The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games. ~By John Hume ~
We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable. ~By Liv Ullmann ~
Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at. ~By Jessica Hahn ~
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. ~By Evan Parker ~
Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail. ~By Amy Winehouse ~
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. ~By Plutarch ~
If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay. ~By Charles Dance ~
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. ~By John Guare ~
I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig. ~By Marilu Henner ~
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music. ~By Tipper Gore ~
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Only votes talk, everything else walks. ~By Dan Rather ~
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ~By Fran Lebowitz ~
If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him. ~By Brian Lumley ~
There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things. ~By Tim Robbins ~
Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face. ~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant. ~By Kristen Bell ~
I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience. ~By Jay Roach ~
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became. ~By Jill Scott ~
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share. ~By Lisa Bonet ~
I'm guarded; I don't talk much. ~By David Byrne ~
When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor. ~By Cedric Hardwicke ~
An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening. ~By Marlon Brando ~
I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor. ~By Peter Jurasik ~
I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need. ~By Thomas Haden Church ~
I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone. ~By Joichi Ito ~
We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco. ~By Sarah Palin ~
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. ~By Verne Troyer ~
Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her. ~By Judy Davis ~
As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything. ~By Boris Kodjoe ~
We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development. ~By Siobhan Davies ~
Cedric, man, it's like if I'm working with you, like I'm sitting here now talking to you, I want to get along with you. That's how I am. I feel like if I get along with you, the work will be splendid. ~By Mike Epps ~
Don't talk - keep it in your heart. ~By Duke Kahanamoku ~
Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago. ~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
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. ~By George Thorogood ~
If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination. ~By Michael Moriarty ~
The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates. ~By Ian Botham ~
I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress. ~By Warren Christopher ~
I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day. ~By Richard Pryor ~
Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly. ~By Leah Remini ~
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. ~By Brad Sherman ~
The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that. ~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day. ~By John Mayer ~
Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was. ~By Jenny Agutter ~
Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were. ~By Donal Logue ~
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. ~By Bob Saget ~
I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts. ~By Marion Zimmer Bradley ~
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. ~By LaToya Jackson ~
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. ~By Fran Lebowitz ~
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. ~By Mike Myers ~
When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person. ~By Red Barber ~
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me. ~By Annie Leibovitz ~
I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker. ~By Ed Koch ~
I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything. ~By Richard Briers ~
If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. ~By Johnny Depp ~
And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay. ~By Morris Chestnut ~
The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference. ~By Martina Hingis ~
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. ~By Steven Pinker ~
Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
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! ~By Trevor Rabin ~
I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to. ~By Dabney Coleman ~
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. ~By Crystal Waters ~
That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better. ~By Leo Kottke ~
One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears. ~By Michael Flanders ~
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. ~By Gwendolyn Brooks ~
I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you. ~By Kate Hudson ~
I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled. ~By Dennis Farina ~
Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing. ~By Gil Gerard ~
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. ~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things. ~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious. ~By Rodney Carrington ~
To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line. ~By Nelson A. Miles ~
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. ~By Thomas Sowell ~
You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year. ~By Neil Abercrombie ~
I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it. ~By Keith Emerson ~
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. ~By Marilyn Monroe ~
One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty. ~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
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. ~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something. ~By Ralph Fiennes ~
My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems? ~By Dan Miller ~
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. ~By Jules Shear ~
I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores. ~By Joss Whedon ~
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. ~By David Foster Wallace ~
It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views. ~By Heather Matarazzo ~
I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years. ~By Steven Cojocaru ~
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it. ~By Willard Van Orman Quine ~
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds. ~By Mason Cooley ~
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about. ~By Truman Capote ~
Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing. ~By Steve Mariucci ~
I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means. ~By Reba McEntire ~
It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians. ~By Frank Morgan ~
You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host. ~By Dan Abrams ~
I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny. ~By Michele Bachmann ~
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. ~By Carl Friedrich Gauss ~
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. ~By Martha Gellhorn ~
I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics. ~By Bjork ~
When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment. ~By Laurel Clark ~
I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series. ~By Jackie Collins ~
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. ~By Kin Hubbard ~
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