Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Vreeland

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

Demetri Martin

To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

Daniel Handler

The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.

Dana Perino

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

Dana Perino

I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or Twitter. I'm talking hard-copy note.

Dan Ariely

Interesting thing that is happening in American society is that people are starting to talk about money. I don't know how you feel about this, but for a long time, nobody was talking about money. It was a secret. And it's kind of very interesting because we do lots of stuff to portray to people about how much money we have, the clothes we wear and the cars we have and the house - they all kind of depict to other people, signal how much money we make, but we don't talk about it specifically.

Craig Ferguson

Things were very different back in 1992. There was unrest in the Middle East, we had a gridlocked Congress, and everybody was talking about Bill Cosby.

Craig Ferguson

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

Conor McGregor

Whoever said it's tough at the top is talking absolute sh*t.

Elizabeth Scott

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy. Being happy makes you want to talk, to go over everything, to share it so you can remember it all over again.

Elizabeth Scott

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.

Elizabeth Hurley

I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.

Eli Broad

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

Eli Roth

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

Asghar Farhadi

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

Ashleigh Brilliant

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

Antonio Banderas

I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to be free enough to try to understand what he wants from you. Especially when that director has a tremendous personality. And I'm talking about people like Pedro Almodovar and Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen. And you have to adapt. If you don't adapt to them, you are off the thing.

Brian Tracy

Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."

Brian Tracy

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brendan Behan

When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Brad Gilbert

Tim Henman has the all-time Betty Crocker draw. We're talking Easy Bake Oven.

Jamie Hyneman

We don't have formal training, that makes what we're experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Denis Leary

I actually like talking.

Deb Caletti

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.

Dido Armstrong

It's much better when I go out with my mates and we stop talking about me like I'm some sort of egomaniac. It's great when we can just have a drink.

Dennis Kucinich

When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.

Edward Snowden

I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.

Edward Furlong

If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

Elizabeth Kostova

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

William Shakespeare

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.