100+ Talking Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

topic: Photography, Taken, Talking, Talking And Listening

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

- Aaron Stanford

topic: Talking, Stories, Scripts

When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.

- Abbas Kiarostami

source: "With Borrowed Eyes: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with David Sterritt, www.filmcomment.com. July/August 2000.

topic: Thinking, Talking, People

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

- Abdallah II

topic: Issues, Iran, Talking

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

topic: Jobs, Children, Talking

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

- Abel Ferrara

topic: Talking

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

- Abel Ferrara

source: Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

topic: Talking, Dying, Fans

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

- Ada Leverson

topic: Talking, People, May

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

- Adam Brody

topic: Real, Talking, Care

Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

- Adam Driver

topic: Marine, Talking, Feelings

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

- Adam Duritz

topic: Talking, Important

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

- Adam McKay

source: "An Open Letter to the State of Alabama" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.

topic: Talking, People, Alabama, Handouts, People Talking

I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky

- Adam Rapp

source: Adam Rapp (2011). “33 Snowfish”, p.35, Candlewick Press

topic: Song, Heart, Talking, Blackbirds

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Father, Talking, Stories, Bedtime Stories

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Girl, College, Talking, College Girl

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

- Adelbert von Chamisso

source: Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.50, Mondial

topic: Art, Loss, Talking

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

- Adrian Mitchell

topic: Talking, World, Want, Way Of Talking, Talking To Strangers

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

- Adriana Trigiani

topic: Talking, Roots, Would Be, Young Writers

I had the honor to meet Geraldine Ferraro on a few occasions over the years at the DNC and what struck me was how she managed to be both gutsy and graceful at the same time. Without a doubt she was a trailblazer who not only stepped outside the box but who dared to redefine it. I always left her presence with the sense that she truly knew what she was talking about but that she never felt the need to browbeat you with it - instead she inspired people to listen and then act, and to me thats the hallmark of a true leader.

- Adrienne Maloof

topic: Talking, Years, People, Trailblazers

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

- Afrika Bambaataa

source: "Q & A: Afrika Bambaataa Spins Hip-Hop Knowledge". Q&A with Simon McCormack, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

topic: Thinking, Rapper, Talking

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

- Agatha Christie

topic: Talking, Likes, Hercule Poirot

In interviews, on the set, talking to people, I'll just start talking about my parents' divorce, and go on and on. My mom's always like, 'You don't have to be that honest. You have to be more fake.' You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

- Agnes Bruckner

topic: Mom, Divorce, Talking, Parents Divorce

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Talking, People, Sacred, Theory Of Life

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

topic: Fire, Talking, Apples

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

- Ahmet Zappa

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Running, Talking, Together

It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I was really happy. I kept talking about myself, and didn't hear anything about Nana. But now that I know you better; I know you wouldn't say anything.

- Ai Yazawa

topic: Talking, Say Anything, Tokyo

Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Talking, Christ, Glory

I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

- Aime Cesaire

topic: Talking, Land, Essence, Artistic Creation

We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.

- Akbar Ganji

topic: Talking, Nuclear, Outlook, Nuclear Disarmament

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

- Akira Kurosawa

source: Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie (1987). “Rashomon”, p.122, Rutgers University Press

topic: Honesty, Talking, People

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music,

- Akon

topic: Talking, People, Hip Hop, People Talking

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

- Al Jarreau

topic: Talking, Littles, Messages

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

- Al Pacino

source: "Pacino's way" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2004.

topic: Talking, Years, Way

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

- Alain Resnais

topic: Talking, Way, Communicate

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

- Alain-Rene Lesage

source: Alain-Rene Lesage (2011). “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane”, p.549, The Floating Press

topic: Women, Passion, Talking

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

- Alan Bradley

topic: Growing Up, Tired, Talking

I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.

- Alan Cumming

topic: Depression, Fog, Talking

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

- Alan Furst

source: Alan Furst (2008). “Dark Star: A Novel”, p.35, Random House

topic: Dog, Believe, Talking

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Talking, Today, Economy

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.

- Alan K. Simpson

topic: Talking, Racism, Liberty, Statue Of Liberty

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

- Alan Rickman

topic: Talking, Bored, Actors

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Talking, Topics, Los Angeles

There is another side to me which people don't often see, but it's very hard for me to show that. When I do interviews, I'm talking to people I don't know and when you speak to a stranger you don't open up, do you? In my position, people are always looking for something to say about me. And anything I do say, given half-a-chance they'll turn it round into something spectacular so I've got to be very careful. That's why it's only my friends and family who know the real me. Now my wife, Lainya, she could tell you a few stories.

- Alan Shearer

source: Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

topic: Real, Talking, People, Real Me

The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.

