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 ~
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.
~By Paul Lynde ~
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.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
How time files when you's doin' all the talking.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.
~By John Tesh ~
I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.
~By Isaac Mizrahi ~
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'
~By Laozi ~
We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.
~By Christine Keeler ~
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
~By Abdallah II ~
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
~By Brownie McGhee ~
You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.
~By Adam Sandler ~
I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look at his watch, and he didn't allow his campaign aides to cut it off.
~By Robert Scheer ~
When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.
~By Henry Winkler ~
He who talks much cannot talk well.
~By Carlo Goldoni ~
Rich folks always talk hard times.
~By Lillian Smith ~
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
~By Pearl Bailey ~
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
~By Mike Myers ~
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.
~By Neil Jordan ~
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.
~By Amy Grant ~
Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
~By Aaron Stanford ~
It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.
~By Richard Neal ~
What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
~By Bill Delahunt ~
We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
~By Charles Schumer ~
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.
~By Henry Rollins ~
You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
~By Lee Trevino ~
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
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.
~By Jena Malone ~
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 have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
~By Dorothy Day ~
Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
~By Ian Allison ~
Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
~By Casey Kasem ~
I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.
~By Kiana Tom ~
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
~By Ron Chernow ~
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
~By Margaret Halsey ~
I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.
~By Haley Reinhart ~
George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
~By Steven Wright ~
I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
~By Temple Grandin ~
Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.
~By Christo ~
Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.
~By Jerry Pournelle ~
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
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.
~By Aaron Spelling ~
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.
~By David Cronenberg ~
I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.
~By Lee Trevino ~
It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.
~By Sela Ward ~
I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.
~By Robert Teeter ~
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
~By Judy Collins ~
My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.
~By Amanda Lear ~
I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
~By Daisy Berkowitz ~
When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.
~By Craig Bruce ~
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
~By Sydney Smith ~
We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.
~By Peter Hook ~
And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
~By Barry McGuire ~
To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.
~By Placido Domingo ~
I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.
~By Trish Stratus ~
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
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.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.
~By Mel Tillis ~
I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.
~By Paul Haggis ~
I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
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.
~By Reggie White ~
I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.
~By Robert Teeter ~
I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black.
~By Octavia Butler ~
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.
~By Kid Rock ~
One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.
~By David Icke ~
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.
~By Alvin Toffler ~
I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.
~By Rachel Hunter ~
They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
~By Ma Rainey ~
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.
~By Troy Vincent ~
Always do something that requires you and your date to talk.
~By Steven Hill ~
Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.
~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
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.
~By Anita Hill ~
I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.
~By Stephanie Beacham ~
Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.
~By Jessica Hahn ~
We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
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.
~By Fred Ward ~
Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.
~By Joe Lando ~
I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.
~By Julian Clary ~
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
~By John Philpot Curran ~
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
~By Sam Levenson ~
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.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
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.
~By Dan Marino ~
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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.
~By Tim Robbins ~
There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.
~By Pierre Salinger ~
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.
~By Richard Cobden ~
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
~By Anna Wickham ~
Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.
~By Ernie Banks ~
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
~By John Dryden ~
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