300 Quotes on Talk

• So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.

  Author: David Zucker

• Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

  Author: Jiang Zemin

• Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

  Author: Jack Youngblood

• A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

  Author: Loretta Young

• The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

  Author: Arthur Young

• If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

  Author: Andrew Young

• To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.

  Author: Francis Yockey

• Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

  Author: Steven Wright

• Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• I talk by playing, not by words.

  Author: Bernie Worrell

• The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.

  Author: Lee Womack

• If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.

  Author: Robert Wise

• I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

  Author: Amy Winehouse

• I never have anything to talk about.

  Author: April Winchell

• It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.

  Author: Robbie Williams

• I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

  Author: Montel Williams

• Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

  Author: Mary Williams

• If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

  Author: Bern Williams

• Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

  Author: Roy Wilkins

• The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

  Author: Thornton Wilder

• If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?

  Author: Roger Wicker

• The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.

  Author: Margaret Whiting

• The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

  Author: Katherine Whitehorn

• The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

  Author: Katharine Whitehorn

• Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

  Author: Ellen White

• If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

  Author: James Whistler

• I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

  Author: Lisa Whelchel

• For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

  Author: Donald Westlake

• Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks.

  Author: Ruth Westheimer

• They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

  Author: Kanye West

• I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

  Author: Paul Weller

• With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.

  Author: George Weinberg

• Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.

  Author: Gene Ween

• Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

  Author: John Wayne

• Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.

  Author: Damon Wayans

• The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

  Author: Damon Wayans

• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• Oh, definitely and I talk about all the things that I really needed to make me happy at that point in time were outside of Mississippi, and now all the things that I need to make me happy are back there.

  Author: Sela Ward

• It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

  Author: Fred Ward

• It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

  Author: John Wanamaker

• Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities.

  Author: John Walters

• Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

  Author: John Walters

• America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.

  Author: John Walsh

• When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• I don't talk in ifs.

  Author: Abdurrahman Wahid

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

  Author: Rick Wagoner

• I never talk to tabloids.

  Author: Robert Wagner

• I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.

  Author: Robert Wagner

• When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

  Author: Jane Wagner

• Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

  Author: Tony Visconti

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

  Author: Troy Vincent

• The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

  Author: Ben Vereen

• Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

  Author: Robert Urich

• We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

  Author: Liv Ullmann

• When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• 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

• Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.

  Author: Mike Tyson

• I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

  Author: Mike Tyson

• One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.

  Author: Hunter Tylo

• I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

  Author: Julia Tyler

• 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

• People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

  Author: Scott Turow

• I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.

  Author: Lee Trevino

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

  Author: Lee Trevino

• Most people say they talk to me and I sound older.

  Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

• If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

  Author: Robert Towne

• So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

  Author: Mel Torme

• Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

  Author: Jean Toomer

• Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

  Author: Lily Tomlin

• I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.

  Author: Kiana Tom

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

  Author: J. Tolkien

• An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

  Author: Justin Timberlake

• And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

  Author: John Thorn

• But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

  Author: E. Thompson

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

  Author: E. Thompson

• If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

  Author: Alan Thicke

• I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

  Author: John Tesh

• I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

  Author: Studs Terkel

• The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

  Author: John Templeton

• The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

  Author: William Temple

• I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

  Author: Julie Taymor

• Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

  Author: Deborah Tannen

• The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

  Author: Deborah Tannen

• A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

  Author: Gay Talese

• I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

  Author: William Taft

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

  Author: William Taft

• If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

  Author: Thomas Szasz

• If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

  Author: Thomas Szasz

• Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

  Author: Lynn Swann

• But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

  Author: Janet Suzman

• 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

• People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

  Author: John Sununu

• For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run.

  Author: John Sununu

• Talk radio doesn't need to be political.

  Author: Jim Sullivan

• It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet.

  Author: Jim Sullivan

• I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.

  Author: Alfredo Stroessner

• Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.

  Author: Janet Street-Porter

• I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

  Author: Picabo Street

• I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

  Author: Trish Stratus

• If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.

  Author: Dorothy Stratten

• When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.

  Author: David Strathairn

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

  Author: Yvonne Strahovski

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

  Author: Sharon Stone

• 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 think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• 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

• I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

  Author: Jon Stewart

• Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent.

  Author: Craig Stevens

• I don't talk about my salary.

  Author: Howard Stern

• Let's not talk punishment.

  Author: George Steinbrenner

• Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

  Author: George Steinbrenner

• I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.

  Author: Jock Stein

• 'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties.

  Author: Rod Steiger

• Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

  Author: Ralph Steadman

• 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 work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

  Author: Terence Stamp

• I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

  Author: Sylvester Stallone

• Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.

  Author: Mark Spitz

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

  Author: Art Spiegelman

• But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.

