Quotes on Talking

Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

Author: Ian Allison

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

Author: Red Barber

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

Author: Felix Bloch

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

Author: Kevin Brady

We are talking about predictable recurring flooding.

Author: Robert Brady

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

Author: Helen Brown

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Author: Art Buchwald

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

Author: Bill Cartwright

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

Author: Tracy Chapman

Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.

Author: Chubby Checker

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

Author: Larry David

Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.

Author: Geoff Davis

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Author: Rene Descartes

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Author: Walt Disney

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!

Author: Richard Fleeshman

If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.

Author: Arthur Godfrey

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

Author: Norman Granz

Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy.

Author: Michael Hall

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Author: Lionel Hampton

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Author: Vance Havner

Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

Author: Jeff Hawkins

Stop talking. Start walking.

Author: L. Heroux

I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.

Author: Freddie Hubbard

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Author: Kin Hubbard

We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.

Author: Daniel Johns

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!

Author: Bert Kalmar

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

Author: Bob Kane

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Author: Charlie Kaufman

I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks.

Author: Mark Kelly

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.

Author: Graham Kennedy

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.

Author: Linda Lavin

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

Author: Loretta Lynn

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

Author: Marcel Marceau

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

Author: Jenny McCarthy

I'll let the racket do the talking.

Author: John McEnroe

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

Author: Arthur Miller

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

Author: Randy Newman

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

I can let the team do the talking for me.

Author: Bob Paisley

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

Author: Orhan Pamuk

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

Author: Minnie Pearl

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

Author: Slick Rick

Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else.

Author: Frances Rodman

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

Author: Joe Rogan

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Author: Pete Sampras

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

Author: Carl Sandberg

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Author: George Schultz

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

Author: Irwin Shaw

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

Author: Shel Silverstein

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

Author: Tommy Smothers

Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

Author: Latrell Sprewell

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.

Author: William Stafford

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

Author: Studs Terkel

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

Author: David Wallace

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.

Author: Lucinda Williams

Modeling is more important than the talking we do.

Author: Wayne Williams