300 Quotes on Talking

• Beneath the shroud of stillness lies an inexplicable force that draws the soul into depths often masked by noise.

  Author: Evanee Callius

• There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

  Author: Eric Zorn

• Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

  Author: James Woods

• He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.

  Author: Gene Wolfe

• I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.

  Author: Richard Wilson

• It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

  Author: Luke Wilson

• Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.

  Author: James Wilson

• Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

  Author: Earl Wilson

• I enjoy talking to fans.

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• Modeling is more important than the talking we do.

  Author: Wayne Williams

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

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

  Author: Juan Williams

• I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

  Author: Jack Wild

• I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.

  Author: Reggie White

• Talking Heads, for me and Chris, was a very personal thing that we shared with a lot of people. In a way, I'm glad it's over, because it allows us to move beyond the restrictions that followed.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• 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

• I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• 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

• Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

  Author: Caspar Weinberger

• One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

  Author: Simone Weil

• If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

  Author: Jenny Weber

• You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.

  Author: Gary Webb

• Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.

  Author: Crystal Waters

• I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.

  Author: Lew Wasserman

• I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

  Author: Fred Ward

• Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army.

  Author: Rob Walton

• The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

  Author: John Walters

• I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

  Author: Horace Walpole

• I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

  Author: David Walliams

• 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 remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.

  Author: Henry Villard

• My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

  Author: Antonio Villaraigosa

• Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

  Author: Ville Valo

• You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.

  Author: Midge Ure

• The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

  Author: Miguel Unamuno

• Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

  Author: Tracey Ullman

• I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.

  Author: Mike Tyson

• In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

  Author: Ike Turner

• If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

  Author: Sojourner Truth

• Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

  Author: Harry Truman

• If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

  Author: Verne Troyer

• I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!

  Author: Joanna Trollope

• If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

  Author: Rip Torn

• Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

  Author: Mel Torme

• The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

  Author: Alvin Toffler

• You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

  Author: George Thorogood

• Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

  Author: Irving Thalberg

• Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

  Author: William Thackeray

• There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about.

  Author: John Tesh

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

  Author: Studs Terkel

• There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

  Author: Wanda Sykes

• The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

• The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

  Author: Robert Surtees

• When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

  Author: John Sununu

• I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

  Author: Harry Sullivan

• Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.

  Author: Theodore Sturgeon

• Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.

  Author: Madeleine Stowe

• So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

  Author: Emma Stone

• There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.

  Author: Louis Stokes

• Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

  Author: James Stockdale

• Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• 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 would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

  Author: Kristen Stewart

• The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

  Author: Robert Stern

• There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.

  Author: Peter Steele

• 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

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

  Author: William Stafford

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

  Author: Latrell Sprewell

• When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

• We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• 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 find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.

  Author: Suzanne Somers

• I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

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

  Author: Tommy Smothers

• As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

  Author: L. Smith

• I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

  Author: John Smith

• We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.

  Author: Bubba Smith

• We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

  Author: Peter Singer

• I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.

  Author: Gene Simmons

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

  Author: Shel Silverstein

• Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

  Author: Don Shula

• I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

  Author: Nigel Short

• States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.

  Author: John Shimkus

• You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

  Author: Peter Shilton

• 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

• I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.

  Author: Rupert Sheldrake

• I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.

  Author: Jules Shear

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

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

  Author: Omar Sharif

• The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.

  Author: Jonathan Shapiro

• I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.

  Author: Donna Shalala

• Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

  Author: Harry Seidler

• We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

  Author: Kyra Sedgwick

• Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

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

  Author: George Schultz

• I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint that which you need to have and own things - to breed, to think, to create - is going on everywhere, not just on this planet or in the space around it.

  Author: Dwight Schultz

• I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

  Author: Rick Schroder

• Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.

  Author: Liev Schreiber

• I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

  Author: Mike Schmidt

• I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.

  Author: Pierre Schaeffer

• I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting.

  Author: Gus Sant

• 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

• 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

• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  Author: R. Salvatore

• I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

  Author: Harrison Salisbury

• Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.

  Author: Bob Saget

• Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

  Author: Mark Rydell

• Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.

  Author: Paul 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

• Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

  Author: Juan Rulfo

• I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

  Author: Brandon Routh

• I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.

  Author: Mickey Rourke

• If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

  Author: Guido Rossum

• I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

  Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

• I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

  Author: Henry Rollins

• I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

  Author: Henry Rollins

• Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

  Author: Wayne Rogers

• Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

  Author: Joe Rogan

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

  Author: Joe Rogan

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

  Author: Frances Rodman

• Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

  Author: Dennis Rodman

• I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

  Author: Dennis Rodman

• 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

• I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

  Author: Knute Rockne

• Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

  Author: Kid Rock

• The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

  Author: Johnny Rivers

• Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.

  Author: Terry Riley

• What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

  Author: Alan Rickman

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

  Author: Slick Rick

• If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

  Author: Bill Richardson

• I love talking about Scientology.