  Author: Scott Speedman

• There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

  Author: Scott Speedman

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

  Author: Aries Spears

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

  Author: Larry Speakes

• There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

  Author: Charles Spalding

• I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

  Author: Wole Soyinka

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

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

  Author: Mira Sorvino

• There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years.

  Author: James Somerville

• Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.

  Author: Leelee Sobieski

• Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

  Author: Tony Snow

• Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.

  Author: John Snow

• Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

  Author: Sydney Smith

• The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

  Author: Mark Smith

• I always try to think before I talk.

  Author: Margaret Smith

• Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

  Author: Margaret Smith

• One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.

  Author: Margaret Smith

• Rich folks always talk hard times.

  Author: Lillian Smith

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

  Author: Elliott Smith

• I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.

  Author: Anna Smith

• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  Author: Tavis Smiley

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  Author: Tavis Smiley

• Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was spending a lot of time in California working there and he didn't really want to spend all his time out there and have his children and his wife on the East Coast.

  Author: Erika Slezak

• I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.

  Author: Peter Singer

• You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• I would love for the time to come where somebody can talk about me and not have to talk about Britney and Christina in the same sentence.

  Author: Jessica Simpson

• I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun.

  Author: Ashlee Simpson

• Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

  Author: Phil Simms

• I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.

  Author: Ron Silver

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

  Author: Joe Shuster

• Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

  Author: George Shultz

• What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.

  Author: Don Shula

• Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• We will talk about cooperation to destroy the disease as soon as we can.

  Author: Thaksin Shinawatra

• When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

  Author: Mark Shields

• As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

  Author: Brad Sherman

• I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

  Author: Sam Sheppard

• It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.

  Author: Cybill Shepherd

• It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

  Author: Cybill Shepherd

• I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.

  Author: Cybill Shepherd

• I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.

  Author: Cybill Shepherd

• Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

  Author: Barry Sheene

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

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• 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

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

  Author: Tupac Shakur

• When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

  Author: Ben Shahn

• I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

  Author: Anna Sewell

• One must steer, not talk.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.

  Author: Tom Selleck

• I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

  Author: Connie Sellecca

• The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

  Author: Jerry Seinfeld

• Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

  Author: Compay Segundo

• They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

  Author: Charles Secondat

• A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

  Author: Tony Scott

• Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

  Author: Tony Scott

• Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

  Author: Tim Scott

• If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

  Author: Ridley Scott

• People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

  Author: Lee Scott

• It would take wild horses to get me to talk.

  Author: Gene Scott

• Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

  Author: Martin Scorsese

• I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

  Author: Jason Schwartzman

• I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff.

  Author: Jason Schwartzman

• And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

  Author: Dwight Schultz

• And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

  Author: Pat Schroeder

• My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

  Author: Liev Schreiber

• I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

  Author: Rose Schneiderman

• I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

  Author: Rose Schneiderman

• I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

  Author: Michael Schiavo

• And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture.

  Author: Michael Schiavo

• People make these comments all the time. They talk about this with their loved ones every day. People's feedings - tube feedings - are stopped across this country every day.

  Author: Michael Schiavo

• If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

  Author: Michael Schenker

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

  Author: Maximilian Schell

• We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

  Author: Robert Scheer

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

  Author: Devon Sawa

• Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

  Author: May Sarton

• 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

• The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

  Author: George Santayana

• There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

  Author: Justin Sane

• You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?

  Author: Richie Sambora

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

  Author: Sallust

• Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• As you get older, you're doing different parts, but the young people, like yourself, they keep you excited, because they'll see Waterfront, and they'll want to talk about it.

  Author: Eva Saint

• I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

  Author: Gabriela Sabatini

• Say, the next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you, will you?

  Author: Morrie Ryskind

• We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

  Author: Lee Ryan

• I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

  Author: Jeri Ryan

• I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

  Author: Richard Russo

• Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

  Author: Muriel Rukeyser

• Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

  Author: Darius Rucker

• The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

  Author: Mike Rounds

• Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

  Author: Leo Rosten

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

  Author: Judith Rossner

• The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

  Author: Portia Rossi

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

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.

  Author: Diana Ross

• Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

  Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

• If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

  Author: Andy Rooney

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

  Author: Jon Ronson

• So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services.

  Author: Kevin Rollins

• Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

  Author: Kevin Rollins

• I talk so much about sex that girls just want to meet me.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.

  Author: Norman Rockwell

• Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!

  Author: George Rockwell

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

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.

  Author: Smokey Robinson

• Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.

  Author: Anwar Robinson

• There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

  Author: Jay Roach

• On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

  Author: Jay Roach

• It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.

  Author: Jay Roach

• The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.

  Author: Jay Roach

• 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

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