- Alan Watts

source: Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

topic: Thinking, Talking, Tomorrow

To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.

- Alan Watts

topic: Thinking, Discovery, Talking

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

- Alan Watts

topic: Art, Thinking, Talking

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

- Alasdair Gray

topic: Thinking, Talking, Leader

Think of it like the best mac and cheese you've ever had. No neon yellow Velveeta and bread crumbs. I'm talking gourmet cheddar, the expensive stuff from Vermont that crackles as it melts into the crust on top. Imagine if right before you were about to tear into it, the mac and cheese starts talking to you?

- Alaya Dawn Johnson

topic: Thinking, Talking, Yellow, Cheddar, Bread Crumbs

Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

- Alber Elbaz

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Talking, High Fashion, Roast Chicken

If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.

- Albert Brooks

topic: Talking, Life And Death, Way

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

- Albert Camus

topic: Talking, Rivers, Long, Long Speeches, Colorless

You will never have to talk religion to anyone; men will see it talking in your life! You will radiate a positive influence at all times, which will in turn bring you happiness and health in good measure.

- Albert E Cliffe

topic: Life, Men, Talking, Positive Influence

We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.

- Albert Hadley

topic: Strong, Talking, Design

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

- Aleksandar Hemon

topic: Self, Talking, Pity, Self Pity

I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Inspirational, Player, Talking

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

- Alex Haley

source: "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in TIME magazine, February 14, 1977.

topic: Family, Talking, Earth, Lineage

For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.

- Alex Steffen

topic: Talking, Cities, Impact, Energy Use

Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

- Alex Van Halen

topic: Thinking, Talking, Mind, Thinking Alike

Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.

- Alexander Ovechkin

source: "Caps' Ovechkin says he is not ready to wear the 'C'". The Chronicle Herald, September 06, 2006.

topic: Talking, People, Perfect

I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on. I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

- Alexander Payne

topic: Brother, Thinking, Talking, Orchestration, Warner Brothers

Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

- Alexander Payne

topic: Honesty, Distance, Talking

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Â Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

- Alfie Kohn

topic: Teacher, Talking, Listening

You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it is that when you're talking to those people, you don't care about your movie anymore. You just want to hear about what they have gone through. You want all of the details. It's amazing.

- Alfonso Cuaron

topic: Real, Writing, Talking

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

- Alfred Jarry

source: "That Ubu that you do" by Mike Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

topic: Communication, Talking, Mind

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

- Alfred Kazin

topic: Talking, Affair, Love Affair

The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities. So that for example, no mathematical truths apply merely to fish, or merely to stones, or merely to colours. So long as you are dealing with pure mathematics, you are in the realm of complete and absolute abstraction. . . . Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Moving, Talking, Long, Moving In

Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.

- Alice Cooper

topic: Honesty, Talking, Doubt

even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things ...

- Alison Lurie

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Talking, Clothes, Bed

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

- Alistair Cooke

topic: Writing, Typewriters, Talking

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

- Allan Houston

source: "Allan Houston's biggest swish". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 19, 2011.

topic: Talking, Band, Want, Keep Talking, Band Aid

When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.

- Allen Iverson

topic: Running, Talking, Negativity

Iverson: Man look, I hear you... it's funny to me too, I mean it's strange... it's strange to me too, but we're talking about practice man, we're not even talking about the game... the actual game, when it matters... We're talking about practice ...

- Allen Iverson

topic: Mean, Men, Talking

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

- Allen Tate

source: allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

topic: Talking, Knowing, Poet

People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.

- Allison Pearson

source: Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

topic: Thinking, Talking, Years, Indelible

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

- Alma Guillermoprieto

topic: Thinking, Talking, Two, Two Personalities

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.

- Alonzo Mourning

topic: Reality, Two, Talking

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

- Alphonse Karr

topic: Eye, Talking, Two

I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about

- Alton Brown

topic: Grief, Talking, Fake, Sommelier

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.

- Alvin Toffler

topic: Science, Talking, Together, Change Management, Future Shock

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Talking, Ideas, Soldier, Malthus, Exponents

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Army, Thinking, Talking, Warships, Admiral

I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime.

- Amor Towles

source: Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

topic: Talking, People, Giving

Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.

- Amor Towles

source: Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.34, Hachette UK

topic: Talking, Missing, Polite

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

- Amy Grant

topic: Eye, Talking, Way, Public Eye

I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.

- Amy Hempel

topic: Thinking, Hands, Talking

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Thinking, Talking, Listening

We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?"

- Amy Poehler

topic: Talking, Bars, Stories

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Sexy, Talking, Symmetry, Funny Sexy

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.

- Analeigh Tipton

topic: Talking, Band, My Favorite, Favorite Bands, Talking Heads

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

- Anatole Broyard

topic: Book, Reading, Talking

You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there's more and more opportunity to never be where we actually are and just be.

