My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.
~By Mary Todd Lincoln ~
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.
~By Johnny Rivers ~
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
~By George Harrison ~
In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
~By Trey Parker ~
I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.
~By John Jewel ~
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him.
~By Thierry Henry ~
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
~By Ross Perot ~
It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.
~By Cybill Shepherd ~
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
~By Loretta Young ~
We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.
~By Sean Booth ~
It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
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.
~By Henry Villard ~
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
~By Mandy Moore ~
The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.
~By Christopher Walken ~
I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
~By Frances Farmer ~
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.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?
~By Sharon Stone ~
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
~By Sargent Shriver ~
In some cases I feel like they haven't appreciated enough that growing up doesn't mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also.
~By Jody Watley ~
When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.
~By Sarah Palin ~
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
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.
~By John Shimkus ~
When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.
~By Roy Ayers ~
I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.
~By Tom Petty ~
Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.
~By Zach Wamp ~
Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.
~By Jay Chiat ~
Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
~By Jet Li ~
I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.
~By Nick Carter ~
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
~By Robert Benchley ~
We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no.
~By Andrea Mackris ~
Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.
~By Jared Leto ~
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
~By Ann Beattie ~
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
~By Pam Grier ~
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 ~
Don't make excuses and Don't talk about it. Do it.
~By Melvyn Douglas ~
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 ~
For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.
~By Adrian Belew ~
What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.
~By Bob Kane ~
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
~By John Cusack ~
Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
~By Thomas Szasz ~
You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.
~By Patricia Hewitt ~
I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level.
~By David Milne ~
My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, you get the dogs. I'll talk to the hot blondes.'
~By John C. McGinley ~
Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.
~By Chris Brown ~
The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency.
~By Robert C. Solomon ~
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.
~By Josh McDowell ~
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
~By Casey Kasum ~
It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.
~By Alain Prost ~
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 ~
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
~By Barry McCaffrey ~
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 ~
Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else.
~By Frances Rodman ~
I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.
~By Judith Rossner ~
I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
~By Pete Sampras ~
It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.
~By Stuart Symington ~
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
~By David Attenborough ~
I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
~By Roland Joffe ~
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
~By Marya Mannes ~
For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.
~By John Hench ~
Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.
~By Chris Matthews ~
I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
~By Michael Douglas ~
The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.
~By Gale Gordon ~
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.
~By Tom Bergeron ~
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
~By Brian Clough ~
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 ~
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.
~By Jason Schwartzman ~
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
~By Harlan Ellison ~
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
~By Willie Mays ~
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.
~By Mickey Rourke ~
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.
~By Michael Lewis ~
I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
~By Harold Ford ~
If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
~By Jim Henson ~
I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!
~By Richard Fleeshman ~
If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.
~By Jeff Goldblum ~
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.
~By Stone Gossard ~
We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.
~By Eliza Dushku ~
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