  Author: Giovanni Ribisi

• Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

  Author: Caroline Rhea

• Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

  Author: Oliver Reed

• It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

  Author: Eric Raymond

• We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

  Author: Ramakrishna

• The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?

  Author: Mick Ralphs

• But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

  Author: Ted Rall

• Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.

  Author: Franklin Raines

• I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

  Author: Trevor Rabin

• When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

  Author: Trevor Rabin

• So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

  Author: Colin Quinn

• The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality.

  Author: Richard Price

• There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.

  Author: John Prescott

• If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

  Author: Victoria Pratt

• I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

  Author: Susan Powter

• The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

  Author: Jon Porter

• Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.

  Author: Pete Pont

• The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

  Author: Christopher Plummer

• When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

  Author: Plato

• How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

  Author: Plato

• Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

  Author: Plato

• One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

  Author: Mary Pipher

• I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on "Friends" or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.

  Author: Matthew Perry

• I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

  Author: Luke Perry

• Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

  Author: Ross Perot

• Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

  Author: Shimon Peres

• 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

• The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

  Author: Evan Parker

• They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

  Author: Joe Pantoliano

• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

  Author: Saskya Pandita

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

  Author: Orhan Pamuk

• I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.

  Author: Brian Palma

• I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

  Author: Brian Palma

• When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• I can let the team do the talking for me.

  Author: Bob Paisley

• All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

  Author: Camille Paglia

• I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

  Author: Ignacy Paderewski

• For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

  Author: Butch Otter

• When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

  Author: Peter O'Toole

• Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

  Author: Leo Ornstein

• I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.

  Author: Daniel Okrent

• Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

  Author: Denis Norden

• But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

  Author: Leonard Nimoy

• This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.

  Author: Leonard Nimoy

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

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

  Author: Don Nickles

• 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

• It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

  Author: James Newman

• It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

  Author: Bob Newhart

• There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

  Author: John Neumann

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

  Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

• We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.

  Author: David Neeleman

• My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

  Author: Steve Nash

• We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

  Author: Kate Mulgrew

• I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

  Author: Alonzo Mourning

• I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

  Author: David Morse

• In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

  Author: Robert Morgan

• One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

  Author: Robert Morgan

• Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.

  Author: Michael Moorer

• The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be.

  Author: Isaac Mizrahi

• I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

  Author: Adrian Mitchell

• If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

  Author: Liza Minelli

• I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet.

  Author: Shannon Miller

• All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

  Author: Arthur Miller

• A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

  Author: Arthur Miller

• It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.

  Author: John Mica

• The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about.

  Author: Tom Metzger

• No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

  Author: Howard Metzenbaum

• To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

  Author: Grace Metalious

• Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

  Author: Grace Metalious

• Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.

  Author: Maria Menounos

• Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

  Author: John Mellencamp

• The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

• Talking about the show reminds you of things that you went through. So it's fun. When the show was on, I couldn't have handled it. I didn't want that direct connection.

  Author: Colm Meaney

• I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

  Author: Tim McGraw

• If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

  Author: Roger McGough

• I'll let the racket do the talking.

  Author: John McEnroe

• Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

  Author: Josh McDowell

• As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

  Author: Josh McDowell

• To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

  Author: Bruce McCulloch

• 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.

  Author: Craig McCracken

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

  Author: Jenny McCarthy

• I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

  Author: James McAvoy

• I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it may be, and let's see what the outcome is, which is why we are having this International panel which we are all talking about.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

  Author: Elsa Maxwell

• Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

  Author: Steve Martin

• Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Author: Steve Martin

• I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.

  Author: Demetri Martin

• I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.

  Author: Wynton Marsalis

• Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

  Author: Branford Marsalis

• Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

  Author: Marc Maron

• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  Author: Dan Marino

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

  Author: Marcel Marceau

• At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.

  Author: Shirley Manson

• I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.

  Author: Gabriel Mann

• I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

  Author: Wilma Mankiller

• I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

  Author: Joseph Mankiewicz

• Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

  Author: Chuck Mangione

• A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

  Author: Jena Malone

• I love talking about movies that mean something to me.

  Author: Jena Malone

• They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.

  Author: Bill Maher

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  Author: Patrick Macnee

• That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.

  Author: Gavin MacLeod

• The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

  Author: Kyle MacLachlan

• On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

  Author: Hugh Mackay

• It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

  Author: Rose Macaulay

• I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

  Author: Yo-Yo Ma

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

  Author: Loretta Lynn

• The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

  Author: Clare Luce

• The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.

  Author: Mike Lowry

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  Author: H. Lovecraft

• There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

  Author: Walter Lord

• I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

  Author: Mario Lopez

• My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.

  Author: Lindsay Lohan

• Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.

  Author: Donal Logue

• When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government.

  Author: David Lloyd

• I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

  Author: David Lloyd

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