Quotes on Talk

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

Author: Dan Abrams

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Author: Gracie Allen

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Author: Jane Austen

I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point.

Author: Frankie Avalon

Why talk when you can paint?

Author: Milton Avery

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

Author: Syd Barrett

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.

Author: Boris Becker

I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.

Author: Jonathan Bennett

Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?

Author: Edgar Bergen

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

Author: Eric Berne

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

Author: Otis Blackwell

We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.

Author: Peter Bondra

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

Author: Arthur Boyd

Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.

Author: Lara Boyle

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

Author: Patrick Buchanan

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Author: Abigail Buren

I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.

Author: Steve Burns

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

Author: Carter Burwell

I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.

Author: Ruth Buzzi

I'm guarded; I don't talk much.

Author: David Byrne

It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.

Author: Neve Campbell

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

Author: Truman Capote

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

Author: Catherine Catherine II

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.

Author: Lincoln Chafee

Tombstones don't talk back.

Author: Leland Chapman

When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

Author: Tracy Chapman

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years.

Author: Steven Cojocaru

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

Author: Mason Cooley

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

Author: Anderson Cooper

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Author: Doug Coupland

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Author: Tom Cruise

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

Author: Macaulay Culkin

I talk too much.

Author: Jamie Curtis

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

Author: Peter Davies

Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

Author: Al Davis

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Author: Bette Davis

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

Author: Alan Dershowitz

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Author: Diogenes

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

Author: Byron Dorgan

I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.

Author: Marjory Douglas

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Author: John Dryden

I just talk, and I guess some of my views came out.

Author: Sandy Duncan

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

Author: Peter Falk

I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.

Author: Leslie Fiedler

I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

Author: Jodie Foster

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

Author: Boutros Ghali

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.

Author: Maurice Gibb

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

Author: Natalie Goldberg

He who talks much cannot talk well.

Author: Carlo Goldoni

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot.

Author: Justin Guarini

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Author: Mark Hansen

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

Author: Anne Heche

It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him.

Author: Thierry Henry

Always do something that requires you and your date to talk.

Author: Steven Hill

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

Author: Philip Hoffman

We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.

Author: Peter Hook

I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

Author: James Inhofe

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

Author: Patricia Ireland

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

Author: Michael Ironside

Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

Author: LaToya Jackson

We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it.

Author: Marc Jacobs

I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

Author: Brion James

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Author: Jerry Jenkins

We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

Author: Walid Jumblatt

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

Author: Jane Kaczmarek

I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together.

Author: Robbie Keane

I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you.

Author: Graham Kennedy

Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?

Author: Black Kettle

The department was set up primarily to protect us from another terrorist attack from Islamic terrorists, and yet they talk about everything but that.

Author: Peter King

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

Author: C. Koop

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

Author: Jerzy Kosinski

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

Author: John Kricfalusi

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

Author: Hugh Laurie

Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.

Author: Christine Lavin

It's hard to talk about yourself.

Author: Sugar Leonard

I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.

Author: Mary Lincoln

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Author: Charles Lindbergh

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

Author: Jeremy London

They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetary.

Author: Meyer London

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

Author: Gary Lucas

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

Author: Joe Mantegna

I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.

Author: Garry Marshall

I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world.

Author: John McCloy

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

Author: Radha Mitchell

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

Author: Wilson Mizner

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Author: Moliere

And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.

Author: Richard Morris

I'll talk. You'll listen.

Author: Bruce Nauman

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Author: Howard Nemerov

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Author: Howard Nemerov

We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

Author: Sarah Palin

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

Author: Sean Paul

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Author: Norman Peale

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Author: Francis Picabia

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Author: Francis Picabia

If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.

Author: Jimmy Piersall

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Author: Chaim Potok

They talk most who have the least to say.

Author: Matthew Prior

They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.

Author: Matthew Prior

Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk.

Author: Jeff Probst

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

Author: Pythagoras

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

Author: Dan Quayle

If I can talk, I can sing.

Author: John Raitt

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

Author: Dan Rather

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

Author: Nancy Reagan

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Author: Antoine Rivarol

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

Author: Jon Ronson

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

Author: Gavin Rossdale

I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.

Author: Judith Rossner

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

Author: Sallust

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

Author: Susan Sarandon

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

Author: Devon Sawa

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

Author: Maximilian Schell

One must steer, not talk.

Author: Lucius Seneca

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.

Author: Tupac Shakur

The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

Author: Garry Shandling

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Author: Irwin Shaw

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

Author: Barry Sheene

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

Author: Joe Shuster

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios.

Author: Gordon Sinclair

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

Author: Elliott Smith

Rich folks always talk hard times.

Author: Lillian Smith

I always try to think before I talk.

Author: Margaret Smith

I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

Author: Mira Sorvino

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Author: Thomas Sowell

Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.

Author: Larry Speakes

I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like.

Author: Aries Spears

Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.

Author: Art Spiegelman

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Author: Aaron Stanford

I don't talk about my salary.

Author: Howard Stern

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Author: Patrick Stewart

He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.

Author: Emma Stone

I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?

Author: Sharon Stone

Talk radio doesn't need to be political.

Author: Jim Sullivan

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'

Author: Ron Suskind

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Author: William Taft

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

Author: E. Thompson

I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Author: J. Tolkien

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

Author: Lee Trevino

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

Author: Anne Tyler

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

Author: Bob Uecker

Obviously we will talk about doing everything we can to make our sport as safe as possible.

Author: Troy Vincent

I never talk to tabloids.

Author: Robert Wagner

I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out.

Author: Rick Wagoner