-sided card cajoling and coaching of the young, a one way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that could never get signed.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

Alexander Ovechkin

Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.

Alexander McCall Smith

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

Drew Barrymore

If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me.

Doug E. Fresh

It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a certain part of my throat, so that I am accurate every time. It's not like whatever happens happens, this is a focused sound.

Don DeLillo

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.