- Anderson Cooper

topic: Opportunity, Talking, People

I don't have much experience, but the few times when I would go on a date with a girl - like when I was 12 - there was a lot of sharing, and a lot of talking, and a lot of asking how I am. They thought we were dating, and I was sort of hoping to meet their brothers.

- Anderson Cooper

topic: Girl, Brother, Talking

I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

- Anderson Cooper

topic: Loss, Thinking, Talking

Talking to your hairdresser is almost like talking to your therapist,

- Andie MacDowell

topic: Talking, Therapists, Hairdresser

There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.

- Andre Agassi

topic: Inspirational, Strong, Talking

I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: Italian, Japan, Talking, Italian Cooking

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

- Andrea Corr

topic: School, Talking, People

The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!

- Andrea Jung

topic: Unique, Talking, Games

People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases.

- Andreï Makine

topic: Rain, Talking, Weather, Fine Weather, Vocal

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

- Andrew Greeley

topic: Talking, Stories

I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

- Andrew Mason

topic: Talking, Strange, Used

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

- Andrew McCutchen

topic: Determination, Talking, Our Actions

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

- Andrew Miller

topic: Mean, Loss, Talking, Talking And Listening, Hearing Loss

Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

topic: Talking, Generations, Mail, Checkers, Current Generation

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.

- Andrew Shue

topic: Soccer, Teacher, Talking, Soccer Coach

We do a lot of talking with our mouths, but we don't necessarily realize the signals we give out physically with our body posture when we're talking to people.

- Andrew Stone

source: Source: www.bbc.co.uk

topic: Talking, People, Giving

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

- Andrew Sullivan

topic: Gay, Talking, People

In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

- Andrew Sullivan

topic: Talking, Skills, Academia, Talking To Yourself

The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.

- Andy Cohen

topic: Fun, Talking, Housewife

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

- Andy Dick

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Spiritual, Talking, Rehab, Advisors

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

- Andy Murray

topic: Talking, Tennis, Feelings, Talking About Yourself

I let the other guys handle the talking. I love playing.

- Andy Pettitte

topic: Talking, Guy, Other Guys

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Education, Talking, Should

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

- Ani DiFranco

topic: Government, Talking, Imagination

If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything,

- Anish Kapoor

topic: Talking, Skins, Sculpture

Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.

- Anita Hill

topic: Sex, Talking, Want, Graphic

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Talking

They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Talking, Literature, Terrorist

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

- Ann Landers

topic: Communication, Talking, May, Effective Communication

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.

- Ann Landers

topic: Funny, Children, Talking

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.

- Ann Romney

topic: Talking, Political, Privilege

Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.

- Ann-Marie MacDonald

source: Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

topic: Brother, Father, Talking, Sydney

I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show...

- Anna Gavalda

topic: Thinking, Talking, Bored, Inner Demons

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

- Anna Kendrick

topic: Thinking, Talking, Games, Of Context, Misinterpreted

Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

- Anna Nicole Smith

topic: Men, Talking, Years

Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Talking, Addiction, Smoking, Conundrums

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.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: School, Kids, Talking, Attending, School Reunion

I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl?

- Anna Sui

topic: Girl, Thinking, Talking, Good Girl, Talking About Someone

Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision.

- Anna Wintour

source: "WWD CEO Summit: Anna Wintour in Conversation With Leslie Moonves" by Erik Maza, wwd.com. October 30, 2013.

topic: Fashion, Talking, Decision, Unsure

I think possibly what people working for one hate the most is indecision. Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. The most important thing I can do is try and make myself very clearly understood.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Hate, Thinking, Talking

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

- Anne Bancroft

source: "Actor Anne Bancroft dies at 73". www.abc.net.au. June 08, 2005.

topic: Talking, People, Miracle, Dismay, Miracle Worker

We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.

- Anne Carson

source: "The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson". Interview with Sam Anderson, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

topic: Struggle, Mean, Talking

I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?

- Anne Enright

topic: Thinking, Phones, Talking, Different Voices

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking

- Anne Enright

source: Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.55, Random House

topic: Talking, Doe, Drink

Im much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Flirting, Talking, People

I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement...knowing that I'm talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who's interested in the big idea here is very, very important to me. I think if it were just about helping me get to the next step, it would be a heck of a lot less interesting.

- Anne Sweeney

topic: Encouragement, Thinking, Talking, Talking To Someone

When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if it were my living room and although I am keyed up I am not anxious. I feel as if I were doing what I should be doing - the feeling I have when intent in my studio.

- Anne Truitt

topic: Art, Moving, Talking, Speak Now

It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

- Anne Ursu

source: Anne Ursu (2011). “Breadcrumbs”, p.5, Harper Collins

topic: Talking, White, Perfect, Geometric

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

- Annie Baker

topic: Talking, Play, People, Between The Lines

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

- Annie Barrows

source: Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.7, Dial Press

topic: Book, Talking, Receiving

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

- Annie Leibovitz

topic: Artist, Thinking, Talking, Stay With Me, Being Straightforward

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

- Annie Leibovitz

topic: Artist, Talking, Cameras

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

- Annie Leibovitz

topic: Thinking, Talking, Helping

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

- Annie Leibovitz

topic: Talking, Watches, Goes On

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Talking, Matter, Shows, Omelets

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

- Anthony DeCurtis

topic: Talking, Want, Guides

Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Cheesy Love, Talking, Forever

Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.

- Anthony Jeselnik

topic: Mean, Talking, Silence

Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-line.

- Anthony Weiner

source: YouTube Channel "Douglas Johnston"/"Weiner says anyone from BP with a British accent is lying", www.youtube.com. June 07, 2010.

topic: Media, Talking, Lines, Briefing

You could say that the Hell's Angels have a bad reputation, then you talk to a biker, and he's trying to join it. It just depends upon who you're talking to about reputation.

- Anton Newcombe

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Angel, Talking, Trying, Bad Reputation

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

- Anton Yelchin

topic: Couple, Dark, Talking

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

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Talking, People, Personality, Almodovar

My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while... you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Change, Couple, Talking, Spanish And English, Common Things

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

- Antony Gormley

topic: Depressing, Talking, Journalist

Besides film, I'd like to be the young Regis. That would be great. Going back and forth from L.A. to New York. Doing stuff on food. Doing stuff on kids. Just talking about issues that are relevant. Doing things on the Olympic Games.

- Apolo Ohno

topic: New York, Kids, Talking

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?

- Ariel Gore

topic: Happiness, Artist, Talking, Depressive, Manic

You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.

- Arlo Guthrie

topic: Art, Taken, Talking, Taking Advantage

We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things.

- Arlo Guthrie

topic: Mother, Father, Talking, Groovy, Social Taboos

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

- Art Bell

source: "Art Bell: Radio's Master Of The Unexplained Explains Himself". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. April 20, 2009.

topic: Talking, Bored, Week

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

- Art Buchwald

topic: Talking, Political, Television, Rich Person

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

- Art Donovan

topic: Art, Talking, Laughing

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

- Arthur Balfour

source: 1926 Speech in the House of Commons, 7 May.

topic: Talking, Years, Class, Working Class

Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. We [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.

- Arthur C. Brooks

source: "Q&A: 'The Conservative Heart'" by Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.

topic: Optimistic, Opportunity, Talking, Lifting Up, Lifting

How do you feel about a person when you're talking over the phone? If you know them, or if you don't know them, do you get something, do you put that into words of your own, from what they say, or from what you think? Or if it were music over the radio, have you ever tried to think how it would look?

- Arthur Dove

topic: Thinking, Phones, Talking

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

- Arthur Miller

topic: Inspiration, Talking, Newspapers, Newspaper Reporters, Good Journalism

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Art, Talking, Paper

I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know...

- Arthur Miller

topic: Talking, Nitrogen, Done

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

- Arthur Ransome

topic: Lakes, Talking, Sea

I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.

- Artie Shaw

source: "Stephen King's Wife Spins P'Cola Yarn". Interview with Sam Baltrusis, www.inweekly.net. June 15, 2006.

topic: Running, School, Talking, Keep Talking, Talking About Money

Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy." Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest. Perhaps because of the way Chacko said it. Infinnate Joy. With a church sound to it. Like a sad fish with fins all over.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Niece, Reading, Talking, Fins, Reading Aloud

We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition...

- Asger Jorn

source: Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

topic: Art, Talking, Cognition, Abstract Art

You guys are always going off about how much money you have. Do you realize what's going on in this world right now?' All these black rappers? African rappers? Talking about how much money they have. Do you realize what's going on in Africa right now? It's just like, you guys are disgusting. Talking about billions and billions of dollars you have. And spending it frivolously, when you know, the Motherland is suffering beyond belief right now.

- Asher Roth

source: "Echo Chamber: Asher Roth" by Amy Phillips, pitchfork.com. April 29, 2009.

topic: Rapper, Talking, Guy, Motherland

I'm serious when I'm talking to the press because I'm always on guard because I never know what you're going to ask and I never know how you're going to construe my answer, so I try to maintain a pretty even pace when I'm speaking with the media.

- Ashton Kutcher

topic: Media, Talking, Trying

I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're talking about magnetic poles.

- Ashton Kutcher

topic: Thinking, Talking, Opposites, Opposites Attract